The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a statement concerning the Additive Manufacturing of medical products and devices. In the statement, FDA Commissioner ... Read more »

Höganäs AB, Sweden, has acquired the start-up Metasphere Technology, Luleå, Sweden. Metasphere, founded in 2009, has developed a new technology for atomising ... Read more »

GE Additive has opened its first international Customer Experience Center in Munich, Germany. The 2,700 m2 facility, co-located with GE’s European Technology Center, is designed to enable customers to accelerate their ... Read more »

Arcam AB has announced that its President and CEO, Magnus René, and its CFO and deputy CEO, Johan Brandt, have both chosen to terminate their respective employment agreements with the company ... Read more »

GE Power, Schenectady, New York, USA, reports that its largest gas turbine has broken efficiency records thanks to an optimised redesign using metal AM. The GE Power-produced 9HA.02 gas turbine ... Read more »

The Board of Directors of Sweden’s Arcam AB reports that it is initiating a process to explore and evaluate strategic alternatives regarding DiSanto Technology Inc. (DTI) ... Read more »

Additive Industries, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has delivered one of its MetalFAB1 metal Additive Manufacturing systems to the Sauber F1 Team, Hinwil, Switzerland. Delivery of this first ... Read more »

A number of companies specialising in metal Additive Manufacturing have formed the Association for Metal Additive Manufacturing (AMAM), after formal establishment began during POWDERMET2017. ... Read more »

GE and Concept Laser have broken ground on a new ‘3D Campus’ in Lichtenfels, Germany. According to the companies, the 3D Campus will unite research and development along with production, service, and logistics. The new ... Read more »

French-based BeAM Machines, SAS, introduced its new Modulo 400 machine at formnext powered by tct in November, 2017. The Direct Energy Deposition (DED) machine is designed to allow industrial-scale metal ... Read more »

Dr W Brian James, Ph.D., retired, has received the Frank W Reinhart Award from the ASTM International Committee on Metal Powders And Metal Powder Products. James, who joined ASTM in 1986, was recognised for ... Read more »

GKN Hoeganaes Specialty Metal Powders, the advanced materials division of GKN Additive, has added AncorTi™ Beta 21S to its portfolio of AncorAM™ powders for metal Additive Manufacturing. Beta 21S ... Read more »

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen, Germany, has launched its futureAM focus project. The project will run for three years, during which six partners will work closely to significantly develop metal Additive Manufacturin ... Read more »

A hospital in Chongqing municipality, China, has become what is believed to be the first in the world to perform a ‘knee revision’ surgery using a metal additively manufactured joint, reports ... Read more »

VBN Components, Uppsala, Sweden, is launching what it calls “the world’s hardest near-net-shape steel”.  Vibenite® 290 is an alloy with a high hardness and high carbide content (in its fully-hardened ... Read more »

Metalloobrabotka, Russia’s 19th International Exhibition on Equipment, Instruments and Tools for the Metalworking Industry, is set to take place at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia, May 14-18, 2018 ... Read more »

Kittyhawk Products, a Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) service provider based in Garden Grove, California, USA, will add a fifth HIP vessel to its facilities in 2018. The new 46 in x 80 in HIP vessel has pressure capabilities ... Read more »

Registration is now open for the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG)’s 2018 Education & Training Conference, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, from April 8–12, 2018. This will mark ... Read more »

Germany’s Airbus APWorks GmbH has signed a strategic partnership with Toyal, a global producer of aluminium based products. The companies will partner on the development, production and distribution of ... Read more »

OR Laser, Dieburg, Germany, introduced its new hybrid metal additive and subtractive manufacturing platform, the ORLAS Creator Hybrid, during formnext 2017. According to the company, the ORLAS Creator Hybrid ... Read more »