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Accessible Metal 3D Printing Startup Desktop Metal Closes $115 Million in Series D Funding AM Industry

by Business

Desktop Metal, the Massachussetts based company committed to making accessible metal 3D printing a reality for manufacturers and engineers, completed a $115 million Series D investment round to further accelerate the company’s rapid business growth and adoption of its end-to-end metal 3D printing systems. Since its inception in October 2015, Desktop Metal has raised a total of $212 million in financing, with the Series D marking the largest individual private round for a metal additive manufacturing company.

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Ukranian Chef Uses 3D Printed Molds to Make Best Custom Desserts Yet AM Software

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Dinara Kasko is a 28 year old pastry chef from Ukraine. She graduated from the University of Architecture and Design and worked as an architect-designer and a 3D visualization artist. At some point she combined her talent with her passion for patisserie and started to model her own moulds, to print them with 3D printer and create custom desserts. Her latest creation is a 3D printed geometric cherry cake which was featured in SoGood Magazine.

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SmarTech’s First Report on Space Industry AM Forecasts $5.5 Billion Market by 2027 Aerospace

by Aerospace

SmarTech Publishing, the leading industry analyst firm in the 3DP/ additive manufacturing market has just issued a new report titled, “Additive Manufacturing for Space Industry Applications: from Earth to Orbit and Beyond”. In this first Space Industry AM report, the firm projects that the yearly value of AM manufactured parts in the space industry will reach $4.7 billion, driving nearly $1 billion in yearly sales of AM equipment, software and materials.