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Color ASA Thermoplastics allow you to bypass further painting or finishing steps, saving time and money

Endur Digital Materials are ideal for challenging geometries and repetitive testing – produce durable prototypes with thin walls, living hinges, snap-fits and moving or assembled parts

Stratasys’ tenacious new 3D printing materials allow you to produce more durable prototypes for repetitive testing and tough, color-matched assembly tools as well as end use parts more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional manufacturing technologies.
(…weiter auf blog.stratasys.com)

Anyone who reads or watches the news is becoming increasingly aware that the possibilities with 3D printing are staggering, seemingly infinite. It’s also clear that 3D printing has all but cemented itself in the medical sector these days, allowing medical professionals to use the technology to 3D print models for training, diagnostics, and more, along with manufacturing implants, prosthetics and stents.
(…weiter auf 3dprint.com)

Lately 3D printing and the dental industry go together like peanut butter and jelly—and with strides being made one after another for 3D printing technology and materials in areas like dentures, different orthodontics, surgical procedures, and implants, you can be assured with innovations for the dental field, your dentist will be working to ensure that you can enjoy those peanut butter and jelly crackers, sandwiches, and much more exciting fare for a long time to come—as well as pleasing us all with your dazzling smile.
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Leading market report publisher MartketsandMarkets is reporting that the 3D printing materials sector is going to reach $1.052 billion in global turnover by 2019. The report, which is available for $4,650 as a single user licence and $ 7,150 for a corporate license, splits materials up into categories such as Plastics (photopolymers, ABS, PLA, Nylon and more), Metals (Steel, Silver, Aluminum etc.), Ceramics (Glass, Silica, Quartz and others), as well as other materials such as Wax, Laywood and other compound hybrids, and analyzes the distribution market by global regions and trends.
(…weiter auf 3dprintingindustry.com)

Along with being a sustainable, biocompatible and compostable material, the trait that makes PLA so widely used in 3D printing is its high versatility and that is nothing new. On the downside, PLA is generally brittle and not very impact resistant. Italian filament producer KeyTech has set out to improve PLA, making it comparable to ABS in terms of heat and impact resistance and even superior in terms of flexural strength (as per the data sheet below). To top it all of the new PLA LAYER has been certified for food consumption, the first PLA filament to have done so.
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Material choices continue to expand within the 3D printing space. We now have metal-like filaments, wood-like filaments, filaments with carbon fiber in them, and more. One filament option which is not all that common, due to the difficulty that companies have in manufacturing it, is thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). TPU, however, is really being used more and more by owners of 3D printers due to its flexibility. We’ve seen it used to create a myriad of different 3D printed products which were almost impossible just a couple years ago.
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Ever since he first launched his two 3D printer models, Davide Ardizzola, founder of 3NTR, has focused on the professional applications for his heavy duty systems. The A2 and A4 models are extremely sturdy, enclosed, full metal FFF 3D Printers, based on the over 50 years experience of the mother company Jdeal-Form (which makes components for bras) in polymer use and applications.
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If you were to look at some of the items being fabricated with FFF/FDM 3D printers today, back in 2011 or 2012, you’d be shocked. Not only have these technologies been refined to produce extremely accurate, high quality prints, but the range of materials being offered continues to expand.
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Sculpteo has announced that it has added a seventh class of material type to its offering. Joining the already available thermoplastics, resins, sterling silver, alumide, ceramics and multi-color gypsum powder, the newest material, Brass, is being offered in several different finishes for just about any budget.
(…weiter auf 3dprintingindustry.com)

Material options within the 3D printing space have been expanding quite significantly over the past several months, as companies have begun to realize that the potential that 3D printing provides and the practicality behind the technology is limited by the materials currently available. It’s not so much the print resolution, print speeds, or nozzle diameters which are affecting the growth within the desktop 3D printing space. Instead it is material availability and options that remain the greatest limiting factors.
(…weiter auf 3dprint.com)