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National Manufacturing Week / Inside 3D Printing 2017 Last week Australias largest trade fair for manufacturing industry was held in Melbourne. Parallel to the event, it was also the Inside 3D Printing conference held at the same Conference and Exhibition Centre. So it was great to see more exhibitors in the field of Additive Manufacturing [AM]  / 3D printing area as at the show two years ago. Interesting in particular was the fact that a few new players in the AM market wer

A summary on trends in metal Additive Manufacturing The FORMMEXT trade show is focusing on Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing took place in Frankfurt from the 17th to the 20th November. What’s news in metal Additive Manufacturing? TRUMPF Trumpf GmbH+Co. KG is a privately held company for manufacturing solutions from Ditzingen Germany. The industry has waited a long time for TRUMPFs come-back in powder bed based laser metal additive manufacturing since the production of

Just back from SME Rapid in Long Beach the INSIDE3D PRINTING Conference and Expo took place in Melbourne. The Inside 3D Printing was part of the AUSTECH, Australias largest trade fair on manufacturing, hosted in Melbournes Conference and Exhibition Center from the 26th to the 29th of May. The event started with good news from the Federal Government in Australia as the Innovative Manufacturing CRC grant got finally approved. This grant will provide AUD 40 Mio. to push R&D

Tuesday, the 2nd day at SME Rapid started with a keynote session of Jason Dunn from Made in Space. Jason took us in his presentation through the whole project, from the early attempts with off-the-shelf machines to the development and operation of a custom system. Jason explained the difficulties the team had to overcome and the very high standards and requirements of NASA. Did you know that an astronaut costs about USD 40k per hour. That’s what you can call high “labour