Today, in our Sliced roundup of all the latest 3D printing industry news, we take a look inside some 3D printed houses, uncover progress on the coveted field of organ 3D bioprinting, and collect the latest materials and hardware releases to keep you, the most well informed readers in the industry, up to date.
News releases in this edition feature Ford, Impossible Objects, PyroGenesis, Collplant, MIT, eSun, Solvay, Ultimaker and more.
3D printing hirings and business deals
In a series of new hirings across the industry:
– Jamie Hanson has become the vice president of business development at LMD and electronics 3D printing companyOptomec。
– Advanced manufacturing and metal 3D printing service provider全球弧形集团, will see Alan Quasha, Chairman of the Board of Directors, assume the dual roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer upon the resignation of Interim CEO Drew M. Kelley.
- 凯文·罗德斯（Kevin Rhodes），在线视频托管平台的首席财务官Brightcove, has confirmed ina LinkedIn post他下个月将离开公司加入获奖3D printer providerMarkforged.
- 乌尔夫·林德（Ulf Lindhe）加入了Formlabsas Head of Business Development, EMEA. Lindhe has significant industry experience to his new role having previously held positions at Autodesk, FIT and Arcam.
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In the terms of a new partnership, SolidWorks Americas Value Added Reseller鹰岭系统要开始销售UniontechSLA 3D printers as part of their product offering. “With the addition of UnionTech 3D printers, Hawk Ridge Systems is now positioned to meet comprehensive requirements for 3D printers across a wide variety of additive manufacturing needs,” commented Cameron Carson, Hawk Ridge Systems VP of Engineering.
On 30 April 2018PyroGenesis, a commercial developer of plasma torch products including metal powders for additive manufacturing, announced itsfinancial results for Q4 and FY 2017。In the accompanying statement, President and CEO P. Peter Pascali cites the company’s ascention to the additive manufactuing market as a contributor to the company’s position for the coming year:
“2016 was a pivotal year for PyroGenesis as the Company decided to re-enter the market for metal powder production (this time for additive manufacturing),”
“2017 became the year in which the Company went from relative obscurity within the additive manufacturing industry to being nominated for “Materials Company of the Year” at the 3D Printing Industry Awards 2018.”
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Composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM) technology developer and providerImpossible Objects已经签署了福特汽车公司as a customer. Recenlty, the car manufacturer bought two Impossible Objects Model One 3D printers which it will use in research and development.
AndInkbit, a new MIT 3D printing startup, has maved to bigger premises in Medford, Massachusetts.
3D printing the human body
与往常一样，医疗3D打印是一个快速发展的创新领域。
Open Bionics，一家收到的英国公司3D印刷假肢创新100万美元在2017年带来了其疾病英雄臂进入市场。
In Anacortes, Washington,Million Waves Projectis 3D printing recycled waste plastic to giving prosthetic limbs to children in need for free.
3D生物打印产妇开发人员胶结植物已经完成了与Alpha Capital Anstalt的投资协议的第三次也是最后一项，以前rasied $5 million for the company。套装首席财务官Yehiel Tal comments,“With this last phase of investment, we are concluding a series of rounds of financing over the past seven months in CollPlant totaling approximately800万美元,”
“The main use of proceeds of these funds were for the establishment of a new cGMP production facility in Israel, the investment in the development projects that we have with 3D bio-printing of tissues and organs, R&D, sales and marketing and working capital and general corporate purposes.”
In面试National Georgraphic安东尼·阿塔拉（Anthony Atala）维克森林大学再生医学研究所（wfirm）已更新器官3D打印进度。So far, the lab has “grown bladders, blood vessels, and many other anatomical parts that have been implanted into patients.” According to Atala, in the future, “Printing at least parts of the human heart should be possible,” but he says we won’t see part of the brain any time soon.
New 3D printer materials: eSun, Solvay, Royal DSM, Ultimaker, Roboze, Carbon
eSunhas released a reusable material spool package for FFF 3D printers: Refilament + Respool + eBOX. Respool is the company’s answer to therefillable Masterspool，纹状体是可以添加到该线轴的材料，它们与Ebox结合在一起，Ebox是一种监视钢管重量的细丝的保护容器。
International chemical groupSolvayhas released three new high performance FFF 3D printer polymers: neat PEEK, 10% carbon fibre-reinforced PEEK, and Radel polyphenylsulfone (PPSU).
皇家DSM, a Dutch multinational company active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials, is expanding their range of SLA and DLP 3D printer materials to include options for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Multi Jet Fusion, Ink Jet and Binder Jet processes. Novamid ID 1030-KS is one of DSM’s new FDM/FFF filaments. It has UL 94 V-0 rating, making it suitable for electrical applications.
DSM也是Ultimaker工程材料发展联盟的一部分，该联盟于发行后推出new S5 3D printer。
And finally in the bumper crop of 3D printing materials news,碳已经宣布了两种新材料，用于其数字光合成技术。高强度工程聚合物中的环氧树脂（EPX）82，具有与玻璃纤维重新覆盖的热量相媲美的机械性能。弹性聚氨酯（EPU）41是EPU 40的新版本，在低 - 房间的温度下更有弹性。
Laying the foundations
400 3D printed plastic blocks form the walls of a cube shaped pavilion made byAZL Architects在中国。整洁的小庇护所占据了杭州汤格县一个村庄的传统石制房屋和住宿加早餐酒店面前的地块，并被委托以促进该地区的旅游业。
同时，在哥伦比亚，Constructora conconconcreto，已经构建了其第一个3D打印的房屋原型，并配有太阳能产生的电力。该过程的视频可以是viewed hereon the company’s Facebook page.
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Featured image shows Sliced logo over AZL Architects’ 3D printed LEI House in front of the stone B&B. Photo via AZL Architects
