Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY (Dec 5, 9:15 a.m. EST) — A new laser-marking process is attempting to do what has been difficult in the past: Use a laser to print in color on a plastic part. Until now, using ...

UMass Lowell's proprietary rubber 3D printing machine is "one of one" in the world, according to Ph.D. candidate Haley Dobbyn ...

The DoD wants to turn battlefield garbage into useful parts for soldiers. Researchers at the Army Research Laboratory have taken recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from bottles and plastics ...

Photocurable 3D printing, widely used for everything from dental treatments to complex prototype manufacturing, is fast and precise but has the limitation of being fragile and easily broken by impact.

Made In Space keeps advancing its vision of off-Earth manufacturing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The commercial 3D printer ...

With a few notable exceptions, the majority of objects removed from a 3D printer bed are fashioned using plastic. But plastic has a nasty habit of ruining our environment at the end of its useful life ...