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EOS P3 Next SLS 3D Printer Offers Optimized Workflow for Medical Applications
Formnext 2024: This SLS printer features advanced software updates and scanning algorithms, improved recoater speed, optimized heating and new peripheral equipment for increased productivity, higher machine utilization and improved material efficiency.
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Henkel Develops Loctite 3D Resins for Industrial, Medical Applications
Formnext 2024: Henkel has expanded its material portfolio with Loctite 3D IND6845 for industrial production and Loctite 3D MED3394 for medical applications.
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Replique Enhances 3D Printing Material Hub, Expands Production Network With Traditional Technologies
Formnext 2024: Replique has also collaborated with several health care providers to develop 3D printed innovations such as a fully 3D printed containment valve and new rollator with a 3D printed frame.
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SK Industriemodell’s Technology Designed to Accelerate, Improve Development Cycles of Prototypes, Components and Products
Formnext 2024: Technology enables the development of sophisticated components.
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3D Printed Metal Vibenite 350 Testing Indicates Biocompatibility for Implant Use
The material is both wear and corrosive resistant, and could be well suited as an implant material where wear resistance is essential, such as human joints.
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Cranial Implant 3D Printed From Hydroxyapatite Ceramic: The Cool Parts Show #76
Cranial implants are typically made from titanium or PEEK; in this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we look at how implants made from a bioceramic can improve osseointegration and healing.
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Xolo Xube² Offers 3D Volumetric Printing for Creating Intricate, Highly Detailed Structures
Xolo’s volumetric 3D printing technology with its xolography process enables the creation of high-precision, layer-free 3D structures at remarkable speeds, driving research advancements in optics, biomedical applications and more.
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FDA Approves 3D Systems’ Orthopedic Patient-Specific Guides for Ankle Replacements
The Total Ankle Patient-Matched Guides pair with Smith+Nephew’s Total Ankle replacement solutions and are designed to help surgeons save time and ensure accuracy while performing fewer steps than standard instrumentation.
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Colibrium Additive Develops Spectra M EB-PBF Printer for Smaller Build Volumes
The printer offers a smaller build volume making it well suited for a variety of additive manufacturing users, including medical and orthopedic implant manufacturers looking to further reduce cost-per-part and additive production costs.
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LeoShape Collaborates With Formlabs for 24-Hour Custom-Made Orthopedic Solutions
LeoShape and Formlabs are partnering to streamline the orthopedic solution process, increase speed and enhance precision to deliver tailor-made orthopedic solutions to patients.
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Henkel Develops Resilient, Sterilizable Loctite for Medical Applications
Henkel’s Loctite 3D MED3394 resin has robust resistance against sterilization methods, giving it a durability that ensures reliable performance in demanding medical applications.
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Fabulous Brings Its Food-Safe Powder Materials to North America
Fabulous develops and supplies powder materials for powder bed fusion technologies, particularly selective laser sintering, enabling 3D printer users to purchase technical powder materials based on PA11 or PA12 with high-quality technical and application support.
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3D Printed Spine Implants Made From PEEK Now in Production
Medical device manufacturer Curiteva is producing two families of spinal implants using a proprietary process for 3D printing porous polyether ether ketone (PEEK).
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Lessons in Personalized Production From the 3D Systems Surgical Guide Process
Tailor-made manufacturing is one of AM’s richest possibilities, but the success factors inevitably draw on more than AM.
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Q&A With Align EVP: Why the Invisalign Manufacturer Acquired Cubicure, and the Future of Personalized Orthodontics
Align Technology produces nearly 1 million unique aligner parts per day. Its acquisition of technology supplier Cubicure in January supports demand for 3D printed tooling and direct printed orthodontic devices at mass scale.
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3D Printed PEEK Spine Implants in Production: The Cool Parts Show Bonus
Curiteva is using Fused Strand Deposition to produce two different lines of FDA-cleared spine implants. We visited the company’s Huntsville, Alabama, facility to learn more.
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Ultra-Complex 3D Printed Scaffolds Enable Cell Growth: The Cool Parts Show #70
Perhaps the ultimate surface-area challenge is in bioengineering: creating structures that can grow sufficient cells within a compact volume to be effective for leading-edge medical treatments. The Southwest Research Institute develops bioreactor scaffolds that could only be made using 3D printing.
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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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