News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Intrepid Automation, a manufacturing technology company that develops custom, end-to-end solutions for large-scale manufacturing customers using 3D print technology and materials, has launched their ‘Valkyrie’ system – a large-format, industrial-grade, modular tool for manufacturing customers to quickly scale the production of printed patterns, molds, and parts.
Quickparts, a global leader in on-demand custom parts manufacturing for 3D printing and traditional manufacturing with six global design and production centers around the world, has become a Foundation Partner with Nexa3D, the maker of professional and industrial polymer 3D printers, on Nexa3D’s Quantum Laser Sintering (QLS) platform, the QLS 820.
MakerBot and Ultimaker, two leaders in desktop 3D printing, have successfully completed the merger of the two companies. Under the new brand – UltiMaker – the company aims to provide easy-to-use and accessible 3D printing hardware, software, and materials for any application, driving the industry to a future state of responsible and sustainable manufacturing.
Kevton Technologies, a subsidiary of Houston-based contract manufacturer Kevton Industries, has acquired seven Sapphire 3D printers from Velo3D to provide its customers with high-quality, additively manufactured parts. The purchase is one the largest ever with Velo3D from a contract manufacturer and will make Kevton Technologies one of the top suppliers of additively manufactured parts relying on Velo3D’s laser powder bed fusion technology. The first two Sapphire printers are scheduled to begin producing parts for customers in Q1, 2023 in Kevton’s Houston, Texas facility.
Cementos Progreso is leading the way for 3D concrete printing in Latin America with the installation of the first COBOD International 3D construction printer in Guatemala.
Last month, the university of Pittsburgh became the first university in the US to have a Gefertec arc605 on campus. The arc605 is a state-of-the-art, 5-axis metal 3D printer, developed by Gefertec, a 3D printer manufacturer based in Germany.
HP 3D printing’s new Metal Jet S100 Solution was officially launched at the 2022 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). Now commercially available on a global scale, the new metal binder jetting system has been developed over the past four years to accelerate innovative designs and products and digitally print mass quantities of quality parts, transforming industries and helping scale 3D metals to mass production.
Optomec Inc., a leader in metal additive manufacturing solutions, and Acme Manufacturing, a global leader in robotic material removal systems, are set to showcase an industry-first, fully automated work cell, initially optimized for repairing aviation compressor blades made of titanium. The turnkey work cell is the product of a two-year collaboration between the companies working with input from commercial maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) and US DoD repair centers for aircraft engines.
DBZ (Divide by Zero Technologies), one of India’s leading 3D Printer manufacturers, has launched AION NX, the next frontier in large format hybrid 3D printing. The AION NX system addresses the needs of pattern and mold makers, large component manufacturers of the automobile, defense, aerospace, and innovators in the Research & Development sectors. With the largest bed size in its class, custom extrusion heads and hybrid machining capabilities, the AION NX allows manufacturers to print large components of up to 1 metre in a single setting.
As extrusion LFAM technologies continue to grow in adoption, with larger machines, improved capabilities and ever more powerful tools, CARACOL AM, a company that has been at the forefront of this revolution since it began, is ready to take flight towards an entirely new phase of its growth, on the wings of its new HERON cluster system.