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Adidas unveils the new 4DFWD forward motion running shoe Consumer Products

by Consumer

Adidas has revealed the new 4DFWD, its most advanced running shoe. At the forefront of innovation, the shoe is the first to overcome a barrier that has long held runners back from reaching their full potential. Designed to move runners forward, thanks to the shoe’s industry-first bowtie-shaped lattice midsole transforming vertical pressure into a horizontal force – providing runners with a non-stop, smooth forward transition.

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OC-ALC and AFLCMC open second REACT lab with GE Industrial Additive Manufacturing

by Technologies

The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) Propulsion Directorate, along with industry partner General Electric, recently opened the Complex’s second Reverse Engineering and Critical Tooling (REACT) lab which hosts 3D metal printers procured under the Pacer Edge Program. In attendance were key stakeholders of the Pacer Edge team from the Defense Logistic Agency’s Strategic Contracts Organization, the Air Force’s Rapid Sustainment Office, and the Air Force Research Lab.

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Carbon acquires Paramatters AM Industry

by Business

Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company, has acquired ParaMatters, a software provider for additive manufacturing. This acquisition expands Carbon’s current software capabilities to include topology optimization. Carbon’s technology platform now broadens to enable product design and development teams to create better products, in less time, using a wide variety of materials and production systems.

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Loctite materials qualified for Desktop Metal’s Xtreme 8K Materials

by Business

Desktop Metal, Inc., a global leader in additive manufacturing technologies for mass production, has expanded its partnership with Henkel, on photopolymer material development, beginning with the qualification of Henkel’s Loctite 3D IND405 Black and Loctite 3D 3843 for use on the Xtreme 8K, the world’s largest Digital Light Processing (DLP) printer for high-volume production of end-use parts.

Lithoz reports most successful first-half in the company’s history Additive Manufacturing

by Business

Lithoz GmbH, a world market and innovation leader in ceramic 3D printing, has had its strongest first-half ever, in terms of order intake. By the end of the second quarter, the company had already reached two-thirds of its full-year order intake target. In view of these strong first two quarters, the company forecasts 2022 as another leading and successful year – not only for Lithoz but for ceramic 3D printing as a whole.

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Scaling composites 3D printing into a new dimension Decision Makers

by Technologies

Swiss startup 9T Labs stands out in the global 3D printing landscape for leveraging a unique process that combines extensive know-how in continuous fiber reinforced composites, additive manufacturing and tooling to target large serial production runs, across multiple market segments. Whenever a company does something unique in additive manufacturing, something that may seem too ambitious, the only way to understand its actual potential is to see it in person. After closely following 9T’s growth from the start, 3dpbm visited the company’s HQ in Zurich and spoke with Co-founder Giovanni and Yannick Willemin, Head Marketing and Business Development, to understand exactly where 9T stands today and where it’s heading, on its way to scaling composites 3D printing.