3D Technologies

The 3D printing industry is constantly evolving, moving more and more towards mass production and the need to optimize production and post-processing processes. As highlighted in the latest report from PostProcess Technologies, which analyzes post-processing trends in 2022, industry users…

Over the past year, we have seen a number of major milestones in the field of microscale 3D printing. Now there has been yet another, as researchers at Stanford University in California have developed a new microscale 3D printing process…

Repeatedly, we’re exposed to the groundbreaking applications of 3D printing within the automotive and transportation industries, showcasing the immense potential of this technology. Numerous car manufacturers have embraced additive manufacturing in their production processes. Take, for instance, the Swedish Volvo…

A wide variety of technologies can be found in the field of additive manufacturing including those able to directly 3D print parts in color. However, this is not the cast for all and most of them tend to create parts…

3D printing continues to advance. The latest innovation comes from a group of researchers from the Beckman Institute in the U.S. who have developed a printing technique capable of delivering results in multiple colors from a single ink. Inspired by…

Back in 2022, leading IDEX 3D printer manufacturer BCN3D made waves when the company announced the new Viscous Lithography Manufacturing (VLM) technology. However, since then, we have heard little about the groundbreaking process. That changed today when BCN3D held a…

What if you could 3D print large-scale metal parts quickly and cheaply? That’s the question posed by a team from MIT, and more specifically the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, who set out to circumvent the current limitations of metal 3D printing.…

Today, many companies in the manufacturing industry still use traditional production methods. That being said, what is known as the fourth industrial revolution is becoming more and more of a reality, leading to the adoption of new methods of creation…

Far from being a gadget or simply a trend, additive manufacturing is a technological revolution, hailed as part of the fourth industrial revolution. As its name suggests, this process works by adding materials. Layers of materials are successively deposited on…

Resin 3D printing, also known as vat photopolymerization, is one of the most popular families of 3D printing technologies. It offers precise, detailed and high-quality results, making it a popular choice in many industrial sectors, such as jewelry, dentistry and…

In additive manufacturing, avoiding print failures is paramount, no matter what technology is being used. And for both those starting out and experienced users, there are various traps that they can fall into which make their part not turn out…

There are numerous additive manufacturing technologies on the market today, each associated with different materials and very specific applications. In this guide, we’ll be talking about binder jetting, which is compatible with a variety of materials, including ceramics and metal.…