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Zenith Tecnica Manufactures 3D Printed Hardware for NASA Psyche Mission

The node components designed by Maxar Space Systems were well suited to the advantages of EBM AM due to their complex geometries.

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LPBF

Cumberland Additive Acquires Stratasys Direct Manufacturing Metals Operations, Doubles Metal AM Capacity

The agreement also expands and diversifies Cumberland’s material offerings in aluminum, copper and other metal materials.

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LPBF

Dyndrite, Constellium, Elementum 3D, Sandvik Establish Materials Consortium for 3D Metal Printing

This joint effort aims to make laser bed power fusion (LPBF) powder parameters and related testing data for common materials freely and publicly available to end users, enabling increased knowledge sharing, better outcomes, and faster adoption of materials and techniques.

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Metal

Jeol’s Electron Beam 3D Printer Meets Aerospace Qualification Standard

The company says that meeting the AMS7032 operational qualification standard ensures manufacturers that Jeol’s JAM-5200EBM is capable of producing aerospace-grade material with stable performance and meets all material specification requirements.

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Robots

Copper, New Metal Printing Processes, Upgrades Based on Software and More from Formnext 2023: AM Radio #46

Formnext 2023 showed that additive manufacturing may be maturing, but it is certainly not stagnant. In this episode, we dive into observations around technology enhancements, new processes and materials, robots, sustainability and more trends from the show. 

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Formnext

10 Video Reports From Formnext 2023

Our Formnext video playlist: Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski report on various technologies seen at Formnext 2023 in brief videos they filmed at the show.

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Polymer

Carbon’s EPX 150 Is High-Performance Rigid Resin for Complex Parts, Features

EPX 150 is Carbon’s fastest printing, chemically-resistant, high-temperature resin which is purpose-built to print complex parts and features.

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Automotive

Consortium Successfully Implements Automated AM Production Line at BMW Group

After a three-year project time line, the Polyline project was finally completed with a fully automated operation installed at BMW’s additive manufacturing campus in Munich, Germany.

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8 Cool Parts From Formnext 2023: The Cool Parts Show #65

New additive manufacturing technologies on display at Formnext were in many cases producing notable end-use components. Here are some of the coolest parts we found at this year’s show.

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Metal

Researchers Develop Method for Creating Customized 3D Printed Metals With Contrasting Properties

Researchers were able to use 3D printing techniques and tweak printing parameters to produce a 3D printed metal with different microstructures that create stronger and weaker regions in the exact locations in the metal that they wanted.

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