What is driving the demand for additive manufacturing in the sporting goods marketspace? Let’s look to the supply chain and trends in additive manufacturing for some answers. Glen Mason, manager of advanced innovation and industrialization at DeMarini, a division of…
Multinational printing firm HP has made several announcements in the lead-up to this year’s Formnext trade show, the first of which concerns a new partnership with cosmetics giant L’Oréal. Together, the two companies are seeking to enable more flexible cosmetics production and explore…
The oil and gas industry is finally getting in on the 3D printing revolution, using the technology to solve supply chain problems, lower costs, and reduce emissions The tech could save the oil and gas industry $30 billion annually The…
Automaker teams with Siemens, HP to make lighter components, with goal of 100,000 annually by 2025 Volkswagen has begun certifying prototype 3D-printed structural components, with the aim of producing 100,000 parts annually by 2025. VW is teaming with Siemens and…
Cranes manufacturer Huisman said it has successfully tested four new 3D printed 350mt crane hooks under the supervision of the independent certification authority Lloyd’s Register. The hooks are approx. 170 by 130cm in size, almost nine times larger than the…
Access to and use of additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has increased in recent years due to the expiring of patents on techniques and technologies, says Hugues Greder, Lead Petroleum Engineer at Total. Computing power is much…
Unattended, low-volume production of functioning circuitry is now an option It’s been a year of firsts for electronics 3D printing, with the launch of Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing (LDM), a manufacturing technology in which systems run with little or no human intervention…
Will 3D printing encourage companies to move to decentralized manufacturing or stick with centralized manufacturing? 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), could be a game-changer for manufacturing, enabling significant savings of cost, time, and materials. In traditional manufacturing,…
A feature in the March 2016 company magazine for Kongsberg Gruppen – one of Norway’s oldest and largest companies – delves into the future of 3D printing within the multi- faceted technology manufacturer. The article focusses on the in- house 3D printing…
It may sound like science fiction but the beauty industry is experiencing a makeover and for the first time it’s not at the expense of animals Back in 2015, L’Oréal announced that it was experimenting with printing human skin tissue on which…