Tetra Pak – a Swiss manufacturer of well-known beverage cartons, has been strongly involved in environmental protection for years. The main activities in this field include increasing the capacity to process waste from packaging, of which it is the main producer. It might seem that cardboard is just cardboard, but nothing could be further from the truth. An essential element of every beverage packaging is an internal protective layer of aluminum and polyethylene foil, commonly called “polyAl”. It is the presence of “polyAlu” that is the source of the greatest challenges in the comprehensive re ..read more

Volvo Group, product manufacturer of, among others, construction machinery, purchased a D523 Low-pressure cold spray system from Titomic for PLN 55,000. The new device is to be implemented in Volvo, responsible for updating in vehicles, mainly in trucks, but with the prospect of extensions to design engines. If necessary, the system is implemented in one of the six. This can be done so that after a successful power deployment, additional D523 devices are available at the site. For this purpose, it is necessary to use products from companies such as Rolls-Royce or MTU, i.e. leading manufacturer ..read more

Recently, we have been writing quite a lot about Desktop Metal on our website, not necessarily in an optimistic context. This time it’s about finances again, but it’s not yet clear whether it’s good or bad. Either way, as reported by 3D Printing Industry, Desktop Metal prepared an issue prospectus for financial instruments worth $250 million and submitted it to the US Financial Supervisory Commission. Now it would be necessary to decipher what exactly is behind this operation. The prospectus concerns the so-called “mixed shelf offering”, which has no direct translation into Polish, but involve ..read more

One would like to say that “we have it”. A large consumer goods manufacturer introduces a product fully made using 3D printing technology to the general public. Wilson Sporting Goods Co. is a well-known American manufacturer of sports equipment. Last year we wrote about the 3D Airless Prototype, a prototype version of what Wilson presents today under the name Wilson Airless Gen1. Sales of the new ball started on February 16 and, of course, it has already sold out, despite the staggering price of $2,500. Unfortunately, it was supposed to be a limited edition and it looks like Wilson kept […] Re ..read more

As reported by 3D Printing Industry, three related companies recently purchased shares of Stratasys, Neuberger Berman Group LLC and its affiliates, Berman Investment Advisers LLC and Rubric Capital Management LP. We only learn about this because each of them acquired more than 5% of the total shares, namely 5.61%, 5.43% and 6.15%, respectively. Due to the fact that Stratasys is listed on the American stock exchange NASDAQ, it is subject to local regulations and each entity whose value of shares in a given company exceeds 5% is obliged to report this fact to the financial supervision authority ..read more

BMW Group and Dassault Systèmes have announced the launch of a multi-year partnership. This is not a simple implementation of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at BMW, but the creation of an entire digital work environment for the engineering process at BMW, with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at its heart. More than 17,000 BMW engineers are to work on the new platform across the entire organizational spectrum, from conceptual work to the production stage. The main motivation for the development of a new platform is, as always, time. More integrated processes and improved communication are expected to shor ..read more

In February 2022, TCT Magazine reported that Collins Aerospace purchased one NXG XII 600 machine from SLM Solutions. On July 21, 2023, Collins boasted that it was expanding its facility in West Des Moines, Iowa, USA, but without further details. On February 13 this year, Nikon SLM Solutions published information that it would deliver a second NXG XII 600 printer to the same Collins facility. There’s a lot of information here, so let’s go through it one by one. Nikon SLM Solutions is well-known in the industry as SLM Solutions, a German manufacturer of metal printers. In fact, one of […] Read m ..read more

Last week we wrote about Shapeways’ sale of the Desktop Metal system. Today we are back with similar news, this time about Uniformity Labs, but in this case the circumstances of this auction seem to be much more dramatic. Uniformity Labs is an American company founded in 2014, which deals with, among others: development and production of new materials for metal printing, both in sintering and binder jetting technologies. Although it would be more appropriate to write that it dealt with it, because as of the date of publication of the article (February 15, 2024), the company’s website is unavai ..read more

Spectrum Group, one of the largest producers of 3D printer filament in Europe, has signed an agreement with Advanced Graphene Products, based in Zielona Góra, for the production of filament with the addition of graphene. Before we talk more about the cooperation, it is worth presenting the profile of AGP, because Spectrum Group is rather well-known among our readers. The company was established in 2021 as a spin-off of the Lodz University of Technology, where the current members of the company’s scientific council, prof. Piotr Kula and prof. Łukasz Kaczmarek developed technologies that are the ..read more

The last few days have brought us a lot of news in the area of materials. This time, Evonik, an important link in the supply chain of 3D printing materials, both components and ready-made solutions, presented its new product. INFINAM FR4100L resin is designed for DLP printing and can be used at room temperature. This is a certain achievement considering its parameters. This resin has a V-0 non-flammability standard according to the UL 94 standard. This standard means that the flame on the surface of the element disappears within 10 seconds and the drops of the melted material do not […] Read m ..read more