We’re beginning off with two acquisitions in at present’s 3D Printing Information Briefs, after which on to a brand new Amazon e-commerce retailer for polypropylene filaments. Then we’ll talk about software program, print orientation, and end up with 3D printing for rhinoplasty surgical procedure preparation. Learn on for the small print!

Titomic Acquires Chilly Spray Firm Dycomet

Dycomet’s excessive strain chilly spray

Australia-based Titomic (ASX: TTT) introduced that it has acquired Dutch firm Dycomet Europe B.V., a European chief in chilly spray know-how. Dycomet gives low, medium, and excessive strain chilly spray options to varied industries, together with automotive and aviation, which is able to give native functionality and assist to Titomic’s European prospects. In keeping with a press launch, the acquisition shall be “instantly income accretive for Titomic” with a powerful pipeline of European buyer orders, giving it a base in Europe, which, paired with its Australian headquarters and Titomic USA, will present the corporate with glorious international entry. Klaas Rozema, Dycomet’s Founder and CEO, will now function Normal Supervisor of Titomic Europe.

“The acquisition of Dycomet is a big step in Titomic’s strategic pathway to being a world firm. We’re excited to welcome Dycomet onboard and look ahead to working with Klaas and his crew on the various thrilling alternatives that this acquisition presents,” stated Herbert Koeck, Titomic’s CEO. “Whereas Titomic focuses on high-pressure purposes, Dycomet providers the soft-end low and medium-pressure market. With our complementary equipment and product portfolio, the mixed experience now obtainable to the Firm will additional speed up the Firm’s development into new markets and supply present prospects with a broader product providing.”

TriMech Acquires InterPRO Additive Manufacturing Group

Talking of acquisitions, TriMech, which supplies CAD and engineering software program, additive and subtractive manufacturing options, and related coaching, consulting, and staffing to producers and engineers in North America, is increasing its superior manufacturing and speedy prototyping providing with the acquisition of InterPRO Additive Manufacturing Group. InterPRO has one in every of North America’s largest deployments of the brand new Stratasys Origin P3 system, and in addition gives in-house applied sciences together with urethane and silicone casting and Multi Jet Fusion, FDM, and large-format SLA printing. With this acquisition, TriMech will add over 70 3D printers to its present vary of 40+ 3D printers at its manufacturing and prototyping amenities in Ontario and Connecticut. Dan Straka, President of InterPRO, will grow to be TriMech’s Normal Supervisor of Superior Manufacturing, and InterPRO will stay in its Connecticut facility underneath the identify TriMech Superior Manufacturing.

“The tempo of change in additive manufacturing continues to speed up. Advances in plastic and steel printing, pace and workflow, and higher-volume manufacturing are altering buyer necessities and expectations,” stated Marcel Matte, President and CEO of TriMech. “This acquisition brings collectively extra specialists and a broader know-how providing so we might be the very best accomplice to producers of all sizes.”

Braskem, Xenon arc Launch Amazon Retailer for PP Filaments

Transferring on to supplies, Braskem, which is the biggest producer of polyolefins within the Americas, partnered with Xenon arc to launch its first consumer-facing retailer on Amazon to be able to make polypropylene AM filaments extra accessible to shoppers. Xenon arc is contributing data-driven advertising and marketing and gross sales platform applied sciences to assist Braskem higher attain its small- to mid-sized purchasers, and the e-commerce market options Braskem’s PP 3D printing filaments in each 1.75 mm and a pair of.85 mm diameters, which can be utilized for designing spare components, speedy prototyping, and customized product design, amongst different purposes, because of the fabric’s impression energy, sturdiness, and chemical resistance. The Amazon retailer may also promote Braskem’s award-winning carbon fiber bolstered PP filament.

“We’re repeatedly searching for new methods to make our supplies extra accessible to shoppers and small enterprise purchasers,” stated Jason Vagnozzi, Braskem Industrial Director of Additive Manufacturing. “By means of our partnership with Xenon arc, now we have constructed a brand new e-commerce channel that overcomes among the provide chain complexities that bigger commodity producers face when attempting to immediately attain shoppers. Amazon will permit us to raised serve smaller makerspaces, hobbyists, and academic establishments that might profit from our polypropylene improvements.”

Hexagon Provides Additive Construct Preparation to ESPRIT CAM Software program

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division just lately added additive construct preparation to its ESPRIT CAM software program, which is able to present digital instruments to organize parts for powder mattress fusion (PBF) 3D printing to be able to streamline hybrid manufacturing workflows and scale up AM manufacturing volumes.  In keeping with AMPOWER’s Additive Manufacturing Report, PBF represents 86% of the world’s machine set up base for additive manufacturing, and with this addition, Hexagon’s ESPRIT CAM software program now consists of its patented Half-to-Construct workflow for each the printing and ending operations for PBF, together with construct preparation steps and programming instruments for post-processing—providing this devoted performance in a single piece of software program that makes use of a parametric data-based workflow. Clients can higher optimize their AM half designs by utilizing ESPRIT Additive PBF together with different Hexagon merchandise, like Simufact Additive and MSC Apex Generative Design.

“Combining construct preparation within the CAM atmosphere is step one on the journey to true computer-aided manufacturing utilizing additive strategies, enabling greater ranges of automation and productiveness. Our objective is to make the programmer’s life simpler, thereby making the store ground extra productive and future-ready to use the very best obtainable equipment and processes to the half in hand,” defined Clement Girard, Product Supervisor for Additive Manufacturing and Synthetic Intelligence at Hexagon.

Thermwood Provides Third Print Orientation to LSAM Techniques

In 2020, Thermwood Corp. launched the Vertical Layer Print (VLP) possibility to its LSAM (Massive Scale Additive Manufacturing) techniques, which might print vertical layers; it already provided HLP, or Horizontal Layer Printing. Now the corporate has added a third print orientation with its new Angle Layer Printing (ALP) possibility, which might print at a forty five° angle. As a result of every of those orientations has its personal benefits, providing all three on the identical system, with the whole LSAM print head, makes it a particularly versatile resolution.

At the moment working LSAM machines already characteristic the VLP functionality, however for brand spanking new techniques, this has been changed with a VLP/ALP possibility. If a buyer bought a machine with out VLP, this new VLP/ALP possibility might be simply added to a lot of the machines already working, and supposedly it’s a cheap repair as properly. LSAM techniques, that are stated to be probably the most widely-used large-scale composite thermoplastic 3D printing techniques at present in industrial manufacturing, can be found in a wide range of configurations, together with full print and trim and print solely, in sizes from 5 x 10 toes all the way in which to fifteen x 60 toes.

Utilizing 3D Printed Fashions for Rhinoplasty Surgical procedure Preparation

Segmentation part, the multiplanar reconstructions on the axial (A), coronal (B) and sagittal planes (C), in pink the masks imported post-segmentation from MRI. (D), the 3D fashions of the bone tissue in white, the cartilage constructions in crimson (from MRI/CT co-registration), and the comfortable tissues of the nasal pyramid in pink (in transparency).

Lastly, researchers in Italy printed a analysis paper on their use of CT scans, MRI knowledge, and 3D printing to create pre-surgical fashions forward of rhinoplasty surgical procedure, and different surgical reconstruction of cartilaginous constructions, which might be fairly difficult. The objective was to give you an imaging technique to merge the CT and MRI knowledge to be able to 3D print a mannequin that’s, because the researchers wrote, “true to the affected person’s anatomy.” Ten sufferers who have been candidates for rhinoplasty had CT scans and MRI for characterization of their nasal constructions for this research; the bone and comfortable tissue segmentations happened within the CT, and the MRI captured the cartilage segmentations.

“Subsequently, a 3D mannequin was produced in supplies and colours reproducing the density of the three principal constructions (bone, comfortable tissue, and cartilage), helpful for pre-surgical analysis,” the researchers wrote. “This research has highlighted that the optimization of a CT and MR devoted protocol has allowed to scale back the CT radiation dose as much as 60% in comparison with customary acquisitions with the identical machine, and MR acquisition time of about 20%. Affected person-tailored 3D fashions and pre-surgical planning have decreased the imply operative time by 20 minutes.”