In Italy, a company leveraging additive manufacturing technology to enhance consumer and sporting goods has seen the tennis racket dampener as an opportunity. For where there is a part that absorbs shock, there is often a role for additive to play.
Though the parts may be tiny, the buzz around additive manufacturing (AM) in consumer electronic devices is huge. Smartphone manufacturer Honor has also been busy working with several AM companies on its HONOR Magic V2 foldable phone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
