
Now also in color
Advanced technologies are constantly opening up new possibilities in 3D printing. This applies to the quantities produced, but also to the properties of the products. Five-digit quantities can now be produced economically.

Benjamin Tan is Vice President Ultimaker APAC
3D printer manufacturer Ultimaker has opened new offices in Singapore to meet the growing demand in the APAC region.
Tools and small series in 3D printing
The US EMS company Jabil is pushing ahead with its digital transformation. The company recently started using 3D printing for the manufacture of tools and small series production.
Protolabs now also offers PolyJet and silicone 3D printing. This technology enables the production of prototypes with elastomeric properties and is therefore an ideal addition to the development of 2K injection molded parts.
3D printing materials for use in space

Stratasys and Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies are working with Lockheed Martin Space to design 3D printed objects for NASA's Orion deep space probe.
Congress and exhibition on 3D printing

The Rapid.Tech + FabCon 3.D trade fair and congress event will take place in Erfurt from June 5 to 7. Among other things, a user conference will present new material, product and process solutions as well as an increasingly broad range of applications for additive manufacturing in practice.
Materialise will support industrial companies in Ulsan in introducing additive manufacturing as a complementary manufacturing technology.

Stratasys has introduced a new high-performance PEKK-based thermoplastic called Antero 800NA for its FDM process.

At the Hannover Messe, Stratasys is presenting its FDM and PolyJet technologies together with its German wholesaler Alphacam and its strategic partner Siemens.

Dassault Systèmes appointed a new head for Central Europe on March 30, 2018. As Managing Director EuroCentral, Klaus Löckel will be responsible for the business activities of Dassault Systemes Deutschland GmbH in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the newly opened 3D printing laboratory for metals and structural materials at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst Mach Institute, EMI, researchers have investigated how resource-efficient the manufacturing process is when lightweight components are additively manufactured from aluminum.