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Canada’s Burloak Technologies to open Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Oakville, ON 3D Printing Service Providers

Burloak Technologies, a Canadian leader in additive manufacturing, has announced its plans to open an Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Oakville, Ontario. The company, acquired last year by Canadian metal manufacturing company Samuel, Son & Co., says the new AM facility will launch in September 2018 and will be fully operational by the first quarter of 2019.

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Italian startup Moi Composites now providing CFM printing services for thermosetting composites Materials

Italian startup Moi Composites is now providing 3D printing services using the innovative Continuous Fiber Manufacturing (CFM) process developed by +LAB from the Politecnico di Milano. The award winning continuous fiber technique—it won the 2017 JEC Innovation Award and was a finalist for the 2017 James Dyson Award—was born through +LAB’s Atropos project and has formed the basis for Moi Composites.

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Additive Industries partners with ANÁLISIS Y SIMULACIÓN to accelerate metal AM in Spain AM Industry

At the opening of the Addit3D exhibition & conference in Bilbao, part of the BIEMH international Machine Tool Exhibition, Additive Industries has signed an Agency Agreement with ANÁLISIS Y SIMULACIÓN, a leading supplier of software solutions for product development and 3D as well as 3D printing solutions. Joinly the partners will accelerate the implementation of metal additive manufacturing systems in the high-end industries like aerospace, automotive, medical and (high-tech) machine building. Focus is on an integrated approach from initial design to a post-processed ready part.

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Wires Glasses: 3D printing gives eco-friendly edge to London-based luxury eyewear brand Consumer Products

Wires Glasses, a London-based eyewear brand, is breaking the mold with its innovative and fashion-forward glasses designs. The company, founded in 2016 by designer Yair Neuman, model/actor/entrepreneur Lily Cole and entrepreneur Kwame Ferreira, deftly combines handcrafting techniques, modern technologies and an ecological sensibility in the creation of its unique wireframe eyewear.

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Liquid Printed Pneumatics: BMW & MIT reimagine car interiors with adaptable 3D printed inflatables 3D Printing Processes

Arguably one of the most cutting-edge niches of the additive manufacturing sector is the development of dynamic and changing printed structures. Sometimes referred to as 4D printing, we’ve seen researchers 3D print self-folding structures and other smart, shapeshifting materials. A recent development coming out of MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory has demonstrated a new type of dynamic printing which integrates pneumatics for inflatable 3D printed objects.