Articles Tagged with ''additive manufacturing''

WASHINGTON—The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded two grants totaling $7.4 million to fund research projects aimed at improving the rapidly developing field of additive manufacturing.

In business since 1969, C&A Tool Engineering Inc. is a contract manufacturer of engineered components. The company makes implants, instrumentation and tools for the medical, aeronautical, defense, transportation and other industries at its 700,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Churubusco, IN.

Despite all the recent hype and hoopla, does 3D printing have a future in mainstream manufacturing?

EAST HARTFORD, CT—Pratt & Whitney has flight-tested jet engine components made from metal additive manufacturing processes.

STORRS, CT—The University of Connecticut and Pratt & Whitney, have opened of a new additive manufacturing research laboratory here.

MELBOURNE, Australia—Once considered science fiction, the ability to do 3D printing has become a reality. The trend is expected to pick up steam in 2013.

Additive manufacturing is one of the hottest technologies to come along in the last 50 years.

NEW YORK—Shapeways has building a new 3D printing facility in Long Island City. The facility will employ some 50 people and have the capacity to print 3 million to five million unique products annually.

YOUNGSTOWN, OH—The National Additive Manufacturing Institute will be housed in a 12,000-square-foot building here.