BellaSeno 3D printed breast implants enter human trials in Australia
German medical device manufacturer BellaSeno has announced that its proprietary 3D printed breast implants have entered human trials.
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German medical device manufacturer BellaSeno has announced that its proprietary 3D printed breast implants have entered human trials.
A cornea 3D printed at India’s L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has been successfully animal tested for the first time.
Titomic Limited, a global cold spray additive manufacturing technology company with primary applications in aerospace and defense, and also the company that is creating radiation shielding for Fleet Space’s first Alpha satellites in 2023, has signed an agreement with Repkon Foreign Trade and Marketing Inc., a sister company of Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade Inc., that will see the company become an official reseller of Titomic systems within Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia – key Middle Eastern markets.
ASTM International has been awarded funding from the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a roadmap for guidance and adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies in the construction sector.
Aston Martin has chosen the 2022 Monterey Car Week to unveil the spectacular DBR22 for the first time: a V12-engined two-seater coach-built design concept, celebrating the marque’s extraordinary bloodline of open-cockpit sports racers. Among other key innovations, the DBR22 features a 3D printed rear subframe.
Building code regulators at the US state level in Montana have made history as the first to approve 3D printed walls as an equal replacement for walls made with concrete masonry units (CMUs), or a standard cored concrete block. The approval was granted to Tim Stark, a contractor based in Billings, Montana, after filing documents, specifications, and testing reports developed by Apis Cor, the Florida-based construction technology company that holds the Guinness World Record for the largest (volume) 3D printed building globally.
Maritime non-profit Island Missions Support has begun using a Slice Engineering hotend to produce more robust 3D printed prosthetics for amputees in isolated areas of Guatemala.
According to Geeetech, many consumer FDM printers, that are currently available on the market, are quite slow – which is the angle the company is using when marketing its new THUNDER high-speed 3D printer, which is expected to launch by early September, on Kickstarter (for early birds). Geeetech’s THUNDER 3D printer will come with a notably high printing speed, an all-metal body design, a “super strong cooling system”, and a large printing volume.
Xenon arc and Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, have launched Braskem3D – an advanced direct-to-consumer technology platform that greatly simplifies and accelerates the accessibility of Braskem’s 3D materials to the North American market. This latest innovation will provide a strategic platform for growth to help support the growing demand for the company’s unique line of sustainable and innovative products.
Titomic Limited has received a stock order from mining engineering company, Brauntell – a Titomic Authorised Service Provider and Reseller – for D523 cold-spray Systems for an amount of AUD 395,000.