Formnext powered by tct is currently taking place at the Frankfurt Exhibition Centre, Germany, until Friday 18th November. The exhibition opened today and is set to be one of the largest dedicated Additive Manufacturing ... Read more »

OR Laser, headquartered in Dieburg, Germany, has unveiled its new Orlas Creator direct metal Additive Manufacturing system on its booth at the formnext 2016 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, November 15-18 ... Read more »

FIT AG, headquartered in Lupburg, Germany, has announced the addition of a state-of-the-art computer tomography (CT) system to its growing inventory of advanced manufacturing technology ... Read more »

Concept Laser, based in Lichtenfels, Germany, has announced the commercial launch of its M LINE FACTORY, offering what is claimed to be a completely new approach in machine architecture with an unprecedented level ... Read more »

BeAM, a French manufacturer of industrial metal Additive Manufacturing machines using the Laser Metal Deposition process, will showcase its new Magic 2.0 and Modulo machines at formnext, Germany, November 15-18 ... Read more »

GKN Sinter Metals has announced it has begun series production of additively manufactured precision automotive parts at its plant in Radevormwald, Germany. The company is using its MetalFAB1 ... Read more »

4WEB Medical based in Frisco, Texas, USA, announced at the annual meeting of the North American Spine Society that the first surgeries utilising the company’s Curved Posterior Spine Truss System ... Read more »

TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK, one of the world’s leading independent research and technology organisations, has been working in metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology development for the last 25 years ... Read more »

The Berlin Mitte plant, operated by the German power company Vattenfall, is using additively manufactured first-stage heat shields and first-stage vanes inside a natural gas turbine used in a large power plant near Berlin ... Read more »

The ExOne Company (NASDAQ:XONE) North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA, has reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2016, which showed continued growth ... Read more »

XJet Ltd., Rehovot, Israel, has announced it will showcase the world’s first Additive Manufacturing system to directly jet metal ink at formnext 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, November 15 – 18, 2016 ... Read more »

Laser manufacturer Trumpf, based in Ditzingen, Germany, has announced it will be showcasing its latest metal Additive Manufacturing systems at the formnext trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany ... Read more »

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA, have demonstrated that permanent magnets produced by Additive Manufacturing can outperform bonded magnets ... Read more »

Methods 3D, Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Methods Machine Tools, Inc. based in Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA, has announced the completion of seven Additive Manufacturing laboratories strategically ... Read more »

Germany’s FH Aachen and Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT have announced the development of a new low-cost Selective Laser Melting (SLM) unit that will be displayed at this year’s formnext, Frankfurt ... Read more »

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has announced that Carl Deckard, inventor of Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), will receive its Innovators Award at the 2017 AMUG Conference, to be held in Chicago, Illinois, March 19 – 23, 2017 ... Read more »

General Electric has completed testing a demonstrator engine designed to validate additive manufactured parts in its Advanced Turboprop (ATP) system, which will power the new Cessna Denali single engine aircraft ... Read more »

GE (NYSE:GE) has reached an agreement to acquire a 75% stake in Concept Laser GmbH for $599 million (€549 million). The agreement allows for GE to take full ownership in a number of years ... Read more »

GE (NYSE:GE) announced on October 27 that it has changed the terms of its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Arcam AB of Sweden and has extended the acceptance period until 5 pm CET on November 10 ... Read more »