Protolabs expects to ‘substantially complete’ this restructuring plan within the next year, with affected employees receiving severance and other transition assistance.
Throughout the next two years, Ursa Major will transition its copper additive manufacturing capability into flight-qualified hardware for two defence customers after securing a follow-on contract with America Makes.
The funding comes from Luxembourg Space Sector Development, EIT Raw Materials, with further support from the "Young Innovative Enterprise" initiative from the Ministry of Economy of Luxembourg.
The Fund has been set up to support the White House’s AM Forward initiative, which was created in 2022 with the aim of supporting smaller manufacturers in adopting additive manufacturing technology.
The new metal powder removal system can accommodate parts that weigh more than two tons, with Solukon aiming to meet the growing demand for a depowdering solution that can cater for the ‘heavy load segment.’
As part of this investment, Freeform will join the NVIDIA Inception program, leveraging NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to ‘supercharge’ its existing AI-driven metal 3D printing platform.
Atomik AM has announced it is working with fuel cell and hydrogen production technology developer Cygnus Atratus to explore how waste from its aluminium 3D printing processes could be used to create energy.
AddUp says MASSIF machines will increase productivity by 300%, reduce part costs by 50-70%, reduce powder waste to less than 10%, and boasts the ability to manufacture parts 12 times larger than current AddUp machines.
The success of this effort has proved the capability of the ElemX 3D printer being operational in an active maritime environment, with test results indicating the components were 'acceptable and fully functional' for their intended applications.
This latest round of funding will now be used to speed up the development of Conflux Production Systems, which is described as an end-to-end manufacturing solution capable of replacing traditional heat exchanger manufacturing processes.
On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Rob Higham and John Barnes cover the development of powders specific to AM processes and the need for progress to be made in the recyclability of metal powders.
Several working groups within the Department of Mechanical Engineering are pursuing materials-related topics, with arc405 machine set to be one of the additive manufacturing processes used through that research.
