Australian sleep apnoea specialist, Oventus Medical opens a new 3D printing facility to help advance its research into solutions for snoring. Oventus will continue to work on its O2Vent device, which optimises the intake of air and reduces snoring.
The 3D prints will be showcased in the permanent collection at the Design Museum London’s new home on Kensington High Street. Digits2Widgets were commissioned to print the models, originally designed by Pritzker Prize-winning, Zaha Hadid Architects.
Leading plastic and metal additive manufacturing company, 3T RPD has announced the opening of a new metals AM production site. The new facility is based near the company’s current facility on the Greenham Common Airbase in Berkshire.
Californian additive manufacturing company, ALT LLC has announced it will launch an Indiegogo Campaign to recycle plastics for high performance 3D printing filament, after it realised AM methods introduce plastic waste into landfills and waterways.
Olympia Entertainment is putting its ambitious plan to breathe life into downtown Detroit in place with a a new multi-purpose stadium. 3D printing accelerated the redevelopment project, being used to create two scale models.
Vert Rotors, a producer of miniature compressors from composites based on its proprietary technology, has created the world’s smallest high-pressure clean air compressor using 3D printing - the first real innovation in this technology for a century.
Branch Technology, a company committed to modernising the architecture industry, has justified its intentions with a 3D-printed open air children’s pavilion in Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee.
Melbourne-based large-format 3D printing company Omus has helped Louis Vuitton become the first business in the world to construct a 3D-printed point-of-sale location. The pop-up store was created using Massivit 1800 3D printers in just two weeks.
Fashion designer, Danit Peleg, who uses 3D printing to create innovative custom clothing, has been selected in Apparel Magazine’s Top 30 Under 30 list. Peleg has been consistently committed to incorporating technology into her fashion design.
Advanced Fusion Plastic Modelling is said to deliver superior form and filament compared to other additive techniques, such as SLS, FDM and FFF, and thus produce output which is more accurate.
Fusion3 has announced a significant expansion of the number of materials its flagship F400 3D printer can support. The announcement comes as the 3D printer manufacturing company continues to build on its open material philosophy.
Two US science and technology national laboratories have been awarded $5 million from the United States Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). AMO believe metal alloys have lagged behind that of plastics and polymers.
