Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 11, 2025

To illustrate the power of a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printing system that is open source, Venkata Karthik Nadimpalli passes a magnet over a sleeve of metal filings held over a solid, 3D printed block of steel. The filings form into letters.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2024

Once relegated to rapid prototyping, 3D printing technology has now advanced far beyond the design studio. At NPE 2024: The Plastics Show , 3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) suppliers will be highlighted in the Advanced Manufacturing Zone , while AM users will take to the stage for Wednesday’s 3D Printing Workshop.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Source: Husky , DME , Maya, Hexagon These webinars, hosted in collaboration with industry-leading suppliers, provided actionable strategies, innovative solutions and the latest trends shaping the moldmaking industry. In this special end-of-the-year recap, we spotlighted the most-viewed webinars resonating with our audience.

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E&T

AUGUST 14, 2023

A 3D-printed calamari ring prepared in the lab Image credit: Poornima Vijayan “Plant-based seafood mimics are out there, but the ingredients don’t usually include protein. The team tested two sustainable, high-protein plant sources: microalgae and mung beans.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 4, 2025

Pinto and his team launched an open-source research project called Robot Utility Models ( RUM ) that attempts to generalize training for robots so that developers don’t have to train thousands of examples of a task. ” It is an open-source, 3D-printed gripper device that employs an iPhone for visual feedback.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 19, 2024

Source (clockwise) | Steel 21, Trumpf, Molder’s World and TCI Precision Metals. Over the last few years, a focus on “next-generation” technologies has permeated the manufacturing industry — particularly regarding 3D printing and mold materials complementary to this process.

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AU Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Part fabrication and preliminary material characterisation will take place at UND, followed by further analysis using neutron diffraction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source in Tennessee. Roy and a doctoral student from his research group at UND will spend the summers of 2024 and 2025 at ORNL.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 26, 2024

MatterHackers has announced a strategic partnership with BigRep, facilitated by their acquisition of Source Graphics, to enhance their large-format 3D printing capabilities.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 10, 2025

Fleet Space’s GHQ will house the company’s research and development labs, 3D printing technologies, data center infrastructure, and central operations for the company’s satellite network in low Earth orbit and its end-to-end mineral exploration platform, ExoSphere.

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iBASEt

JUNE 7, 2022

When you think of a hospital printing organ implants and creating custom joint replacements in a matter of hours, you might be picturing a scene decades from now. Thanks to 3D printing, that reality is only a handful of years away. This is just one example of the potential impact of 3D printing.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 30, 2025

Source | Zero Tolerance Murphy Forsyth is the injection molding general manager at Zero Tolerance , a rapidly growing plastic injection mold machine shop located in Clinton Township, Michigan. This innovative technique combines the methods of 3D printing and injection molding to create molded parts.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A mold produced on a desktop resin 3D printer. Source (All images) | APSX As moldmakers face increasing pressures to deliver faster and more cost-effective solutions, integrating 3D printing (3DP), machining and desktop injection molding into the process can offer significant advantages for both novice and advanced moldmakers.

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Dinesh Mishra

JULY 25, 2022

CEMEX and COBOD have been working together over the last year to innovate in the 3D printing space. Through this partnership, they recently introduced a 3D printing solution that utilizes conventional ready-mix concrete in the building process. COBOD 3D printed Europe’s first building in 2017. About COBOD.

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i4.0 today

JULY 25, 2022

CEMEX and COBOD have been working together over the last year to innovate in the 3D printing space. Through this partnership, they recently introduced a 3D printing solution that utilizes conventional ready-mix concrete in the building process. COBOD 3D printed Europe’s first building in 2017. About COBOD.

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Mold Making Technology

JULY 5, 2023

Come to this session to learn some 3D printing best practices for producing hybrid tool inserts via recent real-world applications examples. Linear also works closely with the moldmaker at the front end of the design process to address these concerns by identifying the best part orientation on the build plate during the grow stage.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 15, 2024

Source: The Plastek Group The Plastek Group is a cross-functional group of engineers covering multiple disciplines, from package development, mold design/manufacturing and molding/assembly, with an emphasis on collaboration and quality.

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Mold Making Technology

AUGUST 18, 2024

Source | Alpine Advanced Materials Alpine Advanced Materials (Alpine), a custom-engineering and part manufacturer in industries like aerospace and defense , space and emerging transportation, leveraged a new prototyping process utilizing a dissolvable mold for high-performance injection molded composites.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The value proposition of medical 3D printing is massive. Many other such cases are out there proving out the efficacy of 3D printing to deliver results made for specific cases. Dozens of 3D printed TBM splints alone have shown demonstrable clinical success stories in patients of varying ages.

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Fastener News Desk

JUNE 30, 2023

Industrial 3D printing specialist Würth Additive Group has announced its CEO AJ Strandquist has joined new task force focused on the use of additive manufacturing (AM) technology within the automotive repair industry. Source: TCT Take advantage of a $50.00 discount on your IFE 2023 registration. Use promo code: FND50

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, Addifab has plugged 3D printing speed and design freedom directly into tool designer workflow, to enable a rewriting of the pilot tooling playbook. Soluble, 3D-printed injection mold cores and cavities is one of the essential innovations behind the novel Addifab freeform injection molding (FIM).

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Additive Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

9, 2022 — Chromatic 3D Materials has launched ChromaScan, an additive manufacturing software for printing resin on non-planar surfaces. This new technology allows manufacturers to 3D print durable, flexible materials directly onto substrates of any shape including metal, plastic and textiles. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov.

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E&T

AUGUST 8, 2022

Alternative sources of proteins from insects, plants and algae are much more sustainable while still being nutrient-rich food, although they remain off-putting to many people. The team used an established engineering technique known as ‘response surface methodology’ and applied it for use in 3D food printing.

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Additive Manufacturing

MAY 3, 2023

Berkeley, CA (May 2, 2023) – polySpectra , maker of the world’s most rugged photopolymer resins, has announced its third Cyclic Olefin Resin (COR) material for durable 3D printing. At RAPID + TCT 2023, polySpectra has unveiled COR Bio, expanding the company’s reach into new markets with its first biocompatible 3D printing material.

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Fastener News Desk

APRIL 25, 2023

Smith and his team employed time-saving computer modeling, as well as a laser 3D printing process that fused metals together, layer-by-layer, to create the new alloy. Current state-of-the-art 3D printed superalloys can withstand temperatures up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 26, 2025

Source | BMF Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) is expanding the range of its microArch series 3D printers with the addition of four new materials, which include 3D Systems ’ Figure 4 HI TEMP 300-AMB,BASF Ultracur3D 3280 and BMF resins HTF and SR.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 30, 2024

Source: Mantle Inc. Mantle’s precision metal 3D printing technology can be used for printing precision tooling, meeting industry requirements for accuracy, surface finish and tool steel properties. Mantle has announced the release of its 420 Stainless Steel material.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 24, 2023

A group of researchers, including scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) , has discovered a means to consistently manufacture 17-4 PH steel using 3D printing processes while keeping all of the material’s high-value properties.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The new technology is a significant boost to Fleet Space ’s capabilities, enabling the development and manufacture of new products in-house and paving the way for its fully 3D-printed Alpha satellite. We’re capitalising on our existing knowledge and experience of 3D printing antennas and structural components.

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MESA

MAY 26, 2023

America Makes strives to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative, cost-effective, energy-efficient AM and 3D printed (3DP) technologies to meet defense and/or commercial needs. The project call is also seeking innovative solutions for robotic AM process planning for continuous fiber-reinforced composite structures. “We

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Source | Zero Tolerance Aiming to expand access to affordable metal 3D printing for small-to-medium-sized companies and decentralize additive manufacturing, Xact Metal announced that it has shipped its 150th metal 3D printer.

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Metrology

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As a manufacturing-focused, high-performance 3D printing software solution that is machine independent and CAD agnostic, it brings agility and repeatability to the shop-floor, unrestricted from having to source individual tools from multiple vendors or being forced to use software that is tied to specific machines.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 16, 2024

Shown here is an Xact Metal printed automotive connector insert on a tool with the corresponding plastic injection molded final part. Source | JST Sales America, Inc., an Xact Metal customer. Xact Metal has announced the launch of its new initiative, “Breaking the Mold: The Xact Solution to Better Tooling.”

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Vienna, Austria/October 6, 2022 — Lithoz GmbH announced that it has acquired Germany-based CerAMing, the patent holder of the Layer-wise Slurry Disposition (LSD)-Print ceramic 3D printing process. This strategic expansion further secures and extends Lithoz’s global market leadership as a system provider.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 12, 2023

A research team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Virginia (UVA) has developed various imaging and machine-learning techniques to detect and predict the formation of pores in 3D-printed metals in real time with near-perfect accuracy.

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Fastener News Desk

MARCH 29, 2024

Last year, Harold Sears, formerly of Ford Motors, told me that certification of aftermarket spares is one of the main issues that needs to be addressed in order for 3D printed car parts to be more widely embraced by the auto repair industry. It’s time for AM to learn how to survive in the wild. WAG is here with a survival guide.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Sources | Intralox, Michael Louris, MMT Welcome to the October roundup of must-read articles for the moldmaking industry! Source | Intralox Best Practices for Engraving Cores and Cavities Consider depth, font style, artwork size, polarity and location when engraving.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

JANUARY 17, 2025

Disruptive Technologies Pioneering 3D Printing for Custom Heat Pump Components Revolutionizing heat pump manufacturing by employing 3D printing to produce bespoke components. These factors are reshaping the way heat pumps contribute to energy efficiency, climate goals, and global sustainability.

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