News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Metal 3D printer manufacturer One Click Metal entered a partnership with Impac Systems Engineering (ISE) for distribution of the BOLDseries 3D printer in 9 US states. One Click Metal will thus benefit from its new partner‘s extensive expertise in the additive manufacturing field, characterized by a highly qualified service network.
Rapidia, the manufacturer of a water-based metal paste bound metal 3D printer, has applied a considerable reduction to the price of their Conflux 1 metal 3D printing hardware as part of their mission to make advanced manufacturing more accessible.
Optomec CEO, Dave Ramahi, has sadly and unexpectedly passed away. Yesterday, the company issued the following statement: “It is with intense sadness that we announce Dave Ramahi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Optomec, died unexpectedly of natural causes at his home in Boston, Massachusetts. Optomec’s Board of Directors, its management team, and its employees extend their deepest sympathies to Dave’s family. He will be remembered for the personal compassion and boundless energy he brought to the company and its customers. He will be deeply missed by many across the industry.”
Applied Research Associates (ARA), a research and engineering firm headquartered in New Mexico, has awarded faculty in the University of Arkansas’ College of Engineering nearly $3.5 million to study the most expedient ways to 3D print horizontal mission structures for the US military, according to the university’s news outlet. The $3.5 million sub-award comes as part of a larger $12 million award ARA received from the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Nexa3D has acquired XYZprinting‘s laser sintering technology, channel and worldwide customer base, rounding out its own high-end industrial polymer laser powder bed solutions (represented by the quad laser QLS 820 system) with XYZ’s more affordable MfgPro230xS and MfgPro236xS systems and expanding its material library.
Jabil Inc. has teamed with KAV Sports to create made-to-order, personalized bicycle helmets that deliver superior comfort and protection using custom-engineered materials and additive manufacturing. Recognized by Time Magazine as one of the ‘best inventions of 2022’, the KAV Portola helmet is made from custom nylon carbon-fiber material – engineered by Jabil – to meet exacting standards for performance and aesthetics.
A recent study by COBOD International has found that there are 129 3D printed buildings spread over 105 distinct construction sites, globally – 40% (51 buildings) of which exist thanks to COBOD’s 3D construction printers. The company with the second highest number of 3D printed buildings is Icon, with 15 3D printed buildings, followed by Winsun, Cybe, and xtreeE – each being responsible for the construction of five 3D printed buildings.
At the recent AM Strategies 2023 conference, in New York, Voxel Matters caught up with Alexey Dubov, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Mighty Buildings – a Californian company that was founded and went through the Y Combinator program in 2018 (W18) that is transforming the way we make homes, using some of the latest manufacturing technologies.
The Digital Builders Association, a Non-Profit Trade Association exclusively serving the Global Digital Construction Industry, launched its first State of the Industry Summit, a two-day online event that will take place on March 30-31, 2023.
Oqton, a software provider helping manufacturers increase innovation and efficiency by intelligently automating production, has entered a partnership with Farsoon Technologies, a global manufacturer and supplier of industrial-level polymer and metal LPBF systems. The combination of the technology leadership and expertise of these two organizations is intended to enable a complete manufacturing workflow – from design through to production – within a single software solution.