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For custom mountain bikes, additive manufacturing delivers an edge

February 1, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Atherton Bikes was launched in January by the Atherton siblings, Gee, Rachel and Dan and co-founded by Piers Linney of Dragons’ Den fame. The Atherton family are World Championship-winning mountain bikers who will race their own downhill mountain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Consumer Products, Directed Energy Deposition, Materials Tagged With: Renishaw

Software makes additive build prep of dental frameworks 75% faster

October 1, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Global engineering company Renishaw offers QuantAM Dental software, which automates additive manufacturing (AM) build preparation for hundreds of dental frameworks in a single operation. The software, which was launched in March 2017, can cut … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Medical, Rapid Prototyping, Software Tagged With: Renishaw

Is the Medical Device Regulation a threat to additive manufacturing?

May 24, 2018 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

Bryan Austin, General Manager of global engineering company, Renishaw’s Medical and Dental Products Division When the European Union’s (EU’s) new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) was first introduced in 2017, it set in motion a three-year countdown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Medical, News Tagged With: Renishaw

Renishaw presents metal 3D printing systems for dental device manufacturing

February 5, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

At LMT LABDAY, the largest dental laboratory event in North America, Renishaw will show its metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems for the production of crowns and bridges and removable partial dentures (RPDs). Optimised for healthcare, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Medical Tagged With: Renishaw

Tips on working with Nickel and Nickel alloys in metal additive manufacturing

June 14, 2017 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Other high temperature superalloy compositions have been based on the Ni group alloys known as Inconel, with the two most frequent variants being 625 and 718. The choice of which alloy to use will depend on the maximum operating temperature and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FAQs Tagged With: Renishaw

What to know about working with steel materials in additive manufacturing

June 7, 2017 By Leslie Langnau 2 Comments

Steel powders can be sub-divided into either tool steels or stainless steels, and there has been a vast body of work carried out over the last 15 years or so to study the performance of these alloys both in the AM process and in actual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FAQs, Materials Tagged With: Renishaw

What are some less known features of Titanium with regard to additive manufacturing?

June 2, 2017 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

Common titanium alloy is designated as Ti6Al4V, a.k.a. Ti64. This alloy is versatile and used across many industry sectors due to its high strength-to-weight ratio; it’s comparable to steel but at almost half the weight. This alloy has a single … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FAQs Tagged With: Renishaw

6 points to know when choosing metals for additive manufacturing

June 1, 2017 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

It should be simple to select a material for metal additive manufacturing (AM), after all, most materials are metals in powder form. But it’s not as simple as it seems, claims Renishaw, a company that has been working with metal alloys in additive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Directed Energy Deposition, Industries, Leslie's blog, Materials, Powder Bed Fusion Tagged With: Renishaw

RenAM 500M additive system handles serialized production

May 18, 2017 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Designed and engineered for serialized production, the Renishaw RenAM 500M additive manufacturing system builds complex metallic components directly from CAD using metal powder bed fusion technology. The RenAM 500M is first in a family of products … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, Industries, Medical, News, Powder Bed Fusion Tagged With: Renishaw

Renishaw advancing additive manufacturing in the U.S.

February 1, 2017 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Renishaw, Inc. will move into a new 133,000 sq-ft office and warehouse facility in West Dundee, IL, about 40 miles from Chicago. The two-story facility will be the company’s new North American headquarters, but also includes space for product … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Renishaw

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