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Defense

Air Force Awards $1.5M Contract to Optomec for Additive Repairs

Company says additive repair solution for F35 large titanium blisk has potential to reduce costs by 80% and save tens of millions annually.

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Materials

Formlabs Resins for Creating Tough, Durable 3D Printed Parts

Company says new resins are high-performance polyurethane materials for additive manufacturing which are said to offer users more design freedom, reduced production costs and increased workflow efficiencies.

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Sustainability

Audi Creates 3D Printing Filament from Parts Packaging

The German automotive company is among the leaders in material reuse—which includes making filaments from what might otherwise be considered waste.

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Metal

CNC Engineering Integrates 3D Printing Solutions With CNC Machine Tools

CNC Engineering and Meltio have collaborated to design a solution that combines the power and reliability of FANUC CNC with cutting edge additive manufacturing technology.

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Binder Jet

Safer Nuclear Energy: 3D Printed Silicon Carbide Fuel Forms

Binder jetting provides a way to create pure silicon carbide fuel structures that can withstand the harsh environment of a nuclear reactor and provide a strong barrier against the release of radionuclides.

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Ceramic

Admatec’s Larger Integrated Binding/Sintering Furnace for Ceramic 3D Printing

Company scales up for more efficient mass customization and serial ceramics 3D printing production lines.

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Metal

Osseus’ 3D Printed Spine Anchors Receive FDA Clearance

The company says the system can be used with both bone screws and alternative fixation bone anchors to enable increased intraoperative flexibility, expulsion resistance and segmental stabilization.

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Production

USAF, GE Additive 3D Print Out-of-Production Metal Parts

The upcoming final phase of the Pacer Edge program is to establish the USAF’s own metal additive production infrastructure initially at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.

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Machining

Collaborators Work on Subsurface Project for Cold Plate Manufacturing

The project goal is to offer a new process head enabling CoreFlow on any CNC system via retrofit integration. In addition to the ability to alternate between milling and CoreFlow, the hybrid CNC will also feature optional subsurface inspection using the Ambit Wave ultrasonic inspection head developed by HMT.

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Metal

Wayland Additive’s Calibur3 for Stress-Free Metal Parts

Rapid + TCT 2022: The system features the NeuBeam hot part process rather than a hot bed process, which means it can efficiently create parts that are free of residual stresses because the high temperatures are only applied to the part and not the bed.

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