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 »

Earlier this month the German city of Hamburg played host to the World PM2016 Congress & Exhibition event, 9-13 October 2016. The ‘World Series’ event, organised and sponsored by the EPMA ... Read more »

Farleygreene, based in Hampshire, UK, is a designer and manufacturer of state of the art sieving equipment and technologies. The company has announced a new metal powder sieving system that it is targeting specifically ... Read more »

Concept Laser, Lichtenfels, Germany, is now offering advanced users of its AM machines the option to view and freely modify all parameter characteristics through its CL WRX Parameter system ... Read more »

This year, the formnext powered by tct conference will once again bring together leaders from the world of Additive Manufacturing. The conference takes place within the formnext exhibition, which runs from November 15-18 ... Read more »

Altair, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA, has announced it will showcase the latest versions of its software at this year’s formnext powered by TCT, in Frankfurt, Germany, November 15-18 ... Read more »

Arcam AB has announced that its powder manufacturing subsidiary AP&C in Montreal, Canada, has begun to build its second powder plant in Saint-Eustache, Québec. AP&C, a producer of plasma atomised ... Read more »

LPW Technology Ltd, based in Runcorn, UK, has announced plans to invest over £20 million in a new UK based facility to manufacture metal powders for the Additive Manufacturing industry ... Read more »

Prodways, headquartered in Les Mureaux, France, has announced it is developing a new metal 3D printing process using metal powder combined with organic binders. The company’s R&D team ... Read more »

The first International Congress on Welding, Additive Manufacturing and associated Non-Destructive Testing (ICWAM) is to be held in Metz, France, May 17 – 19, 2017. The congress is co-organised by Institut de Soudure ... Read more »