Coventry-based Sarginsons Industries has become the first foundry in the UK to invest in inorganic 3D sand core printing technology, committing £800,000 to a system capable of producing printed cores at around 54 litres per hour. The move is aimed at cutting the time to a finished aluminium casting from as long as six to…
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From design to quality control, find your next software advantage at AMA Software 2026. Chinese company Guangdong Hengtai New Materials has registered the first phase of an integrated titanium materials project in Maoming, Guangdong Province, with a planned investment of RMB3.837 billion (about US$576 million). According to Guandian, which based its report on Guangdong’s investment…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Prusa Research has started selling the raw polymer pellets behind its Prusament filament in packages of 3.5 kg to 14 kg. It is aiming at users who print directly from granules or run small-scale materials research. The launch, announced October 13,…
Your printers are only part of the story. Explore what software makes possible at AMA Software 2026. JOME Engineering has produced a replacement marine propeller in Dubai using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), reconstructing it from a 3D scan of the original since no CAD files or tooling were available. The 26 kg stainless steel…
Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Braided vascular structures 3D printed from nitinol can be squeezed to half their diameter and still regain more than 90% of their shape. That result comes from an international team led by IMDEA Materials Institute and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).…
Spend less time fixing files. Discover smarter workflows at AMA Software 2026. Creality has opened U.S. pre-orders for the K3, the newest printer in its K Series, with prices starting at $849. The machine is built around KliTek, a four-nozzle system designed to shorten color changes and reduce the filament lost to purging during multi-color…
Affordable printers are taking on production work. Josef Prusa argues that the companies supplying them face a contest increasingly shaped by finance, software, IP and strategic information protection, and procurement, with consequences for everyone using the machines. Join manufacturing technology experts at AMA: Software 2026 this week. Registration is free. Josef Prusa’s concern is that…