15 Dec 2020

3D Printing 2020: A Challenging Year But Fascinating Times Ahead
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the 3D printing sector and its end users (such as printing bureaus), new directions of travel have nonetheless emerged. Some opportunities have even been directly prompted by the pandemic.
11 Aug 2020

9 Materials Science Start-Ups Changing Metal Additive Manufacturing
The metal additive manufacturing market will be negatively impacted by the 2020 pandemic. Despite this short-to-mid-term setback, the industry is forecast to rise and exceed $10Bn within the next 10-years. The emerging and established printer players grab nearly all of the headlines, but most of this forecast annual revenue will be in material sales in which there is great untapped potential.
Update interview
6 Jul 2020

Renishaw
Renishaw has been long-term players in the metal additive manufacturing market with their powder bed fusion (DMLS) technology.
25 Nov 2019

Sandvik and Renishaw Collaborate to Qualify New AM Materials
Renishaw is collaborating with Sandvik Additive Manufacturing to qualify new additive manufacturing materials for production applications. This encompasses a broad range of metal powders, including new alloy compositions that are optimised for the laser powder bed fusion process and which provide superior material properties.
Event summary
12 Aug 2019

Electric Vehicle Research at Advanced Materials Osaka July 2019
Here we give the abstracts relevant to electric vehicles from BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan July 2019. The organisers failed to provide slides but we have photographs of some of these if you are interested. The selected abstracts are divided into energy storage, wide bandgap semiconductors, energy harvesting and other.
26 Jun 2018

Canada's first all-electric underground mine
Borden is set to be Canada's first all-electric underground gold mine, which will be safer for employees and have a smaller environmental footprint.
7 May 2018

Norway's fjords, first zero emission zone at sea
The Norwegian Parliament has announced it will make its world heritage fjords zero emission zones by 2026.
3 May 2018

Electric vehicles for mining will be a $9 billion market in 2028
As mines age and operations continue to extract lower ore grades at deeper levels, a focal shift to increased productivity, efficiency and improved safety continues
Full profile interview
1 Feb 2018

Sandvik
Sandvik AB (publ) operates as an engineering company in the areas of rock excavation, metal-cutting, and materials technology worldwide.
Included are:
Background: Competitors
17 Feb 2017

Carpenter Technology
Sandvik, via its UK based subsidiary Sandvik Osprey, manufacturers and retails metal powders for 3D printing. With annual revenues of around $10bn in total, the company has large resources and vast international reach.
Full profile interview: SWOT
17 Mar 2015

Advanced Powders and Coatings
9 Dec 2013

3D Printing Live!
Our new 3D Printing Live! conference, which took place in Santa Clara on November 20 & 21, was very well received.