Additive manufacturing can be a transformative production resource if you apply calculated intentionality and consider its use early in the design cycle.
Highlights at the Fakuma stand include thermoplastic composites, glass-replacement materials, bio-based feedstock, and a new recycling technology for polyamide.
Plastics-centric exhibits include an injection molding cell equipped with a novel digital watermarking system and advanced medical extrusion technology.
The partnership enables Clarkson College to manufacture FDA-cleared, 3D-printed, patient-specific devices onsite and make them accessible to healthcare facilities across the region.
Theradaptive’s naming of 3D Systems as its exclusive 3D-printing partner is said to represent a “technological convergence” of medical additive manufacturing and novel material-binding regenerative therapeutics.