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Airtech and Ascent Aerospace Collaborate to Promote Additive Manufacturing Tooling in Aerospace, Defense

By combining Airtech’s high-performance materials and Ascent’s production capabilities, the companies aim to support the adoption of polymer composite additive tooling to some of the most demanding applications and customers in the world.

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Polymer

Xolo Xube² Offers 3D Volumetric Printing for Creating Intricate, Highly Detailed Structures

Xolo’s volumetric 3D printing technology with its xolography process enables the creation of high-precision, layer-free 3D structures at remarkable speeds, driving research advancements in optics, biomedical applications and more.

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Metal

FDA Approves 3D Systems’ Orthopedic Patient-Specific Guides for Ankle Replacements

The Total Ankle Patient-Matched Guides pair with Smith+Nephew’s Total Ankle replacement solutions and are designed to help surgeons save time and ensure accuracy while performing fewer steps than standard instrumentation.

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Metal

Colibrium Additive Upgrades EB-PBF Software for Enhanced Printer Performance, Productivity

The EBMControl 6.4 software enables support-free prints, point melt printing and elimination of start plates to optimize EB-PBF printer operations and part quality.

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Supply Chain

US Army Tests Additive Manufacturing for Printing Vehicle Repair Parts in the Field

Spee3D participates in successful demonstration with the Army Research Lab to validate the use of additive manufacturing for creating military vehicle repair parts in the field at the point of need.

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LPBF

ASTM and EOS Expand AM Machine Operator Certification Program

The ASTM International Powder Bed Fusion – Laser Beam (PBF-LB) Machine Operator Certification program now includes both the EOS M 290 and EOS M 400 platforms.

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Former Charles Ross & Son Company President Passes Away

Richard Ross took the helm as company president in 1961 and served as a visionary leader, guiding the company through decades of growth and expansion.

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Defense

AM Materials Consortium Selects Partners for LPBF Fabrication and Testing

The consortium is developing open LPBF parameter sets to streamline machine, material and process qualification, with the goal of expediting customers’ process development leading to serial production.

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Metal

QuickCast Air Software Maximizes Material Removal From Casting Pattern Interiors

The software tool optimizes material removal for cleaner burnout and more efficient draining to reduce both material consumption and build times, enabling a material efficiency that has demonstrated cost competitiveness with traditional injection molded wax patterns.

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Formnext

Registration Opens for Formnext Chicago: US Version of World’s Largest AM Trade Show

Additive manufacturing (AM) industry leaders are making plans to participate in the 2025 U.S. version of Formnext — the most successful additive show in the world, which brings together the whole industrial process of AM.

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