Metal Additive Manufacturing
Metal additive manufacturing is the fastest growing area of industrial 3D printing and is continuing on its disruptive journey, overcoming major challenges and seeing faster movement into true serial production applications.
This trend is spurring more healthy growth in the segment, despite temporary slowdowns experienced at the end of 2016. Now the metal additive manufacturing market appears to be entering its next major phase of growth, with the established area of metal powder bed fusion technologies undergoing major changes to address costs and volumes limitations, and an emerging market coalescing around new bound metal printing technologies.
Relevant Initiatives in this metal additive manufacturing include end-to-end process optimization for both powder bed (SLM, EBM) and powder fed processes (DED, LMD) by all major manufacturers including GE (Concept Laser and Arcam), EOS, 3D Systems, SLM Solutions, Trumpf, DMG Mori and more. Another interesting area of growth is the development of production-ready metal binder jetting technologies and bound metal technologies from major new entry players such as Desktop Metal, HP and GE – along with polymer market leader Stratasys’ own initiatives.
Latest metal additive manufacturing news:
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ExOne, the metal binder jetting pioneer, has been significantly expanding activities lately. As more and more companies – both multinational corporations and startups – get involved and invest in expanding the availability of metal binder jetting, demand for the technology’s high productivity potential grows. ExOne is benefiting by putting two…
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GSD Global, an engineering and design consultancy specializing in premium e-bikes, has teamed up with Swedish engineering company Sandvik to improve e-bike production using titanium additive manufacturing. Together, the companies have developed a 3D printed motor node, which is both significantly lighter and cheaper to produce compared to the traditionally…
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VELO3D, the developer of support-free metal 3D printing technology, has today announced it received a $20 million order from an existing aerospace customer. The order for its metal additive manufacturing systems is the largest it has received since its commercial launch in September 2018. The $20M order announcement comes right…
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Australian metal additive manufacturing company Titomic is changing up its Board of Directors, with the announcement that its current Chairman, Philip Vafiadis, is retiring. Titomic Founder Jeff Lang has been appointed as Interim Executive Chairman, while the company has also added two new members to its Board of Directors: Dag…
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VELO3D, a California-based metal additive manufacturing company, has just revealed it has secured $12 million in funding from new strategic investors. The news, which was announced in a brief LinkedIn post this morning, follows a recent Series D funding round in April, through which VELO3D raised $28 million. With the…
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Intech Additive Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (formerly Intech DMLS), a metal additive manufacturing company based in Bangalore, has appointed Pradeep Nair as Vice President of Hardware Sales for APAC and ME Asia. Nair is a veteran of the AM industry and played a vital role in introducing the technology to the…
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Bound Material Powder Deposition (BMPD) technology, involving direct nozzle extrusion, has been under development for some years as an alternative to filament processing. The Medpimould wax-based low-binder feedstock for medium pressure powder injection molding by the Swedish company Goceram AB have recently been verified to use for this type of…
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3DEO confirmed that the company has shipped 150 thousand AM production parts for end-use applications. This represents a significant milestone for the company, which was founded in 2016 specifically to compete in high-volume metal manufacturing markets against conventional manufacturing techniques like CNC machining and metal injection molding. “150 thousand parts…
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Falcontech, a leading Chinese provider of metal additive manufacturing services, plans to dramatically scale up its production capacity with the acquisition of 50 metal 3D printing systems from China-based Farsoon. While 50 machines is a more long term goal to realize its Super AM Factory vision, the company does plan…
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Desktop Metal has announced a new collaboration with Cetim, the France-based Technical Centre for Mechanical Industry. The partners will work together to promote and accelerate the global adoption of metal additive manufacturing across industrial sectors by identifying market opportunities for AM and supporting innovation across Cetim’s customer network. As part…
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