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CSM Bakery Solutions and 3D Systems Announce Agreement to Bring 3D Printing to the Food Industry

“CSM Bakery Solutions, a global leader in bakery ingredients, products and services, and 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD), the originator of 3D printing and solutions, today announced they reached an agreement to collaborate in the development, sale, and distribution of …

There’s not enough sign language translators, so these students 3D printed a humanoid robot

“A team of engineering students from the University of Antwerp are building a humanoid robot that will have the ability to translate speech into sign language. Sponsored by the European Institute for Otorhinolaryngology, the robot titled Project Aslan aims to …

Spacewalking cosmonauts release 3-D-printed satellite

“Spacewalking cosmonauts set free the world’s first satellite made almost entirely with a 3-D printer on Thursday. In total, Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy ended up releasing five nanosatellites by hand. One by one, the tiny craft — no …

GE Taps Into Its Collective Brain To Unlock 3D Printing’s Full Potential

” you’ve ever seen 3D printing video, chances are it was time-lapse footage. The actual process of additive manufacturing can take hours or days, particularly when lasers are melting metal powder layer by layer into an intricate part. The simplest …

Professors 3D-print first truly microfluidic “lab on a chip” device

“Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small …

Additive Manufacturing of Micro-Optics

“The German company Nanoscribe is developing and producing high-precision 3D printing solutions enabling the micro-optics industry to innovate by additive manufacturing. Typically, the benefits of additive manufacturing are considered to be fast and flexible design iterations as well as freedom …

Premiere at Mercedes-Benz Trucks: New from the 3D printer: the first spare part for trucks made of metal

“Mercedes-Benz Trucks has taken 3D printing a stage further: the first printed spare part made of metal, a thermostat cover for truck and Unimog models from older model series, has passed all the stages of the stringent quality assurance process …

Startup Aims to Make 3D Metal Printing 100 Times Faster

“Three-dimensional printing has been the “next big thing” for at least seven or eight years running. But it has yet to advance beyond the niche industrial and enthusiast markets. One of the main issues is the lack of durable materials …

Linglong Tire partners in China’s first 3D printed tyre project

“Joint developmental work between Shandong Linglong Tire and the Beijing University of Chemical Technology recently bore fruit with the successful production of 3D printed polyurethane tyres. The tyre maker comments that this 3D tyre printing is a first in China …

ArianeGroup signs a first contract with ESA to develop the future Prometheus engine

“The European Space Agency and Airbus Safran Launchers, the 50/50 joint-venture set up by the Airbus and Safran groups, which will become ArianeGroup on July 1, today signed, at the Paris Air Show, the first tranche of the development …