Additive Insight

On the latest Additive Insight, the TCT editorial team sum up a week in Frankfurt with a special roundtable recorded live at Formnext 2022. 

The team discuss launches from HP, SLM Solutions, Carbon alongside partnership announcements from Materialise, Oqton and more.

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On the latest Additive Insight Innovators on Innovators podcast, Met-L-Flo President and AMUG Past President Carl Dekker sits down with William Dallas Martin, a Technician at Toyota Motor North America's TILT Lab.

Throughout the episode, they discuss the use of 3D printing inside that Toyota makerspace facility, the application opportunities for additive manufacturing inside automotive, and how education remains an obstacle for further adoption of the technology.

In our latest Executive Interview, we speak to the newly appointed President of Healthcare at Formlabs Guillaume Bailliard.

Bailliard has been working in the healthcare sector for 25 years, and on the Additive Insight podcast, he shared his thoughts on the opportunities for 3D printing in the medical space, as well as what he will bring to his role at Formlabs.

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On this episode of the TCT Additive Insight podcast, Evolve Additive CEO Joe Allison is joined by Buildparts founder Mike Littrell for the latest instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series.

Throughout the conversation, Joe and Mike share how they built their service bureau businesses, assess the accuracy of market value estimates in AM, and give details about the respective STEP and WAV processes at Evolve and Paxis.

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On this week's episode of Additive Insight, the editorial team discuss the biggest additive manufacturing and 3D printing news stories from the last month.

The top story focuses on Nikon's numerous investments in metal AM, starting with the biggest, a voluntary public takeover of SLM Solutions in a 622 million Euro deal at the start of September, quickly followed by investments in Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies and Optisys, Inc. TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies also discuss the development of SLM Solutions extended version of its 12-laser NXG XII 600 system in in partnership with Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

The team also discuss the launch of UltiMaker as the MakerBot/Ultimaker merger, announced back in May, officially closes, and the launch of Mantle's new metal 3D printing system designed specifically for tool making applications.

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On this week's episode of Additive Insight, we bring you a panel session recorded live at this year's TCT 3Sixty on the future of sustainability in additive manufacturing. 

Hoda Amel, Technology Manager, Additive Manufacturing at the the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) leads a panel of experts including Stephen Fitzpatrick, Machining and Additive Manufacturing Team Lead at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), Gerret Lukas, Director Projects at Aachen Centre for Additive Manufacturing (ACAM), and Phil Reeves, Managing Director at Reeves Insight and Director at 4D Biomaterials, to explore where 3D printing provides opportunities for greener manufacturing, how the technology itself needs to become more sustainable, creating greener business models, and much more.

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TCT's Senior Content Producer Sam Davies joins Head of Content Laura Griffiths on a call from Chicago to discuss the biggest additive manufacturing launches from the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2022.

HP and Nexa3D were the headline stories from the week as both launched long-anticipated production focused 3D printing technologies at the mammoth manufacturing event. HP's Metal Jet S100 Solution aims to scale metal additive manufacturing to mass production, while Nexa3D is rounding out its portfolio with the commercial availability of QLS 820, am ultrafast polymer laser sintering platform geared towards high throughput.

The team also discuss acquisition news from Nikon, conversations with Conflux and Carbon, and launches from Mantle and Desktop Metal.

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Melanie Lang founded FormAlloy in 2016, alongside CTO Jeff Riemann, after first becoming interested in 3D printing as a hobbyist.

The co-founders first met as interns at Boeing, and reconnected years later when they spotted an opportunity for DED technology in industries such as aerospace.

Lang herself started out as an aerospace engineer, landing a role at Lockheed Martin after her stint at Boeing, where she was involved in such things as algorithm development for air defence systems. While at Lockheed, she also took part in a three-year leadership programme, which resulted in a master’s degree, and set her on a path that would eventually see her start up her own company.

Throughout the episode, we discuss the product portfolio of that company, how FormAlloy commenced work with the likes of NASA, and what the key opportunities are for DED technology in aerospace and beyond.

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On the latest Additive Insight podcast episode, we sit down with Scott Van Vliet, the SVP of Additive & Software Engineering at Relativity Space, to discuss the space company's use of 3D printing technology. 

Van Vliet joined Relativity at the start of 2022, having previously held roles at Mattel, Microsoft and Amazon. Through these roles, he had exposure to both 3D printing and software engineering, and when the opportunity at Relativity presented itself, he found it too hard to turn down. 

In Relativity, he is working for a company that has lofty ambitions to additively manufacture the majority of its Terran launch vehicles and facilitate space exploration on such planets as Mars. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding in its Series D and Series E rounds alone, and recently announced its partnership with Impulse Space to launch its Mars Cruise Vehicle and Mars Lander into trans-Mars injection orbit. 

During this episode, we discuss all that, as well as the considerations Relativity makes when deploying 3D printing, what's involved in the rest of its manufacturing workflow, and what is motivating the company to harness AM technology in its bid to enable space exploration. 

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For this week's episode of Additive Insight, the TCT editorial team is back with another Editorial Roundtable, covering the biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news stories from the last month.

Editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies discuss yet another major AM acquisition as Stratasys announces plans to acquire Covestro, two more major manufacturers joining the Biden administration's AM Forward initiative, Divergent Technologies 3D printing the subframe for Aston Martin's latest concept vehicle, and Montana becoming the first US state to give broad regulatory approval for 3D printing in construction.

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