News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
The Ottawa Hospital launched the first hospital based, multi-departmental Medical 3D Printing Program in Canada. This program is aimed at improving surgical planning and enhance education and research in collaboration with the University of Ottawa.
While it is a CAD software focused event, SOLIDWORKS World is rapidly becoming one of the most important yearly appointments for 3D printing innovation as well, especially for industry leader Stratasys. The company used this platform to announce its first multi-color platform and it is now present at the 2017 edition to announce the disruptive F123 series: a low cost, high quality 3D printer series leveraging on advanced and professional Stratasys FDM technology.
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. (OPM), a leader in advanced materials science and high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM), today announced that it has closed on an additional round of strategic investment from Hexcel Corporation. In May 2016, OPM and Hexcel announced an initial strategic investment from Hexcel of $15 million. The second round of investment from Hexcel is $10 million, for a total equity investment of $25 million to date.
Desktop Metal, an emerging startup with the mission to bring metal 3D printing to all design and manufacturing teams, announced today it has raised a total of $97 million in equity funding since its founding in October 2015. The announcement comes as the result of the latest Series C investment of $45 million, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), as well as BMW i Ventures and Lowe’s Ventures. Desktop Metal will use the funding to continue to develop its technology and scale production as the company prepares for its product launch later this year.
Carpenter Technology Corporation, a leading producer and distributor of premium specialty alloys, today announced the execution of a definitive asset purchase agreement for the purchase of substantially all of the assets and business of Puris LLC (“Puris”), a producer of titanium powder for additive manufacturing and advanced technology applications, for $35 million. The assets and business to be acquired include Puris’ titanium powder operations and business, additive manufacturing assets, patents and related intellectual property.
Xometry, a leading on-demand manufacturing marketplace, has secured new funding from GE Ventures and existing investors, including Highland Capital Partners, to reach a total of $23 million raised. The Xometry’s software platform has transformed American Manufacturing by orchestrating a network of Small and Medium Size manufacturers across the USA
After some challenging times 3D Systems seems once again on the rise. Now the company wants you to join it and become part of disrupting, transforming and impacting the future. For that it is currently looking to fill as many as 81 positions, mostly in its South Carolina headquarters and the division in Leuven, Belgium (formerly Layerwise).
The 19th Annual SOLIDWORKS World event, dedicated to 3D Design and the Engineering Community features top speakers, customer testimonials, 200 Interactive training sessions, 100 exhibitors and a lot of 3D printing.
The traditional fruit bowl is reimagined with curiosity and humor by Saif Faisal Design Workshop, from Bangalore, India. Crafted in black or white 3D Printed Porcelain this Numbered Edition takes advantage of the 3D printing process to create a durable porcelain form only viable with this technology.
As part of GE vision to explore ways of implementing 3D printing technologies in manufacturing processes, the company decided to acquire Roboze’s flagship product – the Roboze One+400 industrial 3D printer, for producing and testing durable 3D parts from 13 different types of high thermoplastic materials for advanced applications.