by David | Mar 22, 2020 | Bioprinting, Companies, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Materials
Additive manufacturing has gained immense popularity over the last few years as it helps in producing complex engineering structures in the healthcare industry. Biocompatible 3D materials enable excellent flexibility and low production costs to produce parts of...
by David | Mar 22, 2020 | Food
Chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has set up a dedicated 3D-printing studio for desserts, providing chefs with an opportunity to create bespoke designs that can be reproduced at scale. . The Barry Callebaut Group ‘s global decoration brand, Mona Lisa, is...
by David | Mar 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Maker Movement, Medical
On Thursday afternoon, the executive director of Open Works laid off all 21 of his part-time employees as the financial implications of the coronavirus pandemic took their toll. By Saturday afternoon, the maker community gave Will Holman hope that he could hire at...
by David | Mar 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Medical
An Angus-based 3D printing company is in talks with counterparts in Italy about using the technology to print parts for life-saving medical devices. The move follows reports that a hospital in Brescia, near one of the hardest-hit regions for coronavirus infections in...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | 3D News Video, 3D Trends Video, Construction Video, Video
Number of Views: 9 Facing a dramatically increasing urbanization worldwide and our limited resources, we need to find new ways to design and fabricate buildings. Digitalization and automation, which are still in their infancy in architecture and the construction...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | 3D 101 Video, Video
Number of Views: 13 3D Printing helped save lives when Cristian Fracassi from Isinnova modeled and 3d printed a Venturi valve for respirators. Italian doctors couldn’t get them fast enough from the manufacturer for the Coronavirus / COVID-19 response. This story...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | Manufacturing and Supply Chain
Close-up of a tubular structure made by simultaneous printing and self-assembly of graphene oxide and a protein. Image: Professor Alvaro Mata. An international team of scientists, led by Alvaro Mata at the University of Nottingham and Queen Mary University London in...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | 3D News, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Medical
The main issue, as explained in a New York Times reportage, is that, to put it plainly, “ there aren’t enough ventilators to cope with the coronavirus “. The reason why there aren’t enough is that they are extremely difficult to produce and so it takes a long time,...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | 3D News, COVID-19, Medical
As more and more patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, resources at health facilities are being strained. That’s why flattening the curve is so important, so that there’s not a sudden influx of patients and then a shortage of beds or vital equipment. . In Italy,...
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