2021年8月，东京奥运会的完成了，3D印刷技术在世界舞台上露面。桌面金属宣布计划在今年最大的增材制造商之一中购买Binder Jetting Rival Exone。Arevo，Zetwerk和Icon各自产生了主要的资金新闻，阿联酋的谢赫·穆罕默德（Sheikh Mohammed）发出了一项法令，以规范迪拜的建筑3D印刷。
Additive manufacturing at the Tokyo Olympics
东京奥运会从2021年7月23日至8月8日举行，我们看到了许多3D印刷申请，支持来自全球四个角落的奥林匹克运动员。汽车制造商Hyundai Motor Group3D打印aset of弓箭队为韩国射箭队, helping them take home gold in the men’s, women’s, and mixed team categories at this year’s games.
在其他地方，铝专家Fehrmann Alloys3D打印arudder blade suspension that helped propel the Australian sailing teamto victory. The part was manufactured using Fehrmann’s high-performance AlMgty alloy at the request of Hamburg-based boatyardZiegelmayer是470级奥运会帆船的领先制造商。
Over in the paralympic space, 3D printing service provider3D Verkstanused carbon fiber 3D printing technology fromMarkforgedto producepara运动员的定制运动器材。The company helped design, 3D print, and test prototype parts for a tandem cycle drivetrain for a blind cyclist and her sighted race pilot.
桌面金属to acquire ExOne
When it came to buyout news, 3D printer manufacturer桌面金属came out on top when it entered into a definitive agreement toacquire rival binder jetting firm ExOne。该交易于2021年第四季度最终确定，台式金属支付了Exone股东的1.92亿美元现金和3.83亿美元的股票，该公司的估值为5.75亿美元。两家公司都表示，他们最终期望这项交易可以提高粘合剂喷射的采用率，从而帮助技术扩展到更多的大型客户。
“I’m very excited about this combination, which I believe will dramatically accelerate the adoption of production metal additive manufacturing,” explained John Hartner, CEO of ExOne. “This combination brings together two of the industry’s leaders, that combined, will solve customers’ challenges faster and bring the reality of production metal additive forward by years.”
Funding news from Arevo, Gelato, Zetwerk, and ICON
8月, composite 3D printing companyArevoclosed a $25 million financing round led byKhosla冒险andFounders Fund。The news came as the firm also completed the construction of the世界上最大的连续碳纤维3D打印设施to date. Equipped with 70 of the firm’s shipping container-sized Aqua 2 3D printers, the facility is set to aid Arevo in manufacturing parts for bicycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, and other consumer products.
“After introducing Aqua 2 last year (4x faster than Aqua 1), we focused on producing and operating these systems at scale,” said Sonny Vu, CEO of AREVO. “Now with a total of 76 systems cloud-connected and operating at our various locations, we have completed our first phase of industrializing.
Elsewhere, on-demand manufacturing service providerZetwerkraised$150 million to become one of India’s latest business unicorns。The funding, which took the firm’s total value to $1.33 billion, will be used to invest in new technologies and expand the firm’s global reach. Zetwerk aims to better address Western manufacturers encountering supply chain issues during the pandemic.
“Zetwerk is helping enterprises navigate the shift to digital manufacturing amidst rapidly changing global supply chains,” explained Amrit Acharya, CEO of Zetwerk. “Over the last year, more than 100 western companies have moved their supply chains to India via Zetwerk, across industrial and consumer products.”
在德克萨斯公司的建筑3D印刷领域ICONraised $207 million to take its total investment raised up to $266 million. The company said it would use the capital to help“将住房和建筑带入现代世界”，推进其混凝土印刷技术，扩展其生产能力，并扩大其工程师和建筑师团队。
Icon首席执行官Jason Ballard说：“自2018年揭幕以来，Icon的主要工作一直在将其技术从原型到可靠，现成的产品和服务的技术成熟。”“这需要数十种基本的工程，科学和建筑突破，我们为今天所处的位置感到自豪。我们希望以主要方式提高速度，并准备扩大规模。”
Sheikh Mohammed looks to regulate construction 3D printing in Dubai
最后，阿拉伯联合酋长国副总裁兼总理谢赫·穆罕默德·本·拉希德·阿尔·马克托姆（Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum）发表了decree to regulate the use of 3D printing technology in Dubai’s construction sector。
Decree No. 24 of 2021 was brought in to support the region’s target of ensuring that a quarter of its newly constructed buildings are built using 3D printing technology by 2030. The new legislation also aims to promote Dubai as a regional and global hub for 3D printing technology and forms part of a broader plan to spur economic growth and the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies in the emirate.
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