Additive manufacturing

Siemens has invested £27 million in a new UK additive manufacturing facility that will produce components for the aerospace, automotive and power generation industries

Global Advanced Metals and LPW Technology have partnered to demonstrate the benefits of using spheroidised tantalum in laser additive manufacturing

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT has developed an inline system for testing, qualifying and adjusting the focused powder jet of the nozzles of laser metal deposition (LMD) machines

GE Additive has announced that its subsidiary Arcam AB has delisted from the Nasdaq (Stockholm) exchange

GE Additive has appointed new CEO and vice president Jason Oliver to lead its operations, including those of its subsidiaries Concept Laser, Arcam and GeonX

The Fraunhofer focus project, FutureAM, which over the next three years aims to establish the prerequisites for advances in metal additive manufacturing (AM), was launched in November by Fraunhofer ILT

Trumpf has reported that its UK sales performance over the year 2016/17 was as impressive as that of the overall company, with an order intake of £57.1 million

A novel curing process for 3D printing plastic components without support structures has been developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and Rapid Shape, which will be shown at Formnext

GE Additive has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK engineering group GKN to collaborate on part development projects on powder bed machines