Fiona Lawler

Fiona Lawler Associate Editor

Tooling

Nicolet Plastics Succeeds Using Mantle's Hybrid Metal 3D Printing Method for Mold Tooling

A recent webinar explores Nicolet Plastics’ success using Trueshape Technology, Mantle’s approach to print injection mold tooling. The current challenges this technology addresses and alleviates in additive manufacturing confirms this method is effectively reducing lead times and cost constraints, while producing better inserts.  

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ActivArmor Casts and Splints Are Shifting to Point-of-Care 3D Printing

ActivArmor offers individualized, 3D printed casts and splints for various diagnoses. The company is in the process of shifting to point-of-care printing and aims to promote positive healing outcomes and improved hygienics with customized support devices.

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Sporting Goods

3D Printed Golf Putter Shafts: AM Tailors Weight Distribution for an Optimized Putting Stroke

Snarr3D offers high-performance golf putters with aesthetic features made possible through 3D printing. In manipulating the weight distribution of the golf putter shaft, Snarr3D aims to enhance accuracy and performance to give golfers the equipment suited to their individual game. 

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Production

Nexus, Hexagon's Digital Reality Platform Offers Collaboration Solutions Congruent With AM Needs

Nexus, Hexagon’s open, digital reality platform, enables collaboration among manufacturers and promotes the freedom to innovate using an array of digitalized tools.

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Energy & Power

MKS Instruments' App Measures Laser Energy for AM Industry

MKS Instruments’ Ophir StarViewer iOS App enables stand-alone measurement of high-power lasers in various additive chambers. The app offers wireless transfer of measurements via different data display options.

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Sigma Additive Solutions Partners With SLM Solutions to Optimize Quality Solutions in AM

Sigma’s PrintRite3D technology and SLM Solutions’ 3D metal printers will enable users to standardize product development. The shared goal is to integrate certified quality assurance software for the use of additive manufacturing machinery. 

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Materials

The Power of the Particle: Characteristics That Affect Powder Bed Fusion AM

A recent webinar explores the influence of powder properties and the direct effect they have on AM build outcomes. Detailed are several methods for measuring characteristics of particle shape, size and surface chemistry during the feedstock life cycle.

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Tooling

3D Printed Mold Tooling Advances in Performance With Proprietary Resin

Material improvements offer turnkey production and cost trimming with 3D printed mold tooling. A new, proprietary resin addresses the current limitations associated with 3D printing in polymer. 

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Lightweighting

Reusable LOX/Kerosene Engine Completes First Successful Full-System Test Flight

Galactic Energy Space Technology announced the first successful full-system test flight of its Welkin 50-ton reusable LOX/kerosene engine. To date, this is the highest thrust LOX/kerosene engine in the Chinese commercial aerospace playing field which has officially entered the engineering and manufacturing phase.

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