Product Development
HP, Legor Collaborate on Specialty Precious Metals for Jewelry Markets
The initial collaboration will focus on enabling the production of functional stainless steel accessories for the jewelry and fashion markets, while also implementing an R&D program to parameterize and characterize bronze and silver powders, and eventually gold powders.
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3D Printing Enables Mold Shop to Rapidly Prototype Medical Parts (Video)
A case study involving Mantle’s 3D printing technology allowed moldmaker Westminster Tool to go from design to injection molded prototype medical parts in three weeks.
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Plastics Assembly Expert Joins Development and Production via 3D Printing
Manufacturing technology supplier Extol has always served customers who are producing polymer parts. Now, it is making some of those parts in-house through 3D printing, providing new options ranging from functional prototyping into bridge production and beyond.
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Intro to DLP: Learn the Basics of Digital Light Processing Technology
Digital light processing (DLP) is quickly emerging as a key technology to move the 3D printing of plastics from prototyping to mass production, delivering the material properties and part characteristics without the costs and delays of tooling. Learn the basics and how new innovations to DLP enable mass production.
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Triditive, Foxconn Developing Binder Jetting Technology
The companies are developing the first prototype and materials for subsequent commercialization.
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How Bridge Production Is Bringing New Possibilities: AM Radio #14A
Additive manufacturing makes bridge production a more natural factor in the production strategy overall. This has important implications for product development and even what products are possible.
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GE Additive Partners With Sydney University on Manufacturing-Focused Research Facility
The Sydney manufacturing hub is a new manufacturing-focused research facility that will work alongside industry to deliver cutting-edge R&D in additive manufacturing and materials processing.
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Markforged’s Precise PLA Expands Capabilities for Complete Product Life Cycle
Material expands Markforged applications from functional carbon fiber and metal parts to cost-effective design validation and rapid prototyping.
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Prototyping Is More Than Printing: The Cool Parts Show Bonus
We hear from students who carried out other steps, beyond the 3D printing, that went into evaluating a complex metal AM component.
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Updated Definition Makes Way for AM Part Production
Additive manufacturing is finding its footing, and a new standard definition in ISO/ASTM 52900:2021 shows that AM is for more than prototyping.
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