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Professor Dr. Chua Chee Kai Appointed to 3D Printing Studios Board AM Industry

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3D Printing Studios today announces the appointment of Professor Dr. Chua Chee Kai, to the board of the company as a Non-Executive Director effective from 1 October 2017. Professor Dr. Chua is a world renowned leading expert in the field of various Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques and is widely sought after and cited for his experience and knowledge in both research and industry in the area of 3D printing. With over 25 years to his credit, Professor Dr. Chua was awarded the “Academic Career Award” for his many contributions to AM or 3D Printing at the 6th International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2013) at Leiria, Portugal.

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Rize Signs Cimquest as Reseller for Mid-Atlantic and New England Region AM Industry

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Rize Inc, maker of the only 3D printing platform capable of producing injection molded-quality manufacturing parts virtually anywhere, signed Cimquest Inc. as a Rize Authorized Reseller. For many years, Cimquest has been a leading provider of Mastercam in the mid-Atlantic and New England region and, up until recently, a Stratasys Platinum Partner covering the NY metro region. However, with this announcement, Cimquest has made the strategic business decision to add the Rize additive manufacturing product line to their portfolio of 3D printer solutions.

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Impossible Objects raises $6.4M in funding for CBAM composite 3D printing Materials

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Impossible Objects raised a $6.4 million Series A investment round led by OCA Ventures and with participation from IDEA Fund Partners, a technology-focused early stage venture capital firm, Mason Avenue Investments, Huizenga Capital Management, and Inflection Equity Partners. With this latest round, Impossible Objects has raised a total of more than $9 million to finance development of its CBAM composite AM process.

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Isabelle Marelly Is the new Worldwide Director of Marketing at Massivit Marketing and Content

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Massivit 3D Printing Technologies, the leading provider of large format 3D printing solutions for visual communication applications, appointed Isabelle Marelly as Worldwide Director of Marketing. Marelly assumes responsibility for leading the continued implementation of Massivit 3D’s marketing programme to expand the company’s brand profile and value proposition across the globe.

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LSS Laser-Sinter-Service to distribute Windform materials in Germany AM Industry

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CRP Technology has established a dealer agreement with LSS Laser-Sinter-Service GmbH. Through the agreement, LSS will sell the composite SLS materials Windform XT 2.0 and Windform SP throughout the German and Austrian markets. Windform® XT 2.0 and Windform® SP are the polyamide-based carbon fiber reinforced materials from the Windform family of High-Performance 3D printing materials, created and developed by the R&D department of CRP Technology.

Techniplas to Add Sharebot XXL+ 3D Printers for Digital Transformation of Automotive Production Additive Manufacturing

Techniplas to Add Sharebot XXL+ 3D Printers for Digital Transformation of Automotive Production Additive Manufacturing

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Techniplas, a leading global design and manufacturing provider of automotive products and services, today announced that Sharebot, a maker of professional grade 3D printers joined its open innovation program. Under this partnership, Sharebot is placing several of its latest Sharebot XXL+ large format 3D printers at Techniplas’ new Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center in Ventura. By embedding 3D printed tools, jigs and fixtures that are powered by Sharebot into its factories, Techniplas plans to boost operational yields and develop next-generation cost-effective flexible manufacturing cells.