Industrial Applications Will Help Quadruple 3D Printing Market
Consumer uses of 3D printing attract most of the headlines, but industrial uses, from molds and tooling to actual production parts, are quietly having the greatest impact
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It’s been called a “game changer,” a “world changer” and a “life changer.” It’s predicted to disrupt everything from medicine to manufacturing to military strategy. It’s being used to create guns and gold jewelry, houses and human hearts. Three-D printing has evolved in the past few years from an obscure industrial process to an exemplar of digital-age innovation — with all the thrilling potential, lurid hype and amorphous menace that goes with it.
Latin-American Additive Manufacturing Service Bureau, Robtec, to be Acquired by 3D Systems
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. The transaction provides 3DS with the strongest possible platform for its Quickparts fast-turn, custom manufacturing expansion plans in Latin Ame...
Rising Volume for Finished, 3D Printed Metal Parts
Manufacturers like Ford Motor Co., Airbus, Boeing, GE Aviation continue to be high-volume buyers of metalcastings – but each one (and many others like them) has confirmed their own activity in additive manufacturing (or 3D printing.) The 3D-printed parts are not replacing castings — not yet in any case — but OEMs’ rate of progress in developing, implementing, and commercializing these in-house design and manufacturing efforts cannot be overlooked.