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6 Considerations When Launching an Additive Startup
Recent additive manufacturing (AM) startup owner, JP Kinerk, shares his experience by offering helpful advice for others just starting out in the additive realm.
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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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Chromatic 3D Materials Launches Rapid Custom Manufacturing Service for Common Rubber Parts
The service includes standard industrial shapes, including gaskets, seals, cylinders and grommets in customizable, nonstandard dimensions up to 16" in diameter.
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Nexa3D Expands Resin Portfolio With Ceramic, Flexible, Clear Materials
Nexa3D worked with material experts at BASF and Henkel to validate custom formulations for its ultrafast fleet of industrial and desktop 3D printers.
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Hexagon, Stratasys Unlock 3D Printed PEKK’s Lightweighting for Aerospace
The companies say the rigorously validated multiscale models of these high-performance, aerospace-approved materials have been added to Hexagon’s Digimat materials exchange ecosystem with associated print process parameters from Stratasys’ aerospace-ready 3D printers.
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How AM Enables Cobot Automation for Thyssenkrupp Bilstein (Includes Video)
The shock absorber maker has responded to its staffing shortages through extensive use of collaborative robots. In-house 3D printing makes this possible by providing the related hardware needed to complete the cobot-automated cells.
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Concept Sneaker Boasts One-Piece 3D Printed TPU Construction
The Reebok x Botter Concept Sneaker Engineered by HP premiered at Paris Fashion Week, hinting at manufacturing possibilities for the future of footwear.
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Solukon Expands Compatibility of Unpacking, Cleaning Station for Plastic Parts
With adapters for EOS P 1 and P 5 series SLS manufacturing systems, the Solukon SFP770 postprocessing system can now accommodate build boxes from other leading printers, enabling Solukon to tap new markets in the area of polymer postprocessing.
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B9 Elite Micro 3D Printer for Medical, Industrial Microscale Applications
The B9 Elite Micro offers ultrahigh resolution, accuracy, precision and repeatability, pushing the boundaries of feature size capabilities at the scale and tolerances nearly meeting or exceeding micro injection molded parts.
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Advancing Additive Manufacturing With a CATCH and Release Approach
Solutions for energy efficiency, sustainability, part repair and more are developing at Siemens’ Charlotte Advanced Technology Collaboration Hub (CATCH) in North Carolina.
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