EOS, its customer YOU MAWO, and Fraunhofer EMI partner up for a comparative lifecycle analysis. The result: 3D printed YOU MAWO’s eyewear shows up to 58 percent lower carbon footprint than conventional eyewear.

High-performance composite materials plus the hybrid additive fusion solution process lower production costs for advanced composite parts

Solvay is working with advanced manufacturing solution OEM 9T Labs AG (Zürich, Switzerland) to help bring additively manufactured carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) parts to mass production.

After 18 months of almost entirely digital encounters, Brinter is excited to participate onsite at the Formnext 2021 Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, on 16–19 November.

‘Hospifactory’ initiative to meet increasing requirement from healthcare institutions for on-demand, localized production of 3D printed medical equipment and anatomical models

UPM Biomedicals and Cellbox have signed an agreement for providing a unique live cell shipment solution. The plant derived and animal-free transport technology for living cell and tissue cultures allows shipping of live 3D cell assays between researchers and pharmaceutical companies.

Delivering high-performance photopolymers for medical devices and more

Hüfingen is a small town on the south-western edge of Germany in the Black Forest. Where others go on holiday, AlfaMerit tinkers with measurement systems, apheresis machines and devices for geotagging that are sold on the international market. Daniel Grüter is the technical director here and in spring 2020 received a request from the neighbouring Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences to develop a hyperthermia device.

Without 3D printing, several processes would be required, taking many hours. Additive also offers the potential for individual customisation, which has obvious benefits for products such as implants.

• Premiere: the Freeformer converts medically approved Evonik PEEK originals into implants

• Added value: customised Wilson baseball bats, fast time-to-market, post-processing
• Sister company InnovatiQ: LAM process for additive LSR components also on show at the Arburg stand

“The skin layer on the model is a tenth of a millimeter and is detached with very small fine instruments, implanted, and then reattached. This level of detail was previously unimaginable.” Alexander Hechenberger, Addion GmbH CEO

Brinter has been developing the granulate-based multi-material 3D printing process as part of the EU Horizon2020 project Novum. The increased concern of environmental issues and technology development has led to growing interest in developing novel, sustainable, yet high-performance materials for industrial additive manufacturing (AM) and for a wide variety of applications such as electrical insulation components and parts for the automotive, marine and medical industry. AM enables rapid and cost-effective manufacturing of complex and lightweight parts without any expensive tools such as moulds.

Widespread access to verifiably accurate, customized 3D anatomic modeling offers physicians fresh insights; connects clinicians and their patients with vital information