Erasteel has announced that Metallied, the company’s metal powder production facility for Additive Manufacturing powders located in Irun, Spain, has recently added EN9100 accreditation ... Read more »

GeonX SA, Gosselies, Belgium, and the Institute of Photonic Technologies (LPT) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to advance modelling ... Read more »

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) in Dresden, Germany, have announced the development of complex hardmetal tools via Additive Manufacturing ... Read more »

SLM Solutions Group AG will display its range of metal-based additive manufacturing equipment and technology at MSV 2016 International Engineering Fair taking place in Brno, Czech Republic ... Read more »

Airbus APWorks GmbH, Munich, Germany, has announced that it is now certified by TÜV Süd in order to meet the highest security standards required by the aerospace industry ... Read more »

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 »