Sustainability

Automation

DOE Awards Nearly $3 Million to Develop Additive Manufacturing of Modular Wind Blades

The industry partners received the award to develop automation in additive manufacturing of tooling for large-scale wind blades that can accommodate continuous changes in blade geometry and scale.  

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Metal

ValCUN’s Minerva Printer Offers Easy-to-Use, Sustainable Metal Additive Manufacturing

Formnext 2023: ValCUN’s Minerva Printer for metal additive manufacturing enables metal to be deposited in a single-step process, using off-the-shelf metal as feedstock.

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PostPro SFX Desktop Vapor Smoothings Enhances Parts’ Visual, Functional Properties

Formnext 2023: This desktop chemical vapor smoothing machine features a compact benchtop design, making it well suited for R&D and low-volume prototyping projects.

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Formnext

Formnext Start-Up Challenge Announces 2023 Winners

Winners of the 2023 Formnext Start-up Challenge include titanium recycling, new 3D printing technologies and medical applications.

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Construction

Shape Lab Develops MyCera to Reinforce 3D Printed Clay Structures

Mycelium is an intelligently oriented fiber reinforcement that can increase the structural performance of 3D printed unfired clay elements and enable bio-welding of fired elements.

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Sustainability

Markforged’s Digital Source Platform Enables Printing Parts On-Demand

The platform enables manufacturer-certified parts to be licensed and printed at the point of need.

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LPBF

Multimodal Powders Bring Uniform Layers, Downstream Benefits for Metal Additive Manufacturing

A blend of particle sizes is the key to Uniformity Labs’ powders for 3D printing. The multimodal materials make greater use of the output from gas atomization while bringing productivity advantages to laser powder bed fusion and, increasingly, binder jetting.

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Metal

Video: Multimodal Powders for Metal 3D Printing

Rather than uniform particle diameters, multimodal powders combine particles of different sizes. In this video, how and why Uniformity Labs produces multimodal metal powders for additive manufacturing. 

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Space

6K Additive, Agile Space Industries Partner to Advance Moon Mission

6K Additive’s Nickel 625 powder is being qualified for use in Agile’s A2200 engine to leverage additive manufacturing for engine lightweighting while also delivering tremendous power.

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Materials

The AM Ecosystem, User Journeys and More from Formnext Forum Austin: AM Radio #43

Sessions and conversations at the first U.S. Formnext event highlighted the complete additive manufacturing ecosystem, sustainability, the importance of customer education, AM user journeys and much more. 

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