by David | Apr 1, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Medical
Personal Protective Masks are hard to come by these days. One company in Rensselaer designed a face mask that’s being made with 3D printers. . “We are trying to help out we are trying to do our part.,” said Ron Kasparian the owner of You’ll Never Guess...
by David | Apr 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Maker Movement, Medical
Oregon Governor Kate Brown says her biggest concern right now is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses and doctors. . “We’re just getting stories about how they’re being told to reuse everything or someone told me yesterday that...
by David | Apr 1, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Medical
With a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), RPM 3D Printing CEO Chase Carlyle says he wanted to help those on the front lines stay safe. . “The idea to 3D print visors was because since there’s a shortage of PPE materials right now, there’s a lot of...
by David | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Medical
Corporate, government and individual efforts to use additive manufacturing (AM) to address the medical supply shortages resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak are continuing. We continue to stress that the industry can not yet verify the safety of many of the items...
by David | Mar 31, 2020 | 3D News, 3D Trends, Companies, Environment
Three collaborating companies have proposed the use of autonomous 3D-printing technologies to monitor and repair the damage to buildings, coral reefs and coastlines that challenging environmental problems cause. . The Danish companies – GXN Innovation, The...
by David | Mar 31, 2020 | 3D News, 3D Printed Organs, 3D Trends, Medical
Number of Views: 11 3D printing holds the promise of changing the healthcare industry for the better offering patients things like smarter drugs and hyper customized prosthetics. However, like something out of the 1990 film Dark Man, it might become commonplace for...
by David | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Medical
It seems to be the case that 3D printing related relief efforts are beginning to coalesce with government and medical regulatory efforts to, hopefully, ensure that rapid response to the COVID-19 outbreak from the additive manufacturing (AM) community is safe and...
by David | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Medical
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now working with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the 3D printing trade group America Makes to provide some coherence and regulation to the work of additive companies and...
by David | Mar 30, 2020 | 3D News, COVID-19, Geopolitical Regions, Medical
DLR, German’s space agency and NASA equivalent, is doing what it can to support the global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) used by frontline healthcare workers in their efforts to treat those affected by COVID-19. . DLR announced that it has...
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