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AMPM2021 will now take place as a hybrid event
January 26, 2021
The Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference (AMPM2021), scheduled to take place at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, in Orla...»
Bugatti highlights metal Additive Manufacturing in its Bolide hyper-car concept
January 26, 2021
Luxury French carmaker Bugatti, owned by VW group, has announced further use of metal Additive Manufacturing in the development of its state-of-the...»
New furnace orders for Ipsen USA
January 25, 2021
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Illinois, USA, reports that its Vacuum Technology Excellence Center has been awarded two new furnace orders, building on ...»
AM-Austria and EIT Manufacturing East come together to advance innovation in Europe
January 25, 2021
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Manufacturing Co-Location Centre East based in Vienna, Austria, and the Austrian technolo...»
ZARE acquires majority stake in AM dental company Proxera
January 25, 2021
ZARE srl, Boretto, Italy, which merged with BEAMIT SpA in 2020 to become the BEAMIT Group, has acquired a majority stake in Proxera®, an Additive ...»
Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace & Space conference takes place online in February
January 25, 2021
The Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace & Space conference returns for its seventh edition, this time taking place online from February 23–25, 2...»
SLM Solutions signs agreement for the sale of five new NXG XII 600 metal AM machines
January 25, 2021
SLM Solutions Group AG, Lübeck, Germany, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a major European OEM for the sale of five NXG XII 600...»
Sam O’Leary to replace Meddah Hadjar as CEO of SLM Solutions
January 22, 2021
SLM Solutions Group AG, Lübeck, Germany, reports that Meddah Hadjar, the company's CEO and member of the management board, has informed the superv...»
Metal Additive Manufacturing and the new Space Race: The inside track with Launcher and AMCM
In October 2020, New York City-based space technology company Launcher started testing its full-sized E-2 liquid rocket engine, designed to deliver the highest performance at the lowest cost for smaller space launch vehicles.
That the E-2 features a one metre tall single-piece copper alloy Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) combustion chamber is remarkable. What is even more impressive is the fact that Launcher, a company with less than twenty employees, achieved this in a short time frame and to a relatively modest budget.
Metal AM magazine’s Nick Williams reports on the project and Launcher’s close collaboration with specialist PBF-LB machine builder AMCM GmbH.
Falcontech: The journey from materials engineering to large-scale metal Additive Manufacturing
China’s Falcontech Co. Ltd. is well on the way to completing its first ‘Super AM factory’, designed to house fifty metal Additive Manufacturing machines supplied by its partner, Farsoon Technologies.
Whilst the wider story may take in the dramatic rise of Additive Manufacturing in China over the last decade, at the heart of this ambitious project’s success is the story of a successful partnership between an AM technology supplier and its customer.
In this article, Chenlu Fang, Global Marketing Manager of Farsoon Technologies, interviews Shen Yulan, General Manager of Falcontech, and Li Wei, its Sales Director, to tell the story of the company’s rise, its ambitions and the partners’ close collaboration.
Strategies for advancing the automation of metal Additive Manufacturing
In the early days of metal Additive Manufacturing process development, automation was off the radar of machine manufacturers. Technologies created for rapid prototyping simply had no need for it and, until the last decade, few truly anticipated the pace at which Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion and Binder Jetting have evolved in the race towards the series production of metal parts.
In this article, Joseph Kowen reports on how the industry has addressed the challenges of automation so far, and what developments we can expect in the near future.
