In this edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest, we cover new materials, partnerships, reseller deals, Zortrax filing for “restructuring,” and Sintratec closing its busines…
3D printing-powered tunneling machine wins Not-a-Boring Competition 2024
Swissloop Tunneling, a team of students from ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities, has won the Not-a-Boring Competition 2024 with its 3D printing-enabled tunneling technology. The competition was h…
Scrona and Avantama collaboration enables sub-micron inkjet 3D printing
ETH Zurich spin-out Scrona AG and Avantama, a manufacturer of specialty materials for printed electronics, have successfully processed high-performance quantum dot (QD) ink using Scrona’s electrohydro…
ETH Zurich 3D printed reactor cores double solar fuel production
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a 3D printed ceramic structure optimized for use in solar reactor cores. The team has reportedly developed a novel 3D printing methodology that enables the fab…
3D Printing Industry Review of the Year: February 2022
Interested in reading more about the year’s biggest 3D printing news? You can access our full 3D Printing Industry Review of the Year series here. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shook the western world …
NematX launches new NEX 01 Liquid Crystal Polymer 3D printer at Formnext
The 3D Printing Industry Awards 2022 shortlists are now available for voting. Who will win the 2022 3DPI Awards? Have your say by casting your vote now. Swiss extrusion 3D printing start-up …
VoxelDance Additive 4.0 boosts industrial 3D printing productivity
VoxelDance, a Shanghai-based Additive Manufacturing software company, has announced the upcoming release of VoxelDance Additive 4.0 (VDA 4.0). VDA 4.0 is the latest version of VoxelDance’s All-in-One …
UK’s largest ever concrete 3D printed structure built by BAM over M8 motorway in Scotland
Construction firms BAM and Weber Beamix have erected a 3D printed concrete staircase to a footbridge over the M8 motorway in Scotland. Believed to be the largest structure of its kind in the UK,…
ETH Zurich uses 3D printing to build unique ‘hopping’ space robot for exploring asteroids
Researchers at ETH Zurich have utilized 3D printing to build a robot designed for ‘bouncing’ from asteroid-to-asteroid in outer space. Developed alongside colleagues at ZHAW, ETH Zurich’s SpaceH…
AM Coalition calls for improvements to US Congress COMPETES bill for electronics 3D printing
The Additive Manufacturing Coalition (AM Coalition) has sent an advisory letter to the US Congress regarding its recently approved COMPETES bill, which passed through the Senate on 4th February. …