Automotive & aeronautics

World's largest 3D printed aerospike rocket engine completed

It is likely the most complex additive manufacturing part ever produced as it broke all conventional workflows. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Designs BRAND: Hyperganic

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Commerce & industry

Reduce the carbon footprint in the production of footwear with 3D printing on textiles

Covestro, textile technology company Huafeng and green fiber technology company Cyclone from China have jointly developed a solution to produce high-quality running and sports shoes in a much more sustainable way than before: recycled fabric made from CYCLONE® recycled polyester (rPET) yarns is used as the shoe upper and selectively coated using Huafeng's HAPTIC® technology. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Fashion BRAND: Covestro

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Commerce & industry

The great competitive bet of the Biden administration: promoting additive manufacturing

The US wants to create an alliance of companies that bet on 3D printing, AM Forward, which will help reduce costs for families by improving the competitiveness of the country's small and medium manufacturers, creating and maintaining well-paying manufacturing jobs and improve supply chain resilience. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Industry and Maintenance

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Health & medicine

They create synthetic fur with hair that has functional 3D sensors

For the first time, scientists at Chemnitz University of Technology and Leibniz IFW Dresden develop a new approach for the miniaturization of highly integrated, ultra-compact, soft sensor units for directional touch sensitivity in e-skin systems ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Scientific laboratory BRAND: TU Chemnitz

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Investigation & design

3D technology that returns movement

A custom 3D-printed sensor bracelet allows people with hand problems to regain motor control of their hands ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: New advances BRAND: University of Sydney

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Impresoras 3D

NUBURU and Essentium Partner to Launch the First Blue Laser-Based Wire Feed Metal 3D Printers

Companies commence partnership to utilize NUBURU’s high power, high brightness blue laser technology and Essentium’s metal additive manufacturing platform to speed metal part production ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Manufacturers and Distributors BRAND: Essentium

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Impresoras 3D

Filaments to print in 3D realistic prostheses

Available in three skin tone colours: pale pink, medium brown and dark brown, this version of varioShore TPU is particularly suitable for printing prosthetics and orthotics ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Consumables BRAND: colorFabb

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Health & medicine

Deciphering the origins of the spinal column thanks to 3D technology

EMBL Barcelona scientists have recapitulated for the first time in the laboratory how the cellular structures that give rise to our spinal column form sequentially ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Medical advances BRAND: EMBL Barcelona

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Commerce & industry

3D printing is now part of your style

Liq Eyewear joined the 3D Incubator in 2019 to develop 3D-printed glasses and accessories. The Liq Eyewear range of sunglasses obtained the Bronze Delta ADI FAD recognition for industrial design in 2020. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Fashion BRAND: 3D Incubator

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Commerce & industry

GE looks to 3D printing to build more efficient wind turbines

First of its kind research in the US: experimenting with new production methods to make wind turbine towers more efficient and sustainable ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Building BRAND: GE Additive

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