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3D-Printed Homes Get Boost From Montana

21st Century Tech

Montana this month gave a City of Billings contractor approval to build homes using 3D-printed walls for new construction in the state. The technology Tim Stark, the contractor, is using comes from Apis Cor , a Florida-based technology company that emphatically states on its website, “We print 3D buildings.”

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AML3D to supply additional 3D printed components under Boeing contract

AU Manufacturing

Wire additive manufacturing company AML3D is expanding the scope of its 3D printed components supply for Boeing to further develop its strategic partnership with the aerospace company. . The new purchase agreement is on standard commercial terms. .

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3D printing — driving business in the automotive sector

AU Manufacturing

As such, for various applications, 3D printing is a good fit, allowing the manufacture of impossibly complex geometries in a variety of robust materials in a speedy and cost-effective fashion. I bought my fist printer in 2016. At the time 3D printing was viewed by many as a hobby or, at best, a prototyping tool.

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Micro Additive Manufacturing: BMF Raises $43M Series C

Additive Manufacturing

Since its founding in 2016, BMF has been addressing the need: small, high precision parts made with additive manufacturing. BMF has changed that paradigm with its microArch 3D printing systems, built upon patented Projection Micro Stereolithography (PµSL) technology that enables ultra high-resolution parts (down to 2?m)

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Learning From Additive Manufacturing Qualification In The United States Marine Corps 

Additive Manufacturing

What does that mean for the qualification of 3D printed parts? reflected on the adoption of 3D printing, “There are over 400 3D printers in the field with Marines, more than any other service or global military combined.” Most of these printers capable of printing green bin parts are polymer.

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Cloning Metal Parts for Space and Earth: Software for modeling metal parts before 3D printing speeds development, cuts costs for NASA and business

Additive Manufacturing

It’s not, though, especially if that part is to be built by a 3D printer. Additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – can save weight, time, and money and often produce sturdier parts than otherwise possible. One way to prove them is with software that creates a digital version, or “clone,” of the part to be printed.

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Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism & Enterprise to Provide Opening Address and Keynote Speech at Scotland’s Premier Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition

i4.0 today

Mr McKee has been MSP for Glasgow Provan since May 2016. Inspire 3D. This is a great honour as McKee’s career has involved a number of senior roles in manufacturing and business, managing companies in the UK, Poland, Finland, Croatia and Bosnia. In his early career McKee spent two years with VSO in Banglades. Kerry Logistics.