miniFactory Ultra, PEEK and ULTEM 3D printing
miniFactory, a Finnish 3D printer manufacturer, has released the miniFactory Ultra 3D printer for high-temperature materials, such as PEEK and PEKK. Olli Pihlajamäki, Sales...
Building A Stronger Body Armor
Texas A&M researchers have found that adding silicon to a material used to make body armor can make it more resilient to firearms.
According to...
Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...
Tethon 3D and University of Nebraska to Develop First Ceramic and...
Tethon 3D, a ceramic 3D printing material specialist headquartered in Nebraska, has received a grant to develop a multi-material DLP 3D printer.
The grant was...
Metal Foam Stops .50 Caliber Rounds As Well As Steel
Researchers have demonstrated that vehicle armor using composite metal foam (CMF) can stop ball and armor-piercing .50 caliber rounds as well as conventional steel...
Thermoplastic composites recycling process
The ThermoPlastic composites Application Center (TPAC, Enschede, the Netherlands) and the Thermoplastic Research Centre (TPRC, Enschede, the Netherlands) have developed a new recycling process...
Lasers could take 3-D printing to next level
Cars that go more than 1,000 miles on a single fill-up and smartphones that can run for days without recharging are among the possibilities...
Ford Goes Greener for Plastics
focus Sustainability and Recycling Summit) the automaker and the ketchup maker are working together on finding the ways and means to use the skins...
Colossus unveils large-scale 3D printer for recycled plastics with Mitsubishi Chemical
Colossus, a machine development startup based in Genk, Belgium, has released what is said to be the largest Fused Granular Fabrication (FGF) 3D printer...
3D Systems Breakthrough Material to Enable Digital Production of Plastic Parts
3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) unveiled Figure 4 Production Black 10 (PRO-BLK 10) - a revolutionary production material for additive manufacturing applications that enables manufacturers to...
