Things are heating up in the AM industry, with lots of webinars and events coming this week! Stratasys continues its training courses and road trip, and some major industry events will be held, including the Smart Manufacturing Experience, TCT 3Sixty and ADDIT3D. There will also be open houses and demonstration days galore, so read on for all the details! 3D Printing News Unpeeled Our Executive Editor Joris Peels, who’s also the Vice President of Consulting at Additive Manufacturing Research (AMR), offers a news livestream one to two times a week called 3D Printing News Unpeeled at 9:30 am ES ..read more

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with sustainability research on AM feedstock from AMGTA, and then on to an aluminum alloy with enhanced mechanical properties. University students built an award-winning, low-cost, cold spray metal 3D printer prototype, and some proposed ASTM International standards focus on cementitious materials for additive construction. Finally, RepRap pioneer Richard Horne created a full-scale 3D printed replica of a classic arcade game. AMGTA Releases Research Results on Metal AM Feedstock Sustainability Photo courtesy of Carpenter Additive Launched in 20 ..read more

Back in 2020, Michigan nonprofit Automation Alley, an advanced manufacturing accelerator, was one of a number of organizations that recognized that the pandemic had put a premium on bringing manufacturing closer to the point of need. As such, Automation Alley launched Project Distributed, Independent, Agile Manufacturing on Demand (DIAMOnD), which in the last five years has invested $25 million to lower the barrier-to-entry for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), located in three counties in the Detroit metro area, who are looking to adopt additive manufacturing (AM). Now, in a ..read more

MRO and digital inventories is a quickly growing area. Now classification/advisory firm ABS has partnered with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), powder bed fusion OEM CScam and technological institute KITECH in a joint development agreement (JDP) to make a digital inventor solution. This is a notable alternative to the Wihelmsen and Thyssen created Pelagus3D. In this case the focus will be on the on board manufacturing of repair parts and spares. I don´t think that putting a powder bed fusion printer on a ship is a good idea, but apart from that love everything about that. Australian cold spray ..read more

Surgeons at Yale School of Medicine pioneered the first fully in-house 3D surgical procedure to fix a misaligned bone near the wrist. Dr. Lisa Lattanza, Chair and Ensign Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, led the surgery, using 3D printed guides and models to plan and execute the operation with high precision. She also collaborated with engineers to customize the surgical approach, reducing surgery time and improving precision and patient recovery. First in-house, custom, personalized 3D surgery at Yale of a distal radius malunion repair. Lattanza, renowned for her pioneering wo ..read more

Honeywell provides turbine propulsion engines for helicopters, business aircraft, and military trainers, and has been using additive manufacturing at its lab in Phoenix for over 15 years. It now produces hundreds of aircraft components, including the first 3D printed, FAA-certified, flight-critical engine part back in 2020. This part was an important structural component in the ATF3-6 turbofan engine, and the company is currently working to develop a new family of turbofan engines that will be more lightweight, quieter, more powerful, and able to run on fully sustainable aviation fuel. Honeywe ..read more

Stratasys‘ (Nasdaq: SSYS) first quarter results of 2024 were mixed. The company saw strong sales of consumables, indicating that customers are heavily using its printers, which boosts recurring revenue. Improved profit margins show that Stratasys is managing its costs well. It also reported positive cash flow and strong demand for its new F3300 system from major customers like Nissan and BAE Systems. However, total revenue fell, operating losses increased, and net losses grew compared to last year. Additionally, the company posted a loss per share, missing earnings expectations and highlightin ..read more

Given the significant impact that industrial farming of animals has on both the livelihood of those creatures and the Earth itself, there is a growing movement to turn to new sources of protein, such as insects. There could possibly be no better time to consider eating bugs than the current cicada infestation taking place in the Midwestern U.S. However, getting your average Midwesterner to eat an insect is much harder than you might think. Just ask my four-year-old kid. For that reason, some researchers have been exploring the incorporation of powdered insect protein into foods. While such ing ..read more

University of Texas at Arlington architecture Professor Shadi Nazarian is heading up a consortium to 3D print cork and concrete in Alaska. The light, well insulating composite should be well suited for the area and with partners the Xtreme Habitat Institute (XHI), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Denali Commission, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and the Rasmuson Foundation and her own company X-Hab 3D she hopes to make an impact.   BMW Motorrad has a new BMW R20 concept bike that included a 3D printed LED headlamp ring. The Philippines Department of Science a ..read more

Himed, a US manufacturer of bioceramic materials, and ceramics 3D printing leader Lithoz have announced a joint venture meant to combine their respective areas of expertise, the Bioceramics Center of Excellence (BCoE) at Himed’s headquarters in New York. This center aims to advance R&D in bioceramics for medical device manufacturers by integrating advanced analytical services to expedite rapid prototyping processes. Since its founding in 1991, Himed has been dedicated to biomaterial coating characterization, starting with hydroxyapatite coatings and apatitic abrasives. Himed’s New York res ..read more