News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Essentium, Inc., announced obtaining a new United States’ Air Force (USAF) contract, which will drive the USAF’s adoption of AM in its maintenance regime. The contract cuts across maintenance tasks. It targets the development and deployment of advanced additive manufacturing (AM) solutions for applications in tooling, ground support, maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO), and […]
EOS partnered with Texas A&M University to provide a professional development program in the field of industrial 3D printing. Using a combination of virtual learning with conventional training methods, EOS and Texas A&M University’s AM training program offers a hands-on, expert-led training program to meet evolving industry needs and challenges.
PostProcess Technologies Inc., the first and only global provider of automated and intelligent post-printing solutions for industrial 3D printing, has now scaled its distribution into four continents with the signing of BV Products in Australia. In their position as a long-standing innovator in mass finishing equipment and process technology, BV Products will leverage PostProcess’s data-driven post-printing solutions to deliver dramatic workflow benefits to Australian and New Zealander additive manufacturing users.
G.W.Consultancy is ready to strengthen its presence in Europe. The Germany-based consultancy specializes in carbon composite production, additive manufacturing, Kaizen, and offers extended consultancy services to support research and development of customer projects as well as benchmarking with Somos PerFORM Reflect and Somos Next with an in-house Viper Si². Now, G.W. Consultancy has established a partnership with UK-based AT 3D-SQUARED.
Optomec has acquired Huffman, a North Carolina company that has established a leadership in supplying 3D metal printing systems for additive repair of gas turbine components in the energy and aviation markets. Huffman’s equipment and software are in production at virtually all major manufacturers of aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines, who use its metal deposition capabilities to restore worn or damaged components at substantially lower cost than newly-made spare parts.
UK-based FDM Digital Solutions and Italian 3D printing company Roboze are now working together thanks to the Xtreme3DParts project, with the vision of transforming traditional manufacturing in the aerospace, F1, automotive and industrial sectors, through high performance 3D printing technologies and materials.
Korea Aerospace Industries Association (KAIA) Chairman Jowon Kim and Incheon Industry-Academy Collaboration Institute (IIACI) director Chang-Kyung Ryoo signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GE Additive’s APAC general manager Czek haan Tan on Monday October 15, 2018.
Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based digital 3D manufacturing company, today announced the addition of partners Bright Plastics, Dependable Plastics, Diversified Plastics, Element Packaging, Gallagher Plastics, Nicolet Plastics, Prattville Machine & Tool, and Resolution Medical to its Carbon Production Network, which now includes more than 20 U.S. partners and is rapidly growing.
Xometry, the largest on-demand manufacturing platform, has acquired MakeTime, another leading on-demand manufacturing company. This acquisition brings together the country’s two top manufacturing network platforms. The combined company will operate under the Xometry brand name and have offices in Maryland and Kentucky.
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) plans to establish a new manufacturing innovation center in Harford County, Maryland. Focusing on developing next-generation industrial additive manufacturing, materials, and processes, this facility will house leading engineers and the world’s most powerful production technology. Collaboration at the center will lead to scientific breakthroughs in metallurgy and plastics, as well as the launch of new factory machinery that will transform the way U.S. producers make aircraft, automobiles, munitions, medical devices, and other products.