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 »

On October 26th GE announced that its offer to acquire Germany’s SLM Solutions Group AG had lapsed. Despite the full support of SLM’s management and supervisory boards, it had been widely reported that two funds ... Read more »

From November 15-18 in Frankfurt, Germany, the formnext 2016 exhibition is anticipated to be the largest and most comprehsnive exhibition on Additive Manufacturing / 3D printing ever held in Europe ... Read more »