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Seurat Sees Demand for 25 Tonnes of 3D Printed Metal Parts https://ift.tt/rOjyJAM U.S. metal 3D printing startup Seurat Technologies has reported that it already has demand for 25 metric tonnes of metal parts, filling the capacity for the firm’s pilot plant. This is more than they have capacity for. The company has signed Letters of Intent (LOI) with three manufacturers in tooling, energy and transportation. Parts are being qualified and the company hopes to start manufacturing parts in 2023.  Seurat engineer developing Area Printing manufacturing technology. Image courtesy of Seurat Technologies.
This is a validation for the firm’s go-to-market strategy, which consists of it deploying its area manufacturing powder bed fusion (PBF) technology in its own facilities and selling long-term capacity to large industrial firms. So, it’s not a service bureau and also not an OEM, but also not exactly an OEM that incubates a service before launching a machine. Seurat hopes to deploy its technology itself in an ever-expanding series of production plants that it will gradually expand. This kind of control and vertical integration is sure to appeal to investors. However, we were unsure if long-term deals on demand and continued production would be amenable and attractive to enough companies for Seurat to extend its production growth. It now seems that the firm has validated its approach, at least for now. This should be a wake-up call to 3D printing services and OEMs as it may mean that there is much more capacity out there in deals that could be attractive for them. For now, Seurat is expanding the pilot facility into a factory with 100,000 sq. ft in floor space, powered by 100% green energy and capable of producing 500 tonnes of parts a year. Again, these kinds of volumes should point to significant interest from players such as GKN, Oerlikon and EOS.  Seurat’s metal AM part. Image courtesy of Seurat.
Seurat CEO James DeMuth said of the development:
The company is positioning itself as a part of a green manufacturing revolution and sees itself as using the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS bill as a springboard to reduce emissions. The company also hopes to “competitively displace traditional manufacturing technologies like machining, casting, and forging, reducing GHG emissions related to waste material and related production energy requirements in addition to freight, transportation, and warehousing.¨  Infographic that illustrates in ten steps the power of Seurat’s patented, game-changing Area Printing technology. Image courtesy of Seurat.
With $79 million in its coffers, the firm’s ambitions look distant. The company will need much more cash to make its complex, high-volume metal 3D printing technology a reality. However, with this milestone the company has at least demonstrated the logic of its approach. At the same time, positioning itself as a local manufacturing provider and a low green house gas alternative will be sure to attract government money as well as media interest. The US has a pressing need to manufacture more of its military kit in-house and more quickly than it has done previously. Reshoring is a definite trend, as well. Companies are looking to it because of nationalism, environmental concerns and supply chain resilience worries. This positioning could be a powerful one. Large firms could see Seurat as a way to solve many supply chain issues by making things greener, closer to home, and at lower volumes. If Seurat can maintain momentum and grow its business there will be an inexorable self-supporting wave of interest in the process. If it can lower costs per part, manufacture on-demand and locally, well then it could essentially autocatalyze its own development and growth. Seurat is one of the most exciting metal startups around today. Along with Mantle, Holo AM, Vulcan Forms and Velo3D, it could change the way that many things are manufactured. The industrialization of metal additive through automation and new technologies is the most important trend happening in our industry. Our future is being made now. The post Seurat Sees Demand for 25 Tonnes of 3D Printed Metal Parts appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 28, 2022 at 07:45AM
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Martha Duncan https://ift.tt/iGFjPkY Edinburgh-based Martha Duncan is an architecture graduate gone designer, printmaker, and illustrator. She started her small business designing art prints at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 as a way to return to her artistic routes. Eversince, Martha has focused on refining her printing techniques, started building ceramics, and developed an irreverent visual language around imagery gleaned from the quirks of everyday life and her love of colour and architecture.
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3D Printing News Unpeeled: Formlabs, Hasbro, AddUp and Collins https://ift.tt/zMLnIF4 Today we learn of Hasbro and Formlabs teaming up to make 3D printed selfie action figures. AddUp and Sogeclair will work with Collins Aerospace to make actuation components for aerospace. The UK´s MOD is looking to stimulate MRO with 3D Printed parts. The post 3D Printing News Unpeeled: Formlabs, Hasbro, AddUp and Collins appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 27, 2022 at 12:31PM
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Raytheon Subsidiary to 3D Print Aerospace Actuation Parts via AddUp-Sogeclair Venture https://ift.tt/0lBjMrU Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace continues to ramp up its long-established additive manufacturing (AM) efforts. This time, it has enlisted PrintSky, a joint venture between French aerospace company Sogeclair and AddUp, to research a new generation of 3D printed flight actuation hardware. 3D Printing New Aircraft TechnologyWith support from the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) as part of the France Relance program, this project is meant to develop novel technologies to improve the sustainability of aviation by 2030. Among the technologies is an electromechanical actuation system that combines sensors, engine, electronic cards, and other parts into a complex assembly. PrintSky will be designing and manufacturing the structures for the system with several key functions in mind. This includes the ability to resist mechanical loads, dissipate heat emitted by the parts, and remain in precise operation while exposed to electromagnetic disturbances. AM could be bring unique advantages to the project, according to Sogeclair New Technologies Manager and PrintSky Manager Nicolas Correge. “Thanks to our technologies, we can optimize the structure of the actuation system and integrate multi-physical functions such as a heater and other peripheral parts,” Correge said. The 3D Printing Partners InvolvedPrintSky was founded in 2019 to develop and manufacture complex metal components with 3D printing. So far, its publicly discussed efforts have included an Inconel turbine disk for a rocket engine produced with the French space agency, the National Centre for Space Studies, and a heat exchanger that it is developing with Liebherr Aerospace under a European Commission grant. Correge said of PrintSky’s capabilities: “PrintSky offers a multifunctional solution for new generation equipment such as heat exchangers and electromechanical components so as to contribute to the transformation of the aeronautics industry and meet decarbonation challenges.”  Hewam heat exchanger exposed on Sogeclair aerospace booth at Paris Air Show 2019. Image courtesy of Temisth.
Sogeclair (XPAR: SOG) itself has been in the business of aerospace engineering, including the development of design and simulation products, since 1962. While Airbus historically represented the majority of its revenues, it has been able to diversify more recently. Airbus represented 60 percent of its profits in 2007 but only 16 percent during the first half of 2021. Established by French firms Fives and Michelin, AddUp is an important player in the 3D printing industry. It represents just one of a handful of manufacturers of both powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition metal 3D printers. It is in the process of targeting a number of specific verticals, from aerospace and automotive to jewelry and mold making. Meanwhile, it is improving the quality of its 3D printers through new automation techniques, while also expanding its footprint globally.  Equipment at the AddUp grand opening of its updated Ohio facility.
Collins Aerospace and its parent company, Raytheon, have been involved in AM for some time. Raytheon has researched heat management technology since at least 2015. Collins is rapidly growing its additive capacity with a new center in North Carolina and an AM extension in Iowa, where it will be housing a massive NXG XII metal 3D printer from SLM Solutions. This complemented by partnerships with Morf3D, owned by Mitsubishi’s Nikon, and Sintavia. What’s most interesting here may be that large conglomerates are turning to and forming additive service bureaus to serve their needs. In some cases, these services are industry specific. Airbus already established Premium AEROTEC and, via AddUp, Michelin and Fives have created PrintSky. Siemens has backed MakerVerse, which supports its energy turbines. Nikon acquired Morf3D and brought satellite part 3D printing in house. By backing these initiatives, the companies reap the immediate rewards of research, development, and the production of parts for their high-cost, specialty applications. At the same time, they are nurturing the creation of new, tangent markets. The post Raytheon Subsidiary to 3D Print Aerospace Actuation Parts via AddUp-Sogeclair Venture appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 27, 2022 at 12:31PM
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Essentium Demos High-Speed 3D Printer at US Navy’s REPTX 2022 https://ift.tt/7qiCND6 Essentium, a Texas-based additive manufacturing (AM) services provider and original equipment manufacturer (OEM), announced that the company successfully participated in the US Navy’s REPTX 2022 exercises, which were held August 22-September 2. REPTX is a showcase for military tech held by the US Navy at Port Hueneme, CA, aboard the US Navy’s Self Defense Test Ship (the ex-US Paul F. Foster, DD 964). Essentium’s demonstration at REPTX revolved around a modified version of the company’s 280i HT 3D printer. Essentium worked with the US National Guard Bureau as well as the US Air Force on augmenting the machine so that it could be field deployable. During REPTX, members of Essentium’s team, along with all the other participants, used a wide range of critical emerging technologies in scenarios meant to simulate battle conditions. 
The 280i relies on Essentium’s version of independent dual extrusion (IDEX) technology. Essentium claims the 280i is the only printer on the market with “true IDEX” technology, meaning each printhead is fully independent on both the X- and Y-axes. Owing to the dual independent printheads, the 280i is not only faster than other extrusion AM technologies, but is also capable of five different print modes. Clearly, as is evident from the fact that Essentium has already worked with the National Guard and Air Force on modifying the version of the printer used at REPTX, the 280i’s versatility and speed make it ideal for military applications. Beyond that, the same qualities make it ideal for any situation where space is at a premium and every machine needs to do as many different things as possible. Moreover, the fact that the modified 280i being used in REPTX was essentially a joint effort between the Air Force, the National Guard, and the US Navy, further highlights the demand for versatility in the AM market. Even at a Navy-centered event, the interest isn’t solely in what can be done for ships, but — for instance — what can be done to repair planes on ships. Similarly, in a deal MatterHackers recently made with the Naval Information Warfare Center, MatterHackers is primarily interested in developing solutions for ground vehicle repairs for the US Marines. Thus, the US Navy’s recently increasing interest in AM has as much to do with the Navy’s place in the military, as a whole, as it does with AM’s relevance to the Navy, specifically. From both angles, then, the most versatile technology and the most versatile branch of the military make a logical fit. Images courtesy of Essentium The post Essentium Demos High-Speed 3D Printer at US Navy’s REPTX 2022 appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 27, 2022 at 08:21AM
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Fans Thrilled with LEGO’s Articulated 3D Printed Duck Minifigure at Denmark Event https://ift.tt/psGwLUy More than 600 LEGO fans from all over the world gathered at the brand’s iconic LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, for the yearly AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) Day, an event for likeminded enthusiasts to meet up, play, listen to panels and meet LEGO builders and engineers behind the 90-year old toy. During the September 22, 2022 event, fans who bought any of three exclusive AFOL Day 2022 minifigures also received a new and unique accessory, a 3D printed minifigure plastic duck. The new minifigure recreates LEGO’s iconic wooden duck pull toy that had become a company symbol since 1935, when Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen, began helping out at the workshop. Production of the wooden duck would go on until the closing of wooden toy manufacturing in 1960 and was later reimagined in modern bricks for the 2020 Wooden Duck set, which is available exclusively at the LEGO House. With this latest 3D printed addition, a classic toy is reimagined once again. 
LEGO’s original wooden duck from the 1930s. Image courtesy of LEGO. As the latest version of LEGO’s classic duck, it has been gaining much attention on social media. For example, Instagram user Marc Philippi showed how the new duck recreates the same functions as the classic version; it has a moving beak that opens and closes when the duck is pushed along. In previous versions of the duck, LEGO achieved this internal mechanism by using a rigid wire for the original toy and a combination of Technic parts for the LEGO brick version of 2020, as reported by Brick Fanatics. However, the same internal function has now been achieved at a much smaller scale thanks to 3D printing and a 3.2 shaft LEGO part on the front, which connects to the minifigure. 
LEGO House duck 2020 set. Image courtesy of The Brick Fan. Although many have described it as the first 3D printed accessory sold by the company, this might not be entirely true. Aside from leveraging AM technology in-house for prototypes and conducting experiments to understand the company’s AM capabilities, particularly in multi-material 3D printing, according to New Elementary, the brand created the first 3D printed piece ever to appear in a LEGO set in 2019. Described as Element ID 6286866|Design ID 66237, the 3D printed part, which represents the arm of a drafting machine, appeared in LEGO’s System House set, which represents the opening ceremony of the company’s flagship office in Billund, built in 1958.
Brickset posted one of the first images of the LEGO 3D printed duck. Image courtesy of Brickset.
The LEGO 3D printed, articulated duck minifigure. Image courtesy of Stuart Harris via Instagram.
Considered a unique, one-of-a-kind piece of LEGO history, the 3D printed duck has only been available for visitors of the AFOL event in Billund, so it was only a matter of time before several of these duck figures ended up being sold at e-commerce sites. For example, the online platform BrickLink has ten 3D printed wooden pull-along duck figures for sale, which start at $450 and run up to €800 ($768). One of the largest fan-run marketplaces of LEGO parts, sets, and minifigures, BrickLink was, in fact, acquired by LEGO in 2019. 
LEGO House in Billund, Denmark. Image courtesy of LEGO House. Exclusive to LEGO House attendees, this tiny element and huge milestone has been greatly complimented since it came out just days ago. It is not only special from a technical standpoint, and for the Additive Design & Manufacturing team in particular but also adds a touch of originality and LEGO history that also make the mini duck a remarkable achievement for every fan of the brand. The post Fans Thrilled with LEGO’s Articulated 3D Printed Duck Minifigure at Denmark Event appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 27, 2022 at 08:21AM
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Zortrax Launches End-to-End Industrial mSLA 3D Printing Platform https://ift.tt/ie8KjNh Zortrax, the leading Polish original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of additive manufacturing (AM) solutions, announced the launch of the company’s latest platform, the Inkspire 2 UV LCD photopolymer printer. Additionally, Zortrax is launching two post-processing machines alongside the Inkspire 2: the Zortrax Cleaning Station and Zortrax Curing Station. The Inkspire 2 is compatible with a number of resins from leading materials manufacturers, including Henkel/Loctite and BASF Forward AM. Zortrax is touting that compatibility, as well as the emphasis that the company has placed on ensuring accuracy in the finishing phase, as attributes that make the Inkspire 2 perfectly suitable for industrial model production — a rarity for resin-based AM platforms, which are generally used solely for making prototypes. 
Also in line with its intended use being for larger-scale applications, is the fact that the new machine is simply more powerful, across the board, than the original. The Inkspire 2’s UV light engine — developed entirely in-house by Zortrax — is seven times more powerful than the one on the Inkspire, supporting the new platform’s ability to handle build volumes up to four times larger. 
At the same time, Zortrax claims that the Inkspire 2 has 40 percent more uniform UV light distribution than its predecessor, while also being even easier to use. Notably, Zortrax worked closely with resin manufacturers on the Inkspire 2 during the platform’s prototyping phase. As the company notes in the press release, the Inkspire 2’s major practical advantage over existing resin-based platforms is that it can be deployed for producing usable industrial parts, rather than solely the prototypes for those parts. One of the biggest selling points of AM, of course, is that it allows the user to streamline the production workflow. Thus, it’s especially impressive that, here, Zortrax is streamlining two AM processes — prototyping on one machine, for models printed from another machine — into a task that can be completed on a single platform. Finally, as I also mentioned last month in a post about another Polish 3D printing OEM, Sygnis, Poland seems uniquely poised, from a sheer geographical standpoint, to benefit from the ongoing re-shaping of global supply chains. For the same reason, the fact that Zortrax has a close relationship with German chemical giants Henkel and BASF puts the company in especially favorable position to see disproportionate gains from a global 3D printing scale-up. In that sense, the company’s focuses on compatibility with the right materials and post-processing are particularly wise. Zortrax has a good shot at making its customer base for its post-processing machines the entire market segment, rather than just existing users of Zortrax platforms. Images courtesy of Zortrax The post Zortrax Launches End-to-End Industrial mSLA 3D Printing Platform appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/TioNLfn September 27, 2022 at 08:21AM
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Additive Manufacturing 2.0 Makes a Splash at IMTS in Chicago https://ift.tt/SAa0pzu The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), the largest and longest-running industry trade show in the Western Hemisphere, returned to Chicago this September. And as pandemic-related supply chain issues remain prevalent, manufacturers gathered in the halls of the McCormick Place for the first time in four years looking for agile manufacturing solutions to help their businesses survive and thrive in challenging production environments – and digital technologies took center stage.
Interest in metal 3D printing remained the driving force of traffic throughout the week, and Desktop Metal, with the most experienced team of metal binder jetting and sintering experts in the world, showcased the broadest range of scalable printing systems and material capabilities.
One highlight of many discussions was the Shop System, the plug-and-play binder jetting system designed for the easy adoption of metal 3D printing. The Shop System is an ideal solution for anybody who wants to produce metal products quickly with an outstanding surface finish and resolution at scale, such as MIM houses and service bureaus. With production rates up to hundreds of green parts per day, the Shop System produces parts up to 10x faster than laser powder bed fusion and many visitors discussed investing as a doorway into the future of metal production. Revealed just before the opening of the expo, the expanded offerings of the Shop System to include discounted pricing on powder and binders for production-level users or expanded access to printing and sintering parameters for advanced metallurgical users to process third-party or proprietary powders meant the Shop System was a viable solution for users with a range of binder jetting experience and requirements. Even more, during the show Desktop Metal announced Nickel Alloy Inconel 625 was now qualified on all its metal 3D printing offerings, including the Shop System.
And aligned with the company’s mission of delivering production solutions across a range of digital technologies, albeit not additive manufacturing, Desktop Metal introduced the first commercial platform to shape sheet metal on demand directly from a digital file. The Figur G15 uses the patent-pending Digital Sheet Forming (DSF) technology in which a software-driven ceramic toolhead on a gantry shapes standard sheet metal into parts with up to 2,000 lbs of force. The theme throughout the week in Chicago was finding production-capable technologies to deliver the combination of speed, tolerance, surface finish, and material properties for high-volume production that competes with conventional manufacturing methods. The tooling-less solutions on display from the Desktop Metal portfolio during IMTS look to deliver parts on demand to help manufacturers of all sizes to move into the next era of digital production.
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Ineke de Vries https://ift.tt/dUQzwC1 As a young girl, born an raised in Friesland, Netherlands, there were two things Ineke de Vries loved in life: art and theatre. Encouraged by her mother, who found out about a new theatre study close to her home town, Ineke started studying theatre. “I loved every aspect of it: acting, directing, writing, creating décor,” says the artist. After completing this course, Ineke decided to get another degree as an art therapist. Although the main focus was on theatre, she also partook in a minor where she dove into art and rediscovered the love she had for it as a kid. Whilst completing this minor, looking for techniques, Ineke saw pictures on the internet of people making rubberstamps out of an eraser. Wanting to experiment herself, she bought a simple gauche and erasers and started to make stamps. Most of the time she focused on creating female faces, practicing this hobby on and off.
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3D Printing News Unpeeled: SLM Solutions 1 Meter Build Volume System & LEGO https://ift.tt/hsqFaWx The Air Force Research Lab is giving $5.2 to SLM Solutions and CTC to make a one meter tall build volume Powder Bed Fusion system, LEGO 3D printing a limited edition brick, Deep Blue Aerospace using Farsoon for rocket propulsion and Agnikul 3D printing a rocket engine out of five components. The post 3D Printing News Unpeeled: SLM Solutions 1 Meter Build Volume System & LEGO appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Printing via 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing https://ift.tt/Tqoc6wu September 26, 2022 at 10:10AM |
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Her work often uses linocut printing techniques and shows Scottish imagery, the illustrated human form, and brutalist architecture in bright and bold colours. Each linocut print that she makes is unique and handmade, with a collection of open edition and limited edition prints.
Experimentation is at the core of her creative ethos, and she is never far away from a sketchbook full of questionable ideas. Her art school education in architecture makes up the backbone of her work and she implements much of her learnings into her practice. Over the past year she has grown a small business selling prints and wares which she hopes to continue expanding.
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After finishing her studies in Art Therapy, she then also gained a degree in Teaching. Ineke then travelled and explored, and in 2017 she set up life in Australia. Whilst settling into her new life Ineke began to miss stamp making, and got all of her equipment shipped over. When her tools arrived Ineke was delighted to get back into creating, and was inspired by printmakers she discovered on Instagram. She found out about some awesome printmakers stores in Melbourne, picked up some better tools, and decided to start printmaking herself. Frida Kahlo was the first print she made, and Ineke hasn’t stopped carving since.
Her practice mainly focuses on portraits. Ineke describes; “I love portraits and it might have started with that one print of Frida, because after that print so many people asked me to make a print of this person and that person. Because of that, I often created prints with (famous) portraits.” It wasn’t until she was joining a ‘printparty’ on Instagram that she started making more prints incorporating scenery. Inspired by each weeks’ prompt, Ineke would search the internet for a scene she had in her head, finding a picture that aesthetically worked ready for her to add her own touch. She still works in the same way today, even with her portraits, taking further inspiration from vintage pictures and people with a fascinating story.
Since September, Ineke has worked as a freelancer. “I would love to be able to live off my lino art work, but for now I still give theatre workshops as well,” states the printmaker. Together with a friend Ineke is renting an office which she has turned into her working space, where she hopes to host workshops too.
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