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Printing Twins: The agricultural equipment manufacturer developing a digital warehouse of back-up 3D printed parts

Three and a half years after the onset of Covid-19, people working in supply chain don’t consider what the next major supply chain disruption will be, only when it will be. It is not a source for speculation, but preparation.

By Sam Davies

/ 13 Dec 2023

Pushing Forward: How Designability uses AM to enable human-centric designs

Designability is a UK-based charity that has dedicated the last 50 years to co-designing products and solutions with disabled people to deliver greater independence.

By Laura Griffiths

/ 13 Dec 2023

Make Me, Change Me, Sort Me: The order system underpinning 3DPRINTUK's services

We step into the 3DPRINTUK offices on a gloriously sunny day in North London, the kind of afternoon where the company is getting its money’s worth out of the temperature and humidity control technology in its facility on the ground floor.

By Sam Davies

/ 12 Dec 2023

A Dollar and a Dream: Virginia Tech's use of 3D printing in a $1.5m tire retreading project

When Chris Williams – the L.S. Randolph Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech – started out as a professor 15 years ago, he couldn’t envisage that his lab would ever build bespoke additive manufacturing (AM) equipment.

By Sam Davies

/ 11 Dec 2023

Race to Space: Project Sunride's record-breaking 3D printed liquid rocket engine

A liquid rocket engine built under the Sunride Project and successfully fired as part of the Race to Space initiative is believed to be the first metallic 3D printed rocket engine to be built and successfully tested by students in the UK.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 11 Dec 2023

Ahead of the Game: Carbon's bioabsorbable 3D printing elastomers

In October 2022, Carbon announced that its developmental bioabsorbable elastomer platform had demonstrated biocompatibility in a living organism, with all samples being classified as non-toxic and exhibiting tunable times for full absorption.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 11 Dec 2023

One Shape, All Sizes: How 6K Additive's UniMelt systems yield high-quality metal powders

Frank Roberts walks into bay four, gesticulating at a metal cylinder engulfed in wiring and surrounded by scaffolding. He takes a few steps and mounts the steps on the right-hand side while detailing the workings of 6K's UniMelt plasma technology.

By Sam Davies

/ 11 Dec 2023

On The Rails: How Wabtec used SLM Solutions metal 3D printing technology to transform a pantograph manifold

Wabtec is among the premier providers of pantographs for rail systems, having installed around 3,of its CX Pantograph systems on high-speed trains around the world.

By Sam Davies

/ 11 Dec 2023

Pro Racer: Roboze speaks to TCT about the company’s partnerships with MotoGP teams

Oli Johnson speaks to Davide Schiena, Head of Application Engineering and Customer Success at Roboze, about the company’s 3D printing partnerships with MotoGP teams.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 11 Dec 2023

Hollywood Innovations: Jason Lopes & Brian McLean talk 3D printing in entertainment

On TCT’s Innovators on Innovators podcast series in August 2023, Jason Lopes [JL] of Gentle Giant Studios (and formerly of Legacy Effects) sat down with Brian McLean [BM] of LAIKA Studios to discuss the evolution of AM applications in entertainment.

By Sam Davies

/ 11 Dec 2023

What Drives You: Inside the Digital Manufacturing Centre at Silverstone

We go through the doors at the Digital Manufacturing Centre in the famous Silverstone Park to get a closer look at how it aims to drive the future of UK manufacturing.

By Laura Griffiths

/ 7 Dec 2023

Roll With The Punches: Carbon & Hayabusa on how 3D printed lattice structures are enabling boxing gloves with greater protection

Boxing, like many sports, is about maintaining the perfect balance between offence and defence. In defence, a fighter needs to be as adept at absorbing the force of a punch as their gloves are when throwing them.

By Sam Davies

/ 7 Dec 2023