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Over the last five years FORMNEXT has become one of the most important shows of Additive Manufacturing industry. FORMNEXT took place for the fifth time in Frankfurt Germany. Over the last five years the show has grown to a total of 852 exhibitors. This year more than 34 500 visitors attended over the 4 days. So it has become a real magnet for the Additive community. This year FORMNEXT was held on four floors in two connected halls with more than 50 000 square meters.Visitors

Last week RedCabin hosted in collaboration with BigRep and Voxeljet the Global Additive Application Summit. Global Additive Application Summit The Global Additive Manufacturing Summit was opened with welcome words by Tim Wischeropp (Head of Department AM Design & Quality Assurance, Fraunhofer IAPT ) and Martin Back (Managing Director of BigRep). Tim provided a good overview of the various activities in research and industrialization of Additive Manufacturing technologies at t

Middle of May the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) organised the Seminar ‘Powder Based Metal Additive Manufacturing Technologies‘ The seminar was hosted by the Centre for Additive Manufacturing – Metal (CAM2) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Covered were the entire metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) process chain, from metal powders, Design for AM, the different metal AM processes, quality assurance, standardization in AM to post-treatment proce

Just a quick summary and a few impressions from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Center (AMGC) event ‘Advanced Manufacturing in 2019 and access to capital’ at University of Technology Sydney this Tuesday. Speakers and topics varied a lot and were not all about finance… Credit: Twitter @AnnaParadowsk After the welcoming words by Michael Sharpe, AMGC and Mr. Michael Blumenstein from UTS the about 80 attendees learned from a range of speakers of the NSW State Government about

Global overview of conferences and trade fairs for Additive Manufacturing technologies in 2019 29.01. – 31.01 ISAM 2019 Dresden Germany 29.01. – 31.01. Additive Manufacturing Strategies Boston (MA) United States 06.02. – 07.02. 3rd Annual Military Additive Manufacturing Summit & Tech Showcase Tampa, USA 11.02. – 12.02. Conventional HIP and Rapid Cool HIP Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 18.02. – 21.02. 5th International Conference on Powder Metallurgy APMA 2019 Pune, India 21.02. – 23.0

SKY’S NOT THE LIMIT ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING in AEROSPACE INDUSTRY Peter Sander Manager ‘Emerging Technologies & Concepts’ at AIRBUS Operations GmbH Germany gave a keynote presentation on Additive Manufacturing at AIRBUS at this years (2015) RapidTech in Erfurt Germany. The presentation was recorded and uploaded to Youtube. Unfortunately this presentation was held in German . So I took the time on a long flight to write this translation. I have translated the presentation as