Explore the latest news in Additive Manufacturing with AM Chronicle’s round up of Week 18 of 2024.
The round up of last week includes introduction of innovative 3D printed Dummy Ballot Unit by IIT Guwahati; 3YOURMIND is partnering with RusselSmith; ARRIS raises $34 million in latest fundraising round ; GE Additive Rebrands as Colibrium Additive and much more.
IIT Guwahati Introduces Innovative 3D Printed Dummy Ballot Unit
IIT Guwahati and SVEEP collaborated to unveil a 3D-printed dummy ballot unit, aiming to educate citizens about voting intricacies, boost confidence, and enhance democratic participation.
3YOURMIND Partners With RusselSmith to Develop Additive Manufacturing Hub for Oil & Gas
3YOURMIND is partnering with RusselSmith, the first industrial additive manufacturing provider in West Africa, to enhance the identification, digitization, and additive manufacturing of parts for the upstream oil and gas industry. \
AFRL researchers pave the way to a new way of manufacturing rocket engines
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Rocket Propulsion Division, recently designed, printed, built and hot fired a first-ever, single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber additively manufactured using a process called laser powder directed energy deposition, or DED.
ARRIS raises $34 million in latest fundraising round
ARRIS, an advanced manufacturer with a technology enabling the highest-performing fiber-reinforced composites, at scale, has raised $34 million in its latest fundraising round. The funding will be used to scale ARRIS’ global operations and accelerate the adoption of the company’s Additive Molding technology.
WarpSPEE3D Printer at NJII’s Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering Training (COMET) Initiative Offers Training to Print Large-Scale Metal Parts Quickly
GE Additive Relaunches as Colibrium Additive
GE Additive has officially been rebranded as Colibrium Additive—a GE Aerospace company. As part of the transition, it was also announced that the Concept Laser and Arcam EBM legacy brands will be retired.
New Advanced Manufacturing Opportunity for Hydropower Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today opened a new technical collaboration opportunity for industry partners interested in developing innovative hydropower technologies using advanced materials and manufacturing.
Breaking Boundaries in Powder-Based Additive Manufacturing Technology Earns CAREER Grant
Amir Mostafaei, assistant professor of mechanical, materials, and aerospace engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has earned a five-year, $600,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his research developing new powders for additive manufacturing.
Kings 3D launches 4 new 3D printers based on 4 product lines
Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Kings 3D has released several new products, adding to its four major product lines: metal 3D printing (metal binder jetting and metal PBF), five-axis additive and subtractive manufacturing (hybrid DED), high-speed line forming (HSLA), and arc additive manufacturing.
MakerVerse adds free 3D printing Technology and Material Advisor tool
MakerVerse has introduced a new additive manufacturing (AM) Technology and Material Advisor tool as a free add-on to its sourcing platform for industrial 3D printed parts.
