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- 200 3D Printed Houses to Be Built by Hyundai Subsidiary and Alquist 3D
- 3DPOD Episode 103: Dental 3D Printing with Ankush Venkatesh, Glidewell Intrapreneur
- 3D Printed Patient-Specific Cancer Treatment Bolus Added to 3D Systems Portfolio
- Morf3D Becomes Certified by Nadcap in AM Processes
- 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 1st, 2022
| 200 3D Printed Houses to Be Built by Hyundai Subsidiary and Alquist 3D Posted: 02 May 2022 06:30 AM PDT Alquist 3D is a Virginia-based additive construction (AC) company, specializing in printing affordable, cement-based residential homes. Earlier this year, we covered a story about Alquist printing the first owner-occupied residential home in Virginia — also one of the first such homes in the entire world. As much of a milestone for the AC sector as that was, Alquist has quickly followed up on that project by embarking on something much bigger: what the company is calling 'Project Virginia' — "the world largest 3D-construction project". Alquist will print 200 homes around southwestern Virginia over the next four to five years, starting with two homes in the town of Pulaski, in the state's New River Valley area. A recent Axios article mentioned the New River Valley as one of many new tech hubs that have emerged since the pandemic, while Pulaski specifically has recently gained more than 3,000 manufacturing jobs. As such, the location made a perfect place for Alquist to debut Project Virginia, which the company did on April 29 at a press conference near one of the build sites. Alquist held the press conference along with Black Buffalo, the manufacturer of the NEXCON printer, which will be the system used for Project Virginia. It's notable that Alquist used a COBOD BOD2 on the first couple of projects in Virginia, and has now switched to Black Buffalo for this much larger project. Black Buffalo previously made news for uprooting local residents and indirectly causing the layoffs of an unknown amount of workers in Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania, when the company started work on its new factory on 106 acres of land it purchased in the area. A subsidiary of South Korea-based Hyundai, the world's third-largest car manufacturer, Black Buffalo announced its strategic partnership with Alquist 3D in November, 2021.
Alquist has plans to print homes in several additional states around the U.S., so the strategic partnership, as this project in just one state already shows, will be a solid way for Black Buffalo to get a foothold in the emerging AC sector. It will be interesting to see if COBOD, probably the biggest competition in the sector, also develops a partnership primarily with one construction firm. The alternative would be that a number of smaller 3D construction businesses emerge, specific to local markets in the areas where PERI Group plans on selling COBOD printers. Whatever turns out to be the case, it seems like real competition is slowly starting to arise in the AC industry.
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| 3DPOD Episode 103: Dental 3D Printing with Ankush Venkatesh, Glidewell Intrapreneur Posted: 02 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Ankush Venkatesh passionately tells us about Glidewell Dental‘s holistic and very vertically integrated adoption of 3D printing. The firm has had to make its own software, deploys over 400 3D printers. and is looking to make its own post-processing solutions, as well. As a large dental lab, the company also uses machine learning to automatically propose 3D printing design files in its operations. What follows is a great look into how a firm can gain a true advantage through creating and deploying technology wisely. The post 3DPOD Episode 103: Dental 3D Printing with Ankush Venkatesh, Glidewell Intrapreneur appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. |
| 3D Printed Patient-Specific Cancer Treatment Bolus Added to 3D Systems Portfolio Posted: 02 May 2022 05:30 AM PDT As part of their treatment regime, about 50% of cancer patients will undergo radiotherapy, which kills the cancer cells using a focused beam outside of the body or placing radioactive materials near the cancer cells inside the body. A flexible device called a bolus that conforms to the person’s skin is often used to help properly target the radiation. Unfortunately, off-the-shelf versions that don’t properly fit can leave gaps between the patient’s body and the device, which means inadequate dosing, and potentially exposing parts of the body that don’t have cancerous cells to radiation. That’s why 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) has announced its VSP Bolus solution with FDA 510(k) clearance for patient-specific radiotherapy treatment.
 Radiotherapy targeting, which a 3D printed bolus can help improve. 3D Systems has long worked to deliver personalized healthcare solutions, and has fabricated over two million implants and instruments for more than 100 FDA-cleared and CE-marked medical devices from its FDA-registered facilities in Belgium and Colorado. Over the last ten years, the company has worked with many surgeons to plan over 140,000 patient-specific cases, many of which were helped by its Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP). The solution combines surgical simulation, medical imaging, and 3D printing, and the end result is a digital plan that’s put into action in the OR through guides, templates, models, and other devices, now including boluses. The new VSP Bolus marks the company’s entrance into the radiation oncology market, and 3D Systems claims it’s the only solution on the market offering a full design and production service based on a patient-specific treatment plan. Because of this, the company says that radiotherapy providers don’t need special design software, which allows them to focus more on the care and treatment of the patient. This goes hand in hand with the goal of 3D Systems’ 3D printed, biocompatible VSP Bolus solution—improve the patient experience by optimizing radiotherapy targeting.  3D Systems' VSP Bolus solution delivers high-quality, patient-specific devices that contour to the patient's anatomy, enabling more efficacious treatment and a more comfortable experience. The high-quality 3D printed boluses that 3D Systems will now offer in its VSP portfolio are said to reduce air gaps, which can improve both patient comfort and therapy modulation. Using a patient’s imaging data, along with input from a radiotherapy professional, the company can design and print boluses for a variety of anatomies, and with specific material thicknesses to help optimize the targeting. This has an added bonus of taking something off the radiotherapy professional’s plate, since they won’t need to design and create the bolus themselves. After the bolus is designed for a patient, 3D Systems engineers use the company’s 3D printing solutions to fabricate the device from a soft material that contours well to the patient’s anatomy. (Source/Images: 3D Systems) The post 3D Printed Patient-Specific Cancer Treatment Bolus Added to 3D Systems Portfolio appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. |
| Morf3D Becomes Certified by Nadcap in AM Processes Posted: 02 May 2022 05:00 AM PDT Nikon subsidiary Morf3D joins the growing list of companies to receive the highly coveted Nadcap (formerly known as the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) certification for additive manufacturing (AM). The aerospace metal 3D printing firm has been ramping up AM in aerospace since 2013, but earning this new accreditation is required for any company hoping to work with the biggest players in the global aerospace industry. Originally launched in 1990, Nadcap was created to avoid the costly and time-consuming need for individual assessments, which resulted in the same inspections being performed twice. Since then, this industry-managed program administered by the Performance Review Institute (PRI) has been devoted to improving the overall quality of a company’s manufacturing processes. Using a standardized approach, technical experts from prime contractors, suppliers, and government representatives work together to establish the necessary approval requirements. Developing a Nadcap accreditation checklist for AM technologies in the aerospace industry has been a major step forward in the last few years. Nadcap has classified AM as a "special process," meaning that so much more goes into building a part than just what is going on inside the chamber and intends to validate process controls, including maintenance, calibrations, machine qualification, and inspection addition, by. In addition, by standardizing materials and methods, they are helping the 3D printing industry increase adoption of the technology for producing functional parts in end-use applications.
 Morf3D CEO Ivan J. Madera. Image courtesy of Morf3D.As part of the Nadcap accreditation, the company also announced it now holds supplier voting members’ rights on the Nadcap task group and is the leader of the Additive Manufacturing Sub Team, which allows it to provide valuable input and contribute to the development of the program alongside the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Prime members. Morf3D is not the only business awarded Nadcap certification for additive manufacturing. In 2017 premier provider of highly-engineered, mission-critical components, LAI International, became the first-ever Nadcap certified additive manufacturer globally. The Scottsdale, Arizona firm has grown its aerospace applications using 3D printing for years. It has acquired many AM technologies for its shop floor, including directed-energy deposition (DED), electron beam melting (EBM), and laser powder bed fusion machines. Yet, the Nadcap accreditation brought the firm full circle, helping it stand out above all those others that are not accredited. Following LAI International's footsteps, other companies also began the auditing process to get their respective Nadcap AM accreditations. Among them are Sintavia, BEAMIT, Burloak Technologies, Material Solutions, GF Additive (also known as the GF AMotion Center), Element Materials Technology, and Isostatic. Accredited in 2020, Sintavia, a specialist in metal 3D printing technology, said at the time it was the only company with Nadcap approvals for laser additive manufacturing, electron beam melting, and in-house heat treatment. Similarly, Siemens business Material Solutions was the first UK 3D printing company to get the Nadcap accreditation. While metal AM service provider BEAMIT has been successfully audited by Nadcap PRI Task Group and gained a merit mention on welding and AM, taking the company straight into its first accreditation among top class organizations in the world.  Morf3D facilities. Image courtesy of Morf3D.Like its predecessors with Nadcap AM certification, Morf3D will now gain even more international recognition within the aerospace industry. The aerospace metal 3D printing firm recently launched new headquarters in Long Beach, California. The new 90,000 square foot space called Applied Digital Manufacturing Center (ADMC) will house 150 multi-discipline engineers, research staff, and technical teams. The ADMC will also serve as a solid industrial base that ensures the continuity of Morf3D's highest quality products and enhances the company's technology edge, which enriches Morf3D's partners and customer applications worldwide. Through these partnerships, Morf3D will support new developments and innovations to accelerate customer adoption and the overall industrialization of digital manufacturing. Moreover, the new Nadcap certification addition ensures quality for its customers, which will now be among Nadcap prime contractors, including big names like Aerojet Rocketdyne, Airbus, Boeing, BAE Systems, General Electric, and Rolls Royce. The post Morf3D Becomes Certified by Nadcap in AM Processes appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. |
| 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 1st, 2022 Posted: 01 May 2022 05:30 AM PDT We’ve got another busy week of webinars and events ahead! 3D Systems has multiple offerings, while Stratasys continues its Experience Tour, Formlabs hosts The Digital Factory in Boston, and Nexa3D and Henkel will discuss enterprise partnerships. Other topics include sustainable solutions, metal 3D printing for production parts, thermal management, and more. Read on for the details! The Experience Stratasys Tour Continues
First up, Stratasys continues its Experience Tour this week in California, taking the Mobile Showroom to Hawthorne. On Monday, May 2nd, Purple Platypus will be hosting at SpaceX, which should be really interesting. Then, GoEngineer will host at the Common Space Brewery on Wednesday, May 4th.
You can register for the Stratasys Experience Tour here. Stay tuned for more dates and locations in the future! Offshore Technology Conference 2022
In its first offering of the week, 3D Systems will be attending the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas from May 2-5. This is the premier event for advancing scientific and technical knowledge in the competitive offshore energy sector. In addition to technical presentations, awards programs, keynote speakers, and networking opportunities, there will be more than 700 in-person exhibitors at OTC 2022, including 3D Systems at booth #1274. Company representatives will be there to discuss the latest AM application advancements for the energy sector.
You can register for OTC 2022 here and schedule a meeting with 3D Systems here. MedtecLIVE 2022
3D Systems will also be attending the MedtecLIVE International Exhibition and Congress in Stuttgart, Germany this week. The event, held from May 3-5, welcomes product developers and purchasers from distributors and OEMs to meet the leading suppliers of medical technology in Europe. The focus will be on the supply chain for producing medical technology, devices, and solutions. 3D Systems and Kumovis will share booth #10-151, and exhibit the Figure 4 Standalone system, the R1 FLM 3D printer, and 3D printed medical instruments and implants.
You can get your ticket to MedtecLIVE 2022 here and schedule a meeting with 3D Systems here. Control Show in Stuttgart
From May 3-6, Control Show—the international trade fair for quality assurance—will be held at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre. Manufacturers, exhibitors, and suppliers of measuring, vision, and sensor technology and QA equipment will be at the technical event, which will include an Innovations Marketplace and a total of six exhibition halls, along with accompanying events held by renowned research facilities of the Fraunhofer Institute, a major event partner. Volume Graphics, which provides software for analyzing and visualizing industrial CT data, will be exhibiting at the Control Show in Hall 5, Booth 5201. Version 2022.1 of its VGSTUDIO MAX software includes many new capabilities, including adaptive measurement templates that follow the shape of deformed, distorted parts.
You can purchase tickets for the Control Show here. Formlabs Holding Digital Factory Conference
Starting at 9 am EST on May 3rd, Formlabs will hold its fourth Digital Factory Conference at the Cruiseport Boston, with a virtual attendance option as well. The focus will be on emerging digital systems and technologies that are needed to create a more resilient workforce and supply chain, and how to increase accessibility to strategies that were successful during the pandemic. A prestigious lineup of speakers will present at the technical conference, including Carl Bass, the former CEO of Autodesk; Jane Arnold, VP of Advanced Manufacturing Technology at Stanley Black & Decker; Formlabs CEO Max Lobovsky; Senior Editor of Forbes Amy Feldman; Professor John Hart, MIT; and more.
You can register for the Digital Factory Conference here. AM Coalition on Sustainable AM Solutions
In its latest live Zoom forum this Tuesday, May 3rd, at 2 pm EST, the Additive Manufacturing Coalition will discuss “Additive Manufacturing: Creating Sustainable Solutions.” Panelists will be Tim Bell, Additive Manufacturing Business Manager at Siemens Digital Industries USA; Rosa Coblens, Vice President Sustainability, Public Relations Israel & Global Internal Communications for Stratasys; and Mary Cronin, Vice President of Government Affairs, 6K Additive.
You can RSVP for the forum here. Aerospace and Defense Supplier Summit
America Makes is holding the first annual Aerospace and Defense Supplier Summit, sponsored by NCDMM and hosted by the Innovation Network for Manufacturers, which is powered by UTEP-Aerospace Center, UTEP-W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, the El Paso Chamber, the City of El Paso, and NCDMM. From 8 am-6 pm EST on May 4th, manufacturers and industry and agency partners will tour the facilities of UTEP-Aerospace Center and UTEP-W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation to learn about talent development resources and technology innovation. At the same time on the 5th, manufacturers will get to connect with aerospace and defense industry and agency partners in one-on-one matchmaking sessions.
You can register for the free summit here. Metal 3D Printing Live with Cimquest
After completing its four-part webinar series on the World of Metal 3D Printing, Cimquest held the first of two live events at its New Jersey headquarters to finish the series. This Wednesday, May 4th, the company will hold its second live in-person event, “Acceleration of Metal 3D Printing with ABCorp and Cimquest,” at ABCorp in Boston. ABCorp has come a long from being the secure printers for the First Bank of the United States, and now designs, manufactures, and personalizes credit carts, and 3D prints detailed parts and prototypes. The Desktop Metal Shop System, HP 5210, and Xact Metal XM200C will be on display at this free event, and four 1.5-hour time slots will be available, starting at 9 am and ending at 3 pm EST, with a maximum of eight people per session.
You can register for the event here. GE Aviation 3D Printing Metal Production Parts
At 10 am EST on the 4th, GE Additive is holding a webinar called “Beyond the Fuel Nozzle: How GE Aviation is Using Metal Additive for Production Parts.” GE Aviation speakers Benito Trevino, General Manager for the Additive Integrated Product Team, and Chris Philp, Additive Technology Center Site Leader, will discuss how GE Aviation’s early experiences 3D printing a production part have evolved into 3D printing industrial-scale parts for multiple engines. Additionally, attendees will hear how enhancements to GE Additive’s M2 Series 5 system have made it ideal for fabricating aerospace production parts.
You can register for the webinar here. Nexa3D & Henkel Discuss Enterprise Partnerships
At 11 am EST on Wednesday the 4th, Nexa3D‘s latest 3D Printing Leadership Forum will focus on how “Enterprise Partnerships Need Both Technical and Value Alignment to Move AM Forward.” Nexa3D’s Sarah Goehrke, Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Ecosystems, will be joined by Cindy Deekitwong, Head of Customer Experience & Market Intelligence for Henkel Adhesive Technologies, for a live conversation on how the value alignment of companies underpins a technical-driven enterprise partnership. They will examine the qualities and technological compatibility that make the relationship between their two companies so strong.
3D Systems Holding Open Houses with CAD BLU
Continuing with its busy week of events, both virtual and in-person, 3D Systems is holding a pair of Additive Manufacturing Open Houses with CAD BLU at the CraftHaus Brewery in Las Vegas from 4-7 pm EST on May 4th. One is focusing on the newest materials for dental applications, including the company’s new CrownTec composite resin for permanent crowns, inlays, onlays, verneers and denture teeth. The other one will feature discussions about the current state of the industry and where it’s going, complete with additive solutions for the tooling, aerospace, and automotive sectors. Attendees will have the chance to meet with 3D printing experts in a casual setting and ask questions while enjoying food and beverages.
You can RSVP for the dental open house here and the state of the AM industry one here. 3D Systems on 3D Printing Tissues & Organs
For its final webinar this week, Allevi by 3D Systems continues its Meet the Innovators: Conversations in Advanced Bioprinting series with a presentation and interview focused on “3D Printing Tissues and Organs.” During the May 4th webinar, which starts at 4:15 pm EST, the company’s Vice President and General Manager of Bioprinting, Taci Pereira, will facilitate a Q&A session with Dr. Anthony Atala, the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
You can register for the webinar here. 3D Bioprinting Cancer with 3DHEALS
Moving on to Thursday, May 5th, 3DHEALS is hosting a panel on “3D Bioprinting Cancer” at 11 am EST. Dr. Jenny Chen, the Founder/CEO of 3DHEALS, is moderating the webinar, and the speakers will be Dr. Antti Arjonen, Chief Scientific Officer at Brinter; Dr. Karolina Valente, CEO & CSO of VoxCell BioInnovation and an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria; and Raphael Lichtnecker, Business Development Manager at ViscoTec.
You can register for the webinar here. Ceramics Expo Webinar on Thermal Management
As 12 pm EST on the 5th, the Ceramics Expo—coming to Cleveland, Ohio in August—is holding a free webinar on “Selecting the Optimal Thermal Resistance Solution to Meet Your Application Requirements” for materials. Brandon Brown, Vice President Of Engineering, C-Therm Technologies Ltd., will moderate a panel consisting of Steve Chernack, Global Technical Manager, Thermal Ceramics; Shahab Zekriardehani, PhD, Technology Manager, Polymers & Nanocomposites, Eaton; and Will Goertzen, PhD, Center Engineering Manager, Schlumberger. These expert panelists will share their insight into how advanced materials can help with thermal resistance challenges and improve the overall performance of your component.
You can register for the webinar here. ASME: Desktop 3D Printing
Also on the 5th, at 2 pm EST, ASME is holding a Mechanical Engineering webinar called “Honey, I Shrunk the Industrial 3D Printer.” It can be tricky to bring new products to market, what with design and redesign, prototyping, finalizing, and scaling up to mass production, but 3D printing can be an effective tool for the task in terms of reducing the process. Michael Currie, General Manager of the Desktop Business Unit at Nexa3D, will discuss how product designers can speed up design cycles, ensure precision and accuracy with multiple applications, scale to low-volume production, and more by using the same AM technology at the desktop as on the production floor.
You can register for the webinar here. IAM3DHUB’s Healthcare & Medical Open House
Finally, on Friday, May 6th, IAM3DHUB in Barcelona is holding an OpenHouse x Healthcare & Medical. More than 50 participants from various companies, hospitals, and entities in the medical and healthcare sector participated in a meeting in the new DFactory 4.0 to set the foundation for the AM3DP Medical Platform, under the umbrella of the IAM3DHUB. This platform will work to speed adoption of AM to help develop personalized medicine. After the event kick-off for the AM3DP Medical Platform, there will be presentations of successful use cases and applications of 3D printing in the medical sector by a Materialise Medical representative and a colleague from the IAM3DHUB technical team. Then, attendees will visit the IAM3DHUB laboratories, and finally enjoy lunch and networking.
You can register for the open house here. Do you have news to share about any future webinars or virtual and live events? Please let us know! The post 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 1st, 2022 appeared first on 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. |
Finally, the scope of the project illustrates why it's somewhat silly to keep billing things as "world's largest 3D printing construction" projects, if only because that can mean so many things. Is 200 3D-printed houses in various areas over the course of five years by definition a larger project than the 
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