The United States District Court for the District of Delaware has issued a ruling eliminating four patents originally asserted by Continuous Composites against Markforged in July 2021.
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has received complimentary reviews of a recently installed 3D printer on the Virginia-class attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN 778). The printer is a Markforged X7 Field Edition, a composite AM system.
Continuous Composites has announced the unveiling of its commercial CF3D Enterprise system at a ceremonial ribbon-cutting and technical symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Sheffield-based design and additive manufacturing business Addition Design has made a 100,GBP investment in Stratasys 3D printing technology. The company has received a Stratasys F370 CR FDM Composite Printer as part of its investment package.
The USPTO has ordered that no trial is instituted after denying six out of seven IPR petitions filed by Markforged after Continuous Composites sued the Boston-based company for patent infringement.
Weber State University is using 3D printing in order to advance its research on composite materials that support northern Utah’s aerospace and defence ecosystem.
The news follows previous work with the team at the Yeovil, UK-based iAero Centre which houses a suite of Markforged metal and composite 3D printing equipment.
Markforged announced in December that its materials manufacturing facility located in Billerica, Massachusetts is International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 9001:2015 certified with TUV Rheinland of North America.
Roboze announced on December 19th the latest 3D printing developments obtained from the implementation of two flagship materials, Carbon PA PRO, PA 6 reinforced with carbon fibres, and Carbon PEEK, PEEK matrix reinforced with carbon fibres.
On this week's episode, editors Laura, Sam and Oli discuss a handful of those must-read stories in more detail and the key moments that shaped the AM industry over the last 12 months.
