News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
3D printing company Stratasys announced it is downsizing its global workforce due in part to the impact of COVID-19 and the consequent economic slow down. The decision to transition to a “leaner operating model” will reportedly affect about 10% of the company’s employees.
In a planned leadership transition, experienced chief executive, Gulf War veteran and pilot James D. Taiclet, 60, today became president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Jim Taiclet succeeds Marillyn A. Hewson, 66, who has served as chairman, president and CEO since 2014 and president and CEO since 2013. Taiclet will continue to serve as a member of the corporation’s board, which he joined in 2018. Hewson will become the Executive Chairman of the board and provide ongoing support for the leadership transition.
AREVO, a Silicon Valley company startup transforming composites production through digitalization and automation, is building one of the world’s largest high-speed continuous carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites MaaS additive manufacturing facilities.
Rocket Lab, one of the space industry’s unicorn startups, successfully launched its Electron rocket to deliver a payload of satellites to orbit in the Don’t Stop Me Now mission. Rocket Lab is known for its massive use of additive manufacturing in the production of the Electron rocket’s propulsion system, the Rutherford Engine. The rocket launched, as scheduled, on June 13th, from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
San Francisco company Origin is one of a handful of 3D printing companies that set out to develop and mass produce 3D printed nasopharyngeal testing swabs for COVID-19 diagnosis. This effort was a direct response to a lack of conventional swabs; stores of the traditional swabs, only produced by a select group of companies around the globe, were rapidly depleted as countries around the world ramped up COVID-19 testing.
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Wematter’s office-friendly Gravity SLS printer just got a new software upgrade, with Deep Space 2.0. This increases productivity in a variety of ways for designers, hospitals, orthopedics and production technicians who want to take their CAD-models to the prototype stage or final production.
Photocentric, a UK-based specialist in photopolymer resin 3D printing , has penned a deal with the UK Government to supply over 7.6 million 3D printed protective face shields to health and care staff in the National Health Service (NHS). The company will utilize its patented LCD Screen 3D printing technology to mass produce the PPE, at a rate of millions of units per month. The company also says it has plans to produce up to 500,000 parts a day, if needed.
Wematter’s office-friendly Gravity SLS printer just got a new software upgrade, with Deep Space 2.0. This increases productivity in a variety of ways for designers, hospitals, orthopedics and production technicians who want to take their CAD-models to the prototype stage or final production.