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This Company 3D Prints Bicycles In Titanium

By On May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment

3D printing usually evokes images of plastic materials, but the truth is that any number of materials can be used in the rapid prototyping process. SLM, or selective laser melting, is one such method used to essentially 3D print items with metal.

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3D Systems to Acquire Arcam?

By On May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Last week 3D Systems did something unusual: they sold off 7,500,000 shares of their stock at a price of USD$40 each. Around 17.5% of these shares were held by “certain selling stockholders” , while the rest were owned by 3D Systems itself. This raised company coffers by a massive USD$300M.

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The New “Handmade”

By On May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Amid grumblings of a “ general fatigue ” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness.

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Defense Distributed Says It’s Finally Created the First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun

By On May 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

It’s an anarchist’s wet dream: a gun you can make completely at home, for free. Today Cody Wilson, the crypto-anarchist Wired named “ one of the most dangerous people in the world “, announced to Forbes that his company Defense Distributed has created the first fully 3D printed gun and will release the blueprints after testing is completed so that users can download and create their own

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UMT Develops 3D Printing Metal Smoothing Technology

By On May 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment

We had a brief encounter with Alexander Lobovsky, P.E., who is a partner with United Materials Technologies of New Jersey.

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3D Printing Is Creating A New Breed Of Chinese Manufacturing Entrepreneurs

By On April 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy making things. Yet the factory, owned by Beijing Longyuan Automated Fabrication System (known as AFS), appears almost deserted.

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Companies to Explore the Next Generation Concepts for 3D Metal Printing Machinery

By On March 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Sigma Labs Inc. announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Interactive Machines, Inc. (IMI) of Southwick, Massachusetts.

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NASA Gets Serious About 3D Printing

By On March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A post on Mashable describes the goings-on at NASA where they’re deeply investigating the possibility of using 3D printing technology on future space missions.

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CSIRO’s goal: Track big fish with 3D Printing

By On February 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

CSIRO in Australia is 3D printing tags from its very own 3D printing facility, Lab 22, in Melbourne. The tags are used for tracking of marine life in the oceans and are printed overnight and then shipped to Tasmania where marine scientists are trialing them.

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New Space-Based 3D Printer

By On February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

You might not realize it, but there are actually two companies pursuing asteroid mining today. One is Planetary Resources, backed by notables such as James Cameron, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and more. The other company is Deep Space Industries.

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