Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. (MHI) in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, has announced the commercialization of a metal 3D printer. Adopting directed energy deposition (DED) technol…
SBI Produktion releases plasma arc metal 3D printer, M3DP
SBI Produktion, an Austrian welding systems manufacturer, has released the Metallic 3D Printer (M3DP), a machine that uses a plasma arc to 3D print metal parts. Founded in 1999, SBI started as a manuf…
SAE International releases first specifications for Norsk Titanium Rapid Plasma Deposition
Aerospace additive manufacturing company Norsk Titanium and global standards body SAE International have released the first technical specifications for direct energy deposition (DED)-made parts. Enco…
Additec brings directed energy deposition metal 3D printing to the desktop
Additec, a company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Bremen, Germany, has launched its first metal 3D printer for the desktop. Using laser metal deposition (LMD), a variety of directed energy deposition…
Optomec LENS metal 3D printing systems to be sold to U.S. government
New Mexico metal additive manufacturing specialist Optomec has entered into a partnership with Phillips Federal, a leading machine tool supplier for the U.S. government. Under the terms of this agreem…
ASTM International, Innovate UK, BSI & MTC to co-develop standards metal additive manufacturing
ASTM International, the leader in Global standards, has partnered with Innovate UK, the British Standards Institution (BSI), and the UK Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry, to develop te…
Optomec strengthens metal additive manufacturing hold through acquisition of Huffman
Optomec, the American company behind LENS additive manufacturing and Aerosol Jet Printing technology, has acquired Huffman LLC, a CNC and laser cladding machine supplier and service provider from Clov…
PFW and BeAM partner to industrialize Directed Energy Deposition in the aerospace industry
PFW Aerospace, a German airplane components manufacturer, has partnered with BeAM, a Strasbourg-based 3D printer manufacturer, to industrialize aerospace parts additively manufactured using Directed E…
U.S. DoE applies LENS additive manufacturing to discover better magnets
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Critical Materials Institute (CMI) are using metal additive manufacturing in the hunt for a new material with “exceptional magnetic properties.…
NASA seeks commercialization of new nozzle specific metal 3D printing technology
Laser Wire Direct Closeout (LWDC) is a patented method of metal 3D printing developed by engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Specially created for the…