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The theme for this year’s purmundus challenge 2021, the international competition for design in 3D and 4D printing, is “Innovation in progress”. Contestants will be asked to highlight how 3D and 4D printing have become established in both industry and research, as drivers of development, sources of inspiration, enablers, and…
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America Makes launched a new Open Project Call (OPC) worth $1.6M in total funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Manufacturing and Industrial Base Technology Division. The OPC goal is to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative, cost-effective, and energy-efficient additive manufacturing (AM) technologies…
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Ireland’s specialist post-Doctoral training center for metal additive manufacturing, the SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems, or AMSCDT, has won the Education Laboratory of the Year Award. The winners of the 2021 Irish Laboratory Awards were revealed in front of a live digital audience, on April 29th.…
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The future of space exploration depends on humanity’s ability to extract resources in space. In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) will be key to supplying future explorers with food, shelter, energy, water and air. While ISRU is a futuristic concept, it has great potential for accelerating key technologies on Earth. The European…
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The largest international design competition of its kind for advanced manufacturing is launching for the sixth time and bundles as an innovation monitor for the latest developments in the AM industry. The competition has a special feature in the context of “3DPC & Friends”. The 3D Pioneers Challenge will once…
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While 2020 turned out to be a year of disrupted supply chains and lifestyles, working from home drove unexpected digital collaboration and strengthened creativity and innovation. Ultimaker celebrated this collaboration by launching its inaugural Innovators List: a recognition of the most unexpected, game-changing and inspirational uses of 3D printing across…
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Wevolver, in partnership with advanced materials company polySpectra, announced Heath Townsend as the winner of the Make it Real 3D Printing Challenge. Townsend, founder of Evol Components, will receive $25,000 worth of additive manufacturing services to realize his company’s idea for a motorbike bracket as a physical product. The bracket is…
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The Moorhuhn bicycle frame design took first prize at the eighth Purmundus 3D and 4D printing design awards, that were presented at the digital Formnext Connect exhibition. In total, seven submissions won awards on this year’s theme, geometry and material in harmony, but all thirty-five finalists will present their designs…
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LafargeHolcim is calling on the world’s brightest students to reinvent the building industry, along with its partner Witteveen+Bos, a Dutch engineering and consultancy firm and with the support of COBOD and Ecole des Ponts. Students in engineering, architecture, and material science are encouraged to join in a construction 3D printing…
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The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office concluded its first ever Advanced Manufacturing Olympics, a virtual event coalescing a broad community of experts from industry, academia and government to see all the possibilities for how advanced manufacturing can be deployed across the Department of Defense and Air Force. The virtual…
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