Peter Gedeon

Directed energy deposition (DED) technology is increasingly demonstrating the potential for use in 3D printing large-scale metal parts, particularly for the aerospace sector. Now, Germany’s MT Aerospace wants to further standardize DED 3D printing through the establishment of a European competence center for 3D printing large structures. To accomplish this goal, the company has acquired … Read more

The big story in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is the postponing of the Materialise World Summit. Then we’ll finish with a little business news, as 3D PRINT UK is moving to expanded premises. Finally, starting this week, you can get QUANT-U’s 3D printed silicone midsoles at ECCO’s flagship Zürich store for a limited time. … Read more

Liuzhou JingDa Automotive Brake Tube Manufacturing Co., is a leading supplier for SAIC Motor for break tubes for both Micro and Passenger cars. Mr. Bian, the technical director of JingDa, says that 3D printing is certainly having a tangible impact on how break tube engineers create solutions that improve the effectiveness of production lines while … Read more

Just over a week ago, specialty chemicals and 3D printing materials company Evonik announced the introduction of a new software tool for additive manufacturing (AM). Developed by Castor, an Israeli start-up in which Evonik’s Venture Capital invested in late 2019, their new 3D screener offers a software technology that assesses a part’s printability, recommends the … Read more

Both Max and I were honored to have Marie Langer as our guest in this episode of the 3DPod. Marie is the CEO of EOS the leading firm in sintering of both polymers and metals. For the past decades, EOS has lead the way in commercializing sintering (L-PBF) for manufacturing and prototyping. Now the firm … Read more

Drug testing and screening for cancer drug discovery can take years and the 2D cell cultures and animal models used to estimate their efficacy before reaching human trials are often not representative of the human body, which is why researchers are turning to bioprinting technologies to increase the success rate during human trials by providing … Read more

After several years of research and a genius idea, Belgian startup Aerosint has accomplished its goal of multi-metal powder bed fusion (PBF). The company shared the news that, after printing separate components made of 316L stainless steel and CuCrZr (copper chromium zirconium) in a single build, it had successfully 3D printed a single part made … Read more

From demonstrating proof of concept to testing the viability of a new part, prototypes are an essential part of the design process. Advancements in rapid prototyping technology, including processes like CNC machining and SLS rapid prototyping, have completely revolutionized the way that engineers review, test, and display their final designs. What is rapid prototyping? Rapid … Read more

International researchers are delving further into the manufacturing of patient-specific medications, outlining their findings in ‘Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printing of Orally Disintegrating Printlets Containing Ondansetron.’ Experimenting with a new type of tablet, the authors found that they were able to make a product similar to commercially manufactured pills used for treating cancer. A pill … Read more

The Additive Manufacturing industry is a male-dominated industry, with 85.5% of professionals being male, according to the recently released 2019 Additive Manufacturing Salary Survey by Alexander Daniels Global. The report shows that females represent 13% of the AM professionals, and 1.5% prefer not to say. However seemingly low, the percentage of women in the AM … Read more

Researchers from China assess the further potential for the smartphone in medical applications, outlining their findings in ‘Evaluating phone camera and cloud service-based 3D imaging and printing of human bones for anatomical education.’ Historically, training on real bodies is one of the best ways for medical students to learn—but cadavers are often not available globally. … Read more

If you close your eyes and meditate hard enough, plunging yourself into a deep transtemporal trance, you may be able to conjure up your ancient ancestors wielding a mighty hammer to smash and shape a hot piece of iron against an anvil. The world’s oldest recorded metalworking process, forging still exists today, albeit in a … Read more

A friend took a broken part of his old boat out of his pocket.  “Can you fix this?” he asked me. It was a complicated aluminium die-casting from the cold end of the engine’s heat exchanger.  A tab with a hole for one of the fixing screws had sheared off, and the decades had not … Read more

This year’s Additive Manufacturing Strategies, held in Boston and co-hosted by SmarTech Analysis and 3DPrint.com, featured a Startup Competition, interesting keynotes, multiple panels and presentations, and industry forecasts by SmarTech. But something new at the 2020 event was a dedicated metal 3D printing track. I listened to an interesting presentation by Brett Harris, the Product Manager, … Read more

Open Bionics is a company located in Bristol, United Kingdom, that develops affordable and assistive devices to enhance the human body. Founded by Samantha Payne and Joel Gibbard in 2014, the company started by introducing stylish bionic arms called “Hero Arms”, and, later on, they started developing upper limb prostheses such as grippers, hooks, and … Read more

Quick Answer Box: Russian Cats with 3D Printed Prosthetic Paws What happened? Two Russian street cats, Ryzhik and Dymka, received four 3D printed titanium prosthetic paws each after suffering severe frostbite in Siberia. Who performed the surgery? Veterinarian Dr. Sergei Gorshkov and his team at the BEST Veterinary Clinic in Novosibirsk, in collaboration with researchers … Read more