3 May 2022

Metal Additive Manufacturing: Don't Tell Me, Show Me
Since 3D Systems commercialized stereolithography 30 years ago, 3D printer manufacturers who invented their own proprietary technology predominantly followed the same business strategy: selling their printers to customers. Until recently, it was the norm for established and rising 3D printing players, both in metal and polymer additive manufacturing, to follow the same path.
Full profile interview
11 Mar 2022

Headmade Materials
Headmade Materials is a German start-up developing a Metal AM standard called Cold Metal Fusion, where metal powders can be printed with selective laser sintering (SLS) printers. IDTechEx spoke with Levent Akbas, chief commercial officer at Headmade Materials, on their technology and materials.
Full profile interview
14 Feb 2022

Graphite Additive Manufacturing
Graphite Additive Manufacturing is a 3D printing service bureau and consultancy based in Aylesbury, UK. IDTechEx spoke with Samuel Persaud, senior project engineer, on Graphite AM's tooling services.
Full profile interview
5 Dec 2021

Materic: 3D Printing
Materic is an advanced materials company based out of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. IDTechEx discussed Materic's 3D Printing activities with Stephen Farias (CEO), Colin Harmer (Business Development Specialist), and Chris Ewing (Director of Sales and Marketing).
Full profile interview
30 Apr 2021

NanoAL
NanoAL develops and commercializes high performance aluminum alloys. In 2020, the company launched Addalloy® 5T, an aluminum powder product for additive manufacturing. IDTechEx spoke with Matthew Simmers (Product Market Director) about this and their market outlook.
21 Apr 2021

Materials Informatics Can Revolutionize the 3D Printing Market
The 3D printing market is diverse; certain materials and applications are seeing significant commercial growth while others are still overcoming technical and economic barriers to adoption.
17 Nov 2020

Desirable Metals for 3D Printing Near Market Readiness
Despite a temporary setback owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for 3D printing of metals is expected to see a significant rise over the next decade. Within that, it is anticipated that most of the revenue will be attributed to material sales.
23 Oct 2020

Key Trends and Recent Innovations in Powder Bed Fusion
Although additive manufacturing (AM) has existed for over forty years, the technology is still progressing as new materials and printing processes continue to be developed.
Full profile interview
8 Oct 2020

Exponential Technologies
Exponential Technologies is a Latvian start-up providing AI-driven design of experiment software for additive manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, biotech, and more. IDTechEx spoke with Matthias Kaiser (co-founder and CEO).
Background
6 Jul 2020

SLM Solutions
SLM Solutions uses powder bed fusion techniques to provide metal 3D printing solutions to its customers. Its selective laser melting machines feature multi-laser options, bi-directional re-coating and closed-loop powder handling to achieve increased build speeds for complex and dense metal parts.
Full profile interview
24 Jun 2020

DMG Mori (Additive Manufacturing division)
DMG Mori produces machines for the additive manufacturing of metal parts using Directed Energy Deposition. This profile focuses on its additive manufacturing activities.
13 May 2020

New Technology Revolutionises 3d Metal Printing
Selective LED-based melting is the name of the new technology that a team has developed for 3D metal printing and has now applied for a patent. The technology is similar to selective laser melting and electron beam melting, in which metal powder is melted by means of a laser or electron beam and built up into a component layer by layer.
External press release
15 Apr 2020

Metal Additive Manufacturing Keeps Getting Bigger
The adoption of metal additive manufacturing is progressing in numerous sectors, with notable use-cases and success stories appearing. The next-generation Sapphire® machine from VELO3D will print up to 1 meter in height, making it the world's tallest laser-powder additive manufacturing system
External press release
24 Jul 2019

BASF Ultrafuse 316L - Metal filament for industrial 3D printing
With Ultrafuse 316L, BASF 3D Printing Solutions launches an innovative metal-polymer composite for Fused Filament Fabrication into the market. It enables the safe, simple, and cost-efficient production of fully metal parts for prototypes, metal tooling, and functional metal parts in the simplest 3D printing process.