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Putting together my previous blog post made me poignantly aware that the majority of additive manufacturing vendors (those that manufacture ...

As usual, I have been spending some time looking at the breadth of 3D printing (3DP) / additive manufacturing (AM) applications ‘out there’....

The announcement that the new file format for 3D printing has been approved by the ASTM F42 committee went live a few weeks ago. The success...

The last few weeks & months have moved breathtakingly fast around the world of 3D printing. Particularly since the Maker Faire event in ...

The interview with EADS on BBC's Breakfast programme yesterday, with the full Airbike demo, had me instantly reaching for my phone to tw...

The fog is starting to clear following a successful TCT event at the Ricoh Arena earlier this week. This is a show that I have been involved...

On Tuesday the news broke that 3D Systems had acquired Bits from Bytes (BfB). This strategic move is not surprising in itself, and is precis...

This recent post by Brock Hinzmann on the rp-ml list really struck a cord with me: " I've always found it interesting that artist...

So a few days away from it all, with the smart bit of my phone switched off, and I come back to three new additive manufacturing (AM) machin...

With its presence at the upcoming International Conference on AM at Loughborough in July, Sciaky is taking it's EBFFF technology into th...

Commissioned to find and write a compelling case study on the BFB RapMan, I knew it would not be a hard brief, in that uptake is pretty rapi...

As a long term advocate of additive technologies I have been through the peaks and troughs associated with an emerging sector. However, I ha...

The chatter about whether or not 3D printing and/or AM is or will become mainstream has been centre stage again of late. Is it mainstream no...

Today Optomec will introduce its Aerosol Jet Display Lab System to the American market at the FlexTech 2010 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, ...

As the Editor of the TCT Magazine I was a 100% advocate of additive layer technology. Partly because it was my remit and partly because I ca...