Aerospace 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing News
With over a century of history, the Paris Air Show, aka SIAE 2019, aka Salon Le Bourget is now shaping up to be one of the key events for aerospace 3D printing and additive manufacturing industry operators, as the aerospace industry continues to lead in adoption of optimized 3D printed parts. Here you will find the most relevant Paris Air Show 2019 aerospace 3D printing and additive manufacturing news.
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As certification provider TUV SUD explained in a recent interview with 3dpbm, regulators want to make regulations as accessible as possible. In response to the aviation industry’s requests for AM parts, regulators EASA and FAA have been increasingly working together. On November 6th and 7th 2019, the two agencies host…
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SAE International released the first Additive Manufacturing (AM) Polymer specifications for the aerospace industry. AMS7100: Fuse Filament Fabrication Process and AMS7101: Material for Fused Filament Fabrication represent the first specifications released under the AMS-AM Additive Manufacturing Non-Metallic (AMS-AM-P) committee. These standards were created following a request from airlines through the…
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The opportunities in additive manufacturing for civil aviation parts production are beyond question. The number of application cases leveraging AM’s value proposition continues to expand, increasingly driven by some of the largest aviation part suppliers, including GE Aviation, MTU, Rolls Royce, Safran, Honeywell, and others. SmarTech Analysis‘ 2019 Report on…
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The Paris Air Show was a huge success for the largest aerospace players and for many innovative aerospace 3D printing companies. The aviation and space industries are rocketing toward booming growth with no slow down anywhere on the horizon. While additive manufacturing is still just a tiny – to use…
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announced this week that it has chosen Siemens Digital Industries Software to develop aerospace design applications for metal additive manufacturing. The collaboration, to be carried out through the two-year Design4AM project, will leverage Siemens’ end-to-end software solution for industrial AM and be supported by Sonaca, a…
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Carpenter Technology Corporation and Belgium-based BMT Aerospace are cooperating in the development of an additively manufactured (AM) aerospace pinion, using Carpenter Technology’s Custom 465 Stainless. The collaboration was announced at the ongoing Paris Air Show. BMT Aerospace and its subsidiary BMT Additive initiated the project by partnering with Carpenter Technology…
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Prodways Rapid Additive Forging (RAF) technology dedicated to the 3D printing of large dimension titanium parts for aeronautics applications is attracting interest from other industrial sectors. As part of a development project, MBDA, one of the global leaders in defense, has chosen Prodways RAF technology to produce massive titanium parts.…
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GE Additive confirmed at the Paris Air Show that Toulouse-based FusiA Aeroadditive – part of the French group Freyssinet AeroEquipment and the Canadian FusiA Group – will invest in its first GE Additive Concept M2 multilaser system. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As our business scales we…
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At this 2019 edition of the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, there were literally dozens of companies showing off additively manufactured aerospace parts of all types and the keyword here was serial production. But one thing is hearing about them, and another is seeing it up close. There is…
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GE Additive today announced at the Paris Air Show that GE Aviation has made a significant investment in its electron beam melting (EBM) technology, with the purchase of an additional 17 A2X systems and 10 Spectra H systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Avio Aero, a GE…
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