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Large-Format M1000 Offers Multimaterial Printing for High-Performance Thermoplastics

The Multec M1000 is a high-temperature, six-material industrial 3D printer that teams Multec’s patented HexaMove 6-fold printing head with a high-end machine from Reichenbacher.

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3D Printed Capo for Banjo Made With Binder Jetting not MIM: The Cool Parts Show #74

New market, no mold tooling needed: Additive manufacturing via binder jetting enables a maker of guitar capos to expand to serve banjo players as well.

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Binder Jet

Binder Jetting Vs. Metal Injection Molding: The Cool Parts Show All Access

Alpha Precision Group, provider of both processes, discusses considerations that go into making this choice.

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Automation

5 Ways Collaborative Robots and 3D Printing Go Together

Collaborative robots (cobots) are seemingly everywhere — a defining automation technology today. And cobots have a relationship with additive manufacturing that is, well, collaborative. While cobots need custom hardware AM can provide, they are well suited to aid AM production. Here is just some of what we have seen of the interaction between cobots and 3D printing. 

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LFAM

Massive Dimension Becomes Authorized Integrator for FANUC Robots

Massive Dimension can now integrate FANUC’s robotics technology to enhance its additive manufacturing offerings, enabling more customized solutions tailored to specific customer requirements — from prototyping to full-scale production.

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Defense

Think Tank, US Navy Announce Plans for Developing Guam Additive Materials and Manufacturing Accelerator

Nonprofit organization ASTRO America will manage staging and deployment of 3D Printing Technology and Workforce Education Center on Guam to diversify the island’s economy and support Indo-Pacific submarine industrial base needs.

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Metal

BLT Supports Successful Flight and Recovery Test of Longyun Liquid Oxygen-Methane Engine

This 10-km-level test represents China's largest scale vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight trial for reusable rockets to date.

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Profilometry-Based Indentation Plastometry (PIP) as an Alternative to Standard Tensile Testing

UK-based Plastometrex offers a benchtop testing device utilizing PIP to quickly and easily analyze the yield strength, tensile strength and uniform elongation of samples and even printed parts. The solution is particularly useful for additive manufacturing. 

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SLS

Formlabs Acquires Micronics to Accelerate Its SLS 3D Printing Capabilities

The acquisition of Micronics will now complement Formlabs’ SLS team to bring new tools and solutions that enable product designers and innovators to unleash even more creativity, take design risks and print robust end-use parts.

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Metal

Nikon Reorganizes and Rebrands Morf3D Subsidiary to Create Nikon AM Synergy

The transformation includes new leadership and a reorganization that shifts away from the former general-purpose contract manufacturing service bureau business.

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