News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Prodways, a French 3D printing company owned by Groupe Gorgé, has launched a new DLP 3D printer through its own subsidiary Solidscape Inc. The machine, the SolidscapeDL, marks the first 3D printer launch for Solidscape since it was acquired by Prodways six months ago.
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Dutch 3D printing company FELIXprinters has launched its newest 3D printer model, the Pro 3. The new machine, targeted at the professional 3D printing market, introduces a number of new features inspired by customer demand.
In September 2018, French 3D printing company Prodways appointed Stefano Rebecchi as its new Marketing Manager. With an extensive technical background and having previously served as Product Manager for Prodways, Rebecchi is working to set up a more concrete marketing strategy for the company, based less on the brand itself and more on the AM products, their characteristics and possible new fields of use.
With CES 2019 kicking off today, we’re expecting a ton of news and product launches in the consumer electronics sector, some of which will inevitably overlap with the additive manufacturing industry. In fact, we’ve already gotten wind of a few 3D printing-related launches taking place at the Las Vegas event.
Massive Dimension, a Vermont-based company specializing in large format 3D printing, recently released a new pellet head extruder, the MDPH2. The new product, a direct print pellet head extruder specifically developed for large format 3D printing, offers higher productivity and faster print times for large-scale jobs.
EOS North America is introducing the Integra P 400 polymer Additive Manufacturing (AM) platform developed to meet customer demands specifically for the North American market. The fast, flexible powder bed AM platform gives organizations the ability to process applications using a wide range of materials that offer characteristics such as high abrasion or chemical resistance, low-temperature performance, high elasticity, and transparency.
In addition to process efficiency and material development, design is a key factor for industrializing additive manufacturing. A simulation-driven design approach has become indispensable and only the comprehensive consideration of manufacturing constraints assures a successful product development. Therefore, software company Altair has as its main goal to make performance and cost saving potential accessible in the early stages of the decision-making process.
Founded just over five years ago by three MIT graduates, today Formlabs is one of the 3D printing unicorns, the “proof” that 3D printing can democratize the future of manufacturing. In 2012 Maxim Lobovsky, the company’s CEO, drew on his experience at the MIT Media Lab with his cofounders David Cranor and Natan Linder to create the first high-quality, high-resolution 3D printer available for less than $5,000. In doing so they almost single-handedly created the “prosumer” range of 3D printing. And it all started from the Formlabs HQ in Somerville, MA.
A joint team of researchers from ETH Zurich and MIT have developed material architectures which could feasibly be the stiffest material structures possible for a given weight. The innovative lattice structures could be manufactured using additive manufacturing techniques.