Additive manufacturing, commonly referred to as 3D Printing, is a technique that is growing in the manufacturing world to make various complex parts and huge designs. What started as a tool for making ...

EmpowerAX is an international and industry-diversified technology platform that seeks to improve industry’s accessibility to additive extrusion technologies and expertise. As explained in the 2021 ...

The additive manufacture of large-volume plastic components is a time-consuming undertaking. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU have now developed ...

In recent years, thermoplastic material extrusion additive manufacturing has grown in popularity by providing users with the ability to manufacture complex geometries from a wide range of materials ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chromatic 3D Materials is launching RX-Flow™, a new line of 3D printers for reactive extrusion additive manufacturing with thermoset polyurethanes. Designed ...

Recycling thermoplastic composites is vital for a circular economy, but it presents challenges such as reduced mechanical properties. The winners of Sampe Young Engineer’s Challenge (YEC) [1], ...

Additive manufacturing of elastomeric materials has gained significant importance due to their unique flexible structures, extensibility, and customizable geometries. This has led to the widespread ...

Manufacturing has gone through a series of major evolutions in the past few years. Subtractive processes (drilling, cutting, CNC milling and turning) and standard formative techniques (injecting, ...

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series exploring additive manufacturing. The Pentagon has poured unprecedented funds into additive manufacturing as a potential game-changer for ...