O.R. Lasertechnologie GmbH, Dieburg, Germany, has developed an automated powder nozzle for existing laser welding systems that enables use of Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) ... Read more »

Optomec, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, has launched a new machine tool series that integrates the company’s LENS metal Additive Manufacturing technology into conventional CNC ... Read more »

LPW Technology Ltd, Runcorn, UK, has announced the appointment of Andrew Florentine as the company’s Technical Director. Florentine will head the team developing LPW’s PowderLife ... Read more »

A new book titled ‘Additive Manufacturing of Titanium Alloys: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities’ by Bhaskar Dutta and Francis H Froes, has been published by Butterworth-Heinemann ... Read more »

PyroGenesis Canada Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec, has reported that its revenues decreased 47% in the second quarter 2016, compared to the same period in the previous year ... Read more »

Additive Manufacturing software developer Materialise NV, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, has announced it is collaborating with the Industrial Technology Research Institute ... Read more »

GE has provided further information on its plans to acquire two suppliers of metal Additive Manufacturing equipment, Sweden’s Arcam AB and Germany’s SLM Solutions Group AG, for $1.4 billion ... Read more »

GE has announced plans to acquire SLM Solutions Group AG based in Lübeck, Germany. SLM produces laser machines for metal Additive Manufacturing with customers in the aerospace ... Read more »

Arcam AB has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously recommended that the company’s shareholders accept an offer made by GE to acquire the Swedish company. The offer values Arcam’s ... Read more »

Renishaw, the global engineering and technology company headquartered in Gloucestershire, UK, has announced it will be exhibiting in at this year’s TCT Show + Personalize, September 28 – 29, 2016 ... Read more »

EOS introduced its EOSTATE MeltPool solution as an add-on to the EOS M 290 DMLS system towards the end of 2015. The system was developed to allow complete part traceability as well as an automated ... Read more »

The world’s leading metal powder suppliers, including a significant number with activities in metal Additive Manufacturing, will be exhibiting at the World PM2016 Congress, Hamburg, Germany, from October 9-13, 2016 ... Read more »

Elcan Industries, based in Tuckahoe, New York, USA, has reported that its new Hi-Sifter screening machines, originally developed for the pharmaceutical and food industries, are proving to be well suited to the metal AM industry ... Read more »

SLM Solutions has reported that its metal Additive Manufacturing technology was used to help develop custom handlebars for France’s cycle team at this year’s Olympic Games in Brazil ... Read more »

Process monitoring in the Additive Manufacturing process has been the recent focus of researchers at Fraunhofer IKTS, Dresden, Germany. The team, led by Dipl .-Ing. (FH) Christian Wolf ... Read more »

Mitsui Seiki USA, Inc., Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsui Seiki Kogyo Co., Ltd, has developed new machining technology that successfully combines both an additive and subtractive process ... Read more »

EOS will introduce its latest EOS M400-4 metal Additive Manufacturing system at the IMTS show in Chicago, USA, September 12-17 2016. Designed for industrial applications, the quad-laser system expands the company’s ... Read more »

Atomising Systems Ltd and Perdac Ltd (now part of CPFResearch Ltd) have announced that the Atomisation for Metal Powders intensive short course will take place in Manchester, UK, February 23-24, 2017 ... Read more »

The discounted delegate rate for early registration to the World PM2016 Powder Metallurgy Congress and Exhibition ends on September 2, 2016. Organised and sponsored by the European Powder Metallurgy Association ... Read more »