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Industry
Scan, Redesign, Print, Certify: Plane Support Wins CASA Approval for 3D Printed Bell 214B Cabin Ducting
After almost two years of work with type certificate holder McDermott Aviation, Plane Support has CASA approval to additively manufacture cabin air-conditioning ducting for the firefighting Bell 214B, using a scan, reverse-engineer and redesign workflow built around a Markforged FX10.
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Materials
San Diego County Sues Polymaker, Arguing Marketing Turns PLA Filament Into a 'Firearm Precursor Part'
San Diego County has sued Polymaker under California's Unfair Competition Law. The complaint does not argue that PLA is illegal. It argues that gun-rights branding, a firearm-focused creator and affiliate links made the filament a regulated 'firearm precursor part'.
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Materials
Glasgow and Sydney Teams Make 3D-Printed Lattices That Show Where They Are Cracking
Researchers in the UK and Australia printed carbon-nanotube-loaded DLP lattices and used electrical impedance tomography, a medical imaging method, to map damage inside them as they were pulled apart, locating cracks to about one unit cell.
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Materials
xPEI: Reactive Polyetherimide Aims to Bring Ultem-Class Amorphous Parts to SLS and FDM
BlueSky Polymers, Insight Polymers and EOS subsidiary ALM say their reactive xPEI flows easily during printing and is then thermally cured to raise its glass transition, which could finally make polyetherimide work in laser sintering. Pilot customers are being sought now.
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Materials
Apiar Carbon01 OG: A British 3D-Printed Watch With a CF-PEEK Case Over Titanium
London watchmaker Apiar's fifth 3D-printed watch puts a carbon-fiber PEEK outer case over a printed Grade 23 titanium core. Apiar calls it the first commercial watch made with composite-based additive manufacturing. It starts at $1,818.
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Business
Makelab Moves Into Brooklyn's MADE: Bush Terminal to Chase Tier-One Industrial Clients
A 53-foot truck from a tier-one auto supplier made the case: New York print studio Makelab has taken a 3,840 sq ft space at Brooklyn's MADE: Bush Terminal because its old site's limited access could not handle the industrial clients it now wants.
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Printers
Scrap Labs Pitches a Desktop Metal Printer Built From FDM-Printed Parts
Boulder startup Scrap Labs is building the Scrap 1, a desktop laser powder bed fusion printer made mostly from FDM-printed parts, with a June 2027 production target. Its homepage lists $9,600 Founder kits, while 3Dnatives reports $14,200 for a DIY kit and $17,990 assembled.
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Guides
AM Europe Maps Research Capabilities Across 83 Organizations in 18 Countries and Finds the Bottleneck Is Production
AM Europe's new map of 83 research organisations in 18 countries shows plenty of lab activity in metals, repair and testing, but small firms still struggle to find facilities, compare services, pay for qualification and reuse test data.
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Printers
ELEGOO Takes an Emoji-Themed Centauri Carbon 2 to New York Comic Con and Teases a New Resin Printer
At New York Comic Con, ELEGOO is showing an emoji-themed Centauri Carbon 2 Combo and a first look at two unnamed machines, a new resin printer and a "secret product in a new category." Neither comes with specs or a price yet.
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Industry
PharmaTher Plans Up to 50 CraftMake Pharmaceutical 3D Printer Placements Across North America
PharmaTher aims to place up to 50 CraftMake pharmaceutical 3D printers in North American pharmacies and a GMP manufacturer within 12 months, starting with PD Labs, while renaming its platform M3DICINES and targeting a 2028 rare pediatric NDA.
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Materials
Students' 3D-Printed PETG Jet Is Gunning for the RC Speed Record
The Mach Initiative's KingChaser, a 9 kg jet built mostly from PETG with a PPS-CF engine bay and a 300 N turbine, is aiming at the 465 mph RC jet record. Annealed PET-CF warped on the way there, and the jet has not flown yet.
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Guides
Printing Silicone Inside Hair Gel: A Bricked Prusa Becomes an Embedded-Printing Rig
A dead Prusa i3, the open-source Allstruder syringe extruder and a Duet 3 board add up to a hobby-bench embedded printer: cream cheese tested the mechanics, epoxy failed in hair gel, and Sylgard 184 silicone finally printed.
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