3D Printing

Essentium, a global specialist in industrial additive manufacturing (AM), has announced that the 101st Air Refuelling Wing (ARW), Maine Air National Guard are using the Essentium High-Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D Printing Platform and Essentium PCTG for printed flight control repair training aids to help maintain proficiency for traditional guardsmen.

HIT rebuilds Ukraine with 3D printing technology and deepens the word care in humanitarian aid. Envision a world where we could build refugee homes in 48 hours. Imagine a world where we could 3D print a children's school in less than a week - whose old school was bombed and unfairly targeted by war.

Zortrax is launching new products working with Zortrax Endureal industrial 3D printer: two com-prehensive sets dedicated to metal 3D printing, Zortrax Full Metal Package 17-4 PH and Zortrax Full Metal Package 316L, as well as a low-melt VICTREX PAEK AM 200 (a filament, which has a lower melting point than PEEK and can be extruded in lower temperatures).

Advancements in the 3D printing industry are accelerating at a rapid rate, and the technology’s capability is seemingly limitless. Most of these advancements are positive steps forward, and they are geared towards the betterment of society.

As electronic devices continue to evolve and shrink, so do their circuits and, ultimately, their components. This development has raised the demand for component miniaturisation.

Sculpteo has published the 8th edition of The State of 3D Printing Report, its annual global survey conducted to provide the additive manufacturing insight required to inform and improve business strategies. As part of its mission of environmental responsibility, 3D printing attempts to meet manufacturing needs by replacing traditional production resources whenever and wherever the opportunity arises.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division and Stratasys have applied Hexagon’s simulation technology to capture the behaviour of Stratasys’ high-performance, ultra-lightweight Antero reinforced polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) materials and its additive manufacturing processes. These rigorously validated simulations offer Stratasys customers unique insight so they can introduce new sustainable aircraft and spacecraft faster.

Hexagon has partnered with Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), a national research and development (R&D) centre, to provide software that will help meet a Swedish initiative to advance the use of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and accelerate the adoption of innovative and sustainable processes in European industry.

Sigma Additive Solutions, a provider of quality assurance software to the commercial 3D printing industry, announced that its PrintRite3D in-process quality assurance solution will be certified as PrintRite3D Ready to work with SLM’s industrial metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines.

Hexagon and Raytheon Technologies have partnered to deliver a simulation tool that will enable evaluation and optimisation of metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes through the prediction of thermal history and defects at the laser path and powder layer scale.