News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
As reported by By Birgitte Dalgaard, on the University’s official blog, researchers from SDU (the University of Southern Denmark) have succeeded in 3D printing artificial bones that grow naturally together with the body’s own bones. In mouse experiments the artificial 3D printed bone even formed marrow. This opens up completely new possibilities for patients who need bone implants.
On 10th August, Shanghai Graphic Digital Information Co., Ltd. (GDI) and EnvisionTEC GmbH co-organized the first EnvisionTEC 3D Bioplotter resellers’ meeting holding at GDI Headquarters.
Shapeways Co-Founder and CEO Peter Weijmarshausen will step away from his CEO role while remaining on the Shapeways board. COO Tom Finn has been appointed interim CEO while the Shapeways board conducts a search for a permanent replacement.
The purmundus challenge 2017 now has a theme: “Fusion – 3D printing intelligently combined”. This competition is once again teaming up with formnext powered by tct to invite the creative minds out there to enrich our lives with their ideas for innovative 3D-printed products. Organized in collaboration with the german design studio by the same name, the purmundus challenge is geared toward designers, engineers, and programmers, including those from universities, design agencies and studios, start-ups, and SMEs.
Film and TV effects studio Artem had a chance to stretch their model making skills by building shells for live hermit crabs in Zoopla’s creative new advertising campaign, “Crab World”.
Bibus Menos, the longest-running distributor of professional 3D Printers in Poland, does not need to be introduced to industry representatives. The company is operating, among others, in the fields of pneumatics, mechatronics, industrial automation, power hydraulics and 3D Printing, consistently offering products of over 50 recognized world manufacturers. The Bibus Memos portfolio has just been enriched with VSHAPER industrial 3D Printing solutions.
With the participation of NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Steve Jurczyk, Made in Space showed the latest test results on the Archinaut project and gave a demonstration of the Extended Structure Additive Manufacturing Machine (ESAMM), with a tour of Made In Space’s robotics room.
Organovo, the leading publicly traded bioprinting company, reported fiscal first-quarter total revenue of $1.0 million, which consisted largely of product and service revenue. Total Organovo revenues increased 11 percent versus the comparable period of fiscal 2017. Net loss was $10.1 million, or $0.10 per share, for the fiscal first quarter of 2018, as compared to $8.8 million, or $0.09 per share, for the fiscal first quarter of 2017. Negative Adjusted EBITDA(2) for the first quarter was $7.5 million, as compared to $7.1 million for the prior-year period.
3D Printing market leader Stratasys reported that revenues for its second quarter of FY 2017 was $170.0 million, a negligible decrease compared to $172.1 million for the same period last year. As far as profits go, the results are generally positive: GAAP gross margin was 49.1% for the quarter, compared to a GAAP gross margin of 46.2% […]
In anticipation of her participation at the upcoming IN(3D)USTRY congress, we recently caught up with Stefanie Brickwede, Deutsche Bahn’s Head of AM, to speak about how the transport company has and continues to integrate 3D printing into its train manufacturing and maintenance processes.