When it comes to using Additive Manufacturing to develop functional prototypes of metal and ceramic parts, Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is rapidly becoming a fast and cost-effective option ... Read more »

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), headquartered in Aachen, Germany, has reported that it is coordinating an NRW Leitmarkt Project which is called MultiPROmobil ... Read more »

Context, a supplier of market intelligence and analytics headquartered in London, UK, has released its ‘AM3DP Materials Utilisation Report’, which examines the Additive Manufacturing materials ... Read more »

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a grant of $2.3 million to Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan, USA, to develop its ... Read more »

The first International Conference on Progress in Digital and Physical Manufacturing (ProDPM’19) will take place in Leiria, Portugal, from October 2–4, 2019, organised by the School of Technology ... Read more »

EMO Hannover 2019 will be held at Deutsche Messe in Hannover, Germany, from September 16–21, 2019. Organised by the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW), Frankfurt, the biennial EMO ... Read more »

The theme of this year’s purmundus challenge will be ‘Beyond 3D printing’, the organisers have announced. The competition, which is sponsored by Germany’s VDMA, is described as the ‘international trend radar ... Read more »

The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is collaborating with a consortium of six other companies on the £1.2 million DigiTool project, which aims to improve the lifespan ... Read more »

Euro PM2019, set to be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from October 13–16, 2019, will this year include a series of ‘Campfire Meetings’ – relaxed group meetings designed to facilitate discussion on a particular ... Read more »

A group of researchers at tungsten specialist Wolfmet, Manchester, UK, have developed a method to additively manufacture complex tungsten components for high-precision applications such as collimators ... Read more »

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing (IFAM), Bremen, Germany, will host a workshop on Sinter-Based Additive Manufacturing this September 18–19, 2019 ... Read more »

Innovate UK has organised a free Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) event titled ‘Introduction to powder handling issues in Additive Manufacturing’, to be held at the AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre ... Read more »

The European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen) will host a Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, from September 16–18, 2019 ... Read more »