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Protolabs thinks this methane-sniffing drone is a Cool Idea

June 19, 2019

The latest recipient of a Cool Idea award from Protolabs (Maple Plain, MN), Sniffer Robotics (Ann Arbor, MI) has developed a drone that monitors landfill emissions. It brings safety, reliability and accuracy to what historically has been a labor-intensive process.

Evonik partners to develop 3D printing materials for selective thermoplastic electrophotographic process

June 18, 2019

3D Printing

Aerospace, Consumer Electronics, Automotive and Mobility, Consumer Products, Materials

Stephen Moore

Evolve Additive Solutions will join forces with the materials supplier to enhance material development for selective thermoplastic electrophotographic process (STEP) to offer a wider range of thermoplastic material for production of additive manufacturing applications.

3D printing deployed to make flight-ready aircraft parts

June 16, 2019

3D Printing

Automotive and Mobility, Materials

Stephen Moore

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group is also building essential ground-running equipment on the Stratasys Fortus 450mc 3D printer in tough polyamide 12 resin at lower cost than aluminum production.

Electric cello and shock-absorbing helmet liners win 3D-printing technical contest

June 13, 2019

3D Printing

Automotive and Mobility, Consumer Products

Norbert Sparrow

Find out all about the prize-winning entries in the Technical Competition organized by the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (Milwaukee, WI) by clicking through this slide show.

HP's 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain

HP opens massive 3D printing and digital manufacturing center in Barcelona

June 12, 2019

3D Printing

Automotive and Mobility, Consumer Products, Medical

PlasticsToday Staff

Approximately the size of three football fields, the 150,000-square-foot facility brings together hundreds of the world’s leading additive manufacturing experts “to transform the way the world designs and manufactures,” said HP (Palo Alto, CA).

Vicki Holt, President and CEO of Protolabs

The manufacturing revolution will be digitalized

June 10, 2019

PLASTEC East

Injection Molding

3D Printing, Business, Consumer Products, Medical

Norbert Sparrow

Digitalizing manufacturing accelerates development cycles and prototyping and enables companies to move quickly into production, ultimately helping them to meet the needs of today’s consumers, according to Vicki Holt, President and CEO of Protolabs (Maple Plain, MN).

Bioprinter headed for space station called ‘milestone’ in quest to 3D-print human organs

June 07, 2019

Medical

3D Printing

PlasticsToday Staff

Techshot Inc., a company headquartered in Greenville, IN, that develops technologies for the aerospace, defense and medical industries, has teamed up with 3D-bioprinting firm nScrypt (Orlando, FL) to create the first 3D printer capable of producing human tissue under microgravity conditions.

Industrial-scale 3D-printing soars to new heights

May 26, 2019

Medical

3D Printing, Automotive and Mobility, Consumer Products, Materials

Norbert Sparrow

Innovations in additive manufacturing took center stage last week, when Rapid + TCT landed in Detroit. This slide show features some of the breakthrough technologies introduced by BASF, Materialise and Jabil, among others.

SmileDirectClub largest U.S. producer of 3D-printed parts using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion technology

May 21, 2019

Medical

3D Printing

Clare Goldsberry

SmileDirectClub (Nashville, TN) is disrupting the $12-billion orthodontics industry with affordable, personalized, and sustainable 3D production of mouth molds.

Why Moore's law matters in advanced manufacturing

May 21, 2019

Digitalization is revolutionizing the manufacturing space, and as computing power increases while costs come down, manufacturers are able to buy “more-capable machines for less money that are easier to use,” said Michael Jacobs, President and CEO of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (Orion, MI).

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