Academia, Research & Development

Metal 3D printing powder company Elementum attracts SCOA investment

Additive manufacturing research and development company Elementum 3D has received investment from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas through its Series A funding round.

By TCT Team

/ 13 Jan 2020

Academia and industry players combine to set up additive manufacturing research cluster in Bavaria

The Technical University of Munich (TUM), GE Additive, Oerlikon and Linde have formed an additive manufacturing cluster to conduct research into and develop additive manufacturing technology in Bavaria, Germany.

By TCT Team

/ 9 Oct 2019

GE Oerlikon Linde TUM Representatives from all four organisations at the signing of the letter of intent in December 2018.

SLV Halle invests in GEFERTEC arc405 3D Metal Print machine

German research institution SLV Halle has invested in GEFERTEC’s arc405 3D Metal Print (3DMP) machine to explore the application of the technology for industrial components.

By TCT Team

/ 20 Aug 2019

New bioprinting method brings researchers one step closer to 3D printing human heart

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University publish paper detailing “critical steps” on the path to 3D printing a functional adult-sized human heart.

By TCT Team

/ 7 Aug 2019

FRESH platform enables 3D printing of collagen (Source: Carnegie Mellon University)

Sigma Labs announces MTC membership

Sigma Labs has been named a member of the Manufacturing Technology Centre, the UK’s National Centre for Additive Manufacturing.

By TCT Team

/ 26 Feb 2019

Prodways announces sale of Rapid Additive Forging system to research institute

Prodways has announced the second sale of its Promaker RAF 50, which is powered by the Rapid Additive Forging technology the company launched back in 2017.

By TCT Team

/ 31 Jan 2019

Virginia Tech engineers develop new 3D printing method for piezoelectric materials

Virginia Tech team develop way to 3D print piezoelectric materials that can be custom-designed to convert movement, impact and stress from any directions to electrical energy.

By TCT Team

/ 22 Jan 2019

Virginia Tech engineers develop new 3D printing method for piezoelectric materials

Brandenburg University of Technology installs Lunovu metal additive manufacturing machine

Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) has invested in and installed a Lunovu GmbH Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) machine.

By TCT Team

/ 7 Jan 2019

Lunovu LMD system Lunovu LMD system - Lunovu

GE Additive and University of Sydney sign ten-year metal additive manufacturing agreement

GE Additive has signed a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Sydney to accelerate metal additive manufacturing throughout Australia.

By TCT Team

/ 13 Dec 2018

GE Additive x University Sydney MoU Left to right: Debbra Rogers, CCO, GE Additive, Professor Laurent Rivory, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney, Christine Fur...

Additively manufacturing fluoropolymers

Carlo Campanelli, PhD Researcher, Additive Manufacturing CDT, Faculty of Engineering at University of Nottingham on the potential for fluoropolymers in AM.

By TCT Team

/ 22 Nov 2018

Thin, laser-sintered fluoropolymer sheet (Tm ~ 300ºC) showing good flexibility.

CRIQ installs GE Additive Arcam EBM machine to assist with customised jaw implant production

A Canadian research organisation has recently installed an Arcam EBM Q10plus machine as it looks to explore the additive manufacture (AM) of patient-specific jaw implants.

By TCT Team

/ 23 Oct 2018

Render of a lower jaw implant. Render of a lower jaw implant. - Quentin Schneider, 3D modeling lab, CHU de Quebec.

Pushing additive manufacturing to the molecular limit

New research proves advanced materials containing molecules that switch states in response to environmental stimuli can be made with 3D printing. Victor Sans explains.

By TCT Team

/ 9 Aug 2018

Artistic conceptual representation of the 3D printing of molecularly functionalised photochromic devices. - Ella Marushenko Studio