Photo Credit: TU Munich Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC) and QPoint Composite This blog began when CEAD (Delft, Netherlands) informed me that LCC had bought one of its extruder-based AM flexbot ...

Using 3D printing technologies for composite tooling is no longer new, though uptake is still limited and there is enormous potential for growth across the composite industry. The last decade has seen ...

The polymer additive manufacturing research team at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, US) reports that it has ...

That appears to be exactly what Proterial is proposing. The patent says the filament contains at least fifty percent by mass thermoplastic polymer, while the reused thermosetting polymer filler can ...

A 3D-printing company plans to print large objects such as boat molds and components as it transitions research performed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center into a ...

In January 2016, researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory started focusing on the ability to 3D-print parts for the Air Force, specifically polymer architectures that can replace heavier and ...

Midwest Composite Technologies Inc., a Hartland, Wis.-based 3D printing company, has acquired ICOMold LLC, a custom injection molder based in Holland, Ohio, near Toledo. Terms of the deal were not ...