News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
LOOP 3D, a 3D printer manufacturer with a growing global footprint, has expanded its partner network through a recent cooperation with GS Project Design. The Belgian firm, which provides AM consulting and design services, will be using the LOOP PRO 3D printer as part of its versatile customer offering.
Würth Industry North America (WINA) and Baker Hughes have joined forces to expand their additive manufacturing capabilities and provide advanced design, digital inventory, and customized 3D printing services to customers in a range of industrial sectors.
Nexa3D announced the immediate availablity of an automated 3D printing selector and design optimizer called Ximplify. This support portal, powered by CASTOR, accelerates designers’ and manufacturers’ ability to adopt additive manufacturing at scale. Ximplify is part of Nexa3D’s expanding digital twin software platform NexaX, combining process and geometry algorithms and end-to-end validated workflows to identify, select and optimize tooled plastic parts and assembly candidates that are suitable for polymer additive production.
INTAMSYS reported that it has sold over 1,500 AM systems for high-performance materials such as PEEK, PEKK, PAEK and PEI to date. The Chinese manufacturer, whose name stands for INtelligent AM SYStems, has strived to make this technology industrially mature since its start in 2013. Last year only, almost 500 FUNMAT HT, the industrial entry-level system, were sold worldwide.
Copper3D, a pioneering company in antimicrobial materials for extrusion 3D printing, has lived through an intense 2020, a period that dominated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with a global effort to find effective solutions to protect people from this virus, as well as hundreds of other microorganisms dangerous to humans. Copper3D was active in infectious control development well before the Coronavirus pandemic began. The company was founded in January 2018 in Santiago, Chile, the world’s biggest producer of copper with significant experience in antimicrobial solutions based on this element.
Forward AM, BASF 3D Printing Solutions’ brand, launched a new product portfolio name the Engineering Plastic Daylight Ultracur3D. This line is created as part of a long-standing strategic partnership with Photocentric, a leading manufacturer of 3D printing equipment and photopolymer resin materials. The first two materials in the line exhibit high stiffness while retaining flexibility. They are now available for purchase.
Evolve Additive Solutions will scale up its production volumes with PostProcess Technologies’ help as the preferred support removal partner. The partnership integrates Evolve’s Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP) technology with PostProcess’s Volumetric Velocity Dispersion (VVD) technology. The concrete results of this partnership come into effect in 2021. Evolve Additive Solutions aims to bring its STEP technology into play as a volume production solution in tandem with a wider buy into Industry 4.0.
Create it REAL, a Danish 3D printing research and development hub, is now able to accelerate its market expansion thanks to securing a €3.1 million round of financing. Investo Capital, the primary investor in this round, joined the company’s existing investors, like Vaekstfonden’s department of direct investments, VF Venture. Create it REAL, founded in 2009 by Jeremie Pierre Gay, created the first worldwide real-time processor dedicated to 3D printing. Since this product was launched in 2013, the company has developed a full 3D printing system.
Wysiwyg 3D and GoProto have merged to create a unified Australian laser scanning and 3D printing service bureau. Wysiwyg’s expertise in 3D scanning enhances GoProto’s printing business, which creates a stronger manufacturing network. The partnership creates a streamlined solution at every stage of the product development cycle. This merger also highlights a growing trend in the additive manufacturing space: countries and regions prioritize AM because it enhances supply chain sovereignty.
Global materials company Tethon Corporation (dba Tethon 3D), of Omaha Nebraska USA, has named Trent Allen to Chief Executive Officer, effective November 1, 2020. Allen has been with the company for over four years and was instrumental in doubling company revenues in 2020. He was most recently President of Tethon 3D and has a decade of experience in business development, enterprise sales and strategy.