The Chinaplas 2018 organizer is absolutely right when thinks about the visitors that want to locate new exhibitors. This could have been a problem when they were thinking about the possible problems of the visitors from an exhibition that is
CHINAPLAS 2017, Asia’s No. 1 and World’s No.2 plastics and rubber trade fair, is an end-user-oriented trade fair focusing on “Intelligent Manufacturing, High-tech Materials and Green Solutions“. In recent years, the percentage of plastics used in a car has become
MATERIALISE: Expansion of Polish Facility to Meet Growing Demand and Enhance Competence / Completion due in May 2017 Belgium’s Materialise (Leuven; www.materialise.com), a provider of 3D printing software and solutions, is expanding its facility in Wroclaw / Poland. The move
STRATASYS HELPS A SURGEON SAVE MORE KIDS Shaping Young Hearts At Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, director of pediatric cardiovascular surgery Redmond Burke dedicates his intellect and his hands to repairing tiny hearts. Burke performs challenging operations, often for children
PVC Filament Launched for 3D Printing Market by CHEMSON: Austrian additive manufacturer Chemson Polymer-Additive (Arnoldstein; www.chemson.com) has developed what it calls the world’s first PVC filament suitable for the 3D printing market. The company said it spent more than two
3D printed clitoris brings gender equality to French classrooms: Next month, French schoolchildren are going to become much more Knowledgeable about the structure and function of the clitoris, thanks to 3D printing. A full-scale clitoris printed out of polylactic acid
An R&D project initiated by Spain-based specialty acrylic-butadiene-styrene (ABS) producer Elix Polymers aims to develop advanced resin grades specifically for 3D printing using the fused filament fabrication (FFF) process. FFF is more commonly known as fused deposition modelling (FDM). ELIX’s
Covestro announced that it currently is developing a range of filaments, powders and liquid resins for all common 3D printing methods. The company recently opened a new laboratory for 3D printing at its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany. According to Covestro,
Germany’s Wacker Chemie (Munich; www.wacker.com) will showcase an industrial 3D printer for silicones at “K 2016 (www.k-online.com). The trade fair kicks off in Düsseldorf / Germany on 19 October. Wacker said it is the world’s first industrial-scale 3D printer for
FDA publishes Draft Guidance For 3D-Printed Medical Products FDA has issued new draft guidance, “Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices,” to assist medical device designers and manufacturers using additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, in the design, development and manufacture
3D-printed sacrificial tooling, or more specifically 3D-printed molds and mandrels, can enable manufacturers to rapidly and cost-effectively create complex composite parts with geometries that would normally trap the tool. To further improve the process, 3D-technology provider Stratasys (Eden Prairie, MN)
