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Metal

Digital Metal Leverages Powder Expertise into Binder-Jetting System, Now for Sale

Digital Metal, a Höganäs Group company, now offers its own additive manufacturing machine, the DM P2500 high-precision binder-jetting metal 3D printer.

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Production

Automated AM System Looks Toward Future of Industrial Production

A partnership between 3D printer manufacturer BigRep and Dutch research organization TNO is creating an automated additive manufacturing system.

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Safety 

Installing a Metal 3D Printer, Part 4: Prevention and Mitigation

PADT’s fourth blog entry in a five-part series about their experience installing a Concept Laser Mlab Cusing R metal 3D printer tackles safety risks with a focus on prevention.

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Materials

3D-Printed Prototypes Become the Parts with Carbon Fiber Filled Filament

Utah Trikes, a retailer and manufacturer of trikes and quads, has grown its custom business using FDM Nylon 12CF to produce end-use composite parts that formerly would have required moldmaking.

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Materials

Real-Time, High-Res Monitoring of Structural Defects in Metal AM

A team at Argonne National Laboratory has, for the first time, captured below-surface measurements of laser-metal reactions.

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Metal

Using Hybrid AM, GE Leverages Turbine Blade Repair into Efficiency Improvement

An engineering modification that would have been impractical or cost-prohibitive in the past is realized on a machine tool performing metal 3D printing and machining in the same cycle.

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Metal

Additive Manufacturing at EMO 2017

Here are some of the AM technologies Editor-in-Chief Peter Zelinski saw at the world’s largest metalworking show.

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Safety 

Installing a Metal 3D Printer, Part 3: Safety Risks

PADT’s third blog entry in a five-part series about their experience installing a Concept Laser Mlab Cusing R metal 3D printer tackles safety risks and ways to mitigate them.

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Medical & Dental

3D-Printed Medical Drills Keep Bone Cool During Surgery

Drills made via additive manufacturing cut bones without causing thermal-induced damage thanks to internal cooling channels.

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Aerospace

Aerospace Project Pairs 3D Printing with Investment Casting

A research project conducted by Autodesk reduced the weight of an airplane seat frame using 3D-printed patterns and investment casting in magnesium.

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