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Professional Additive Manufacturing
By “professional additive manufacturing”, we intend all those categories of 3D printing adoption that relate to the creative and artistic spheres. These include applications in architecture, construction, design, arts & crafts as well as entertainment (movies and animation) and designer consumer products such as furniture and jewelry.
This category of adopters has grown enormously in recent years as the cost of professional level AM systems has decreased from over $100,000 to between $20,000 and $5,000. This enormous paradigm shift has opened up 3D printing to a wide demographic of users that have innovated and imagined new application possibilities for AM. The process is still very much ongoing as the abundance of news and articles in this section clearly indicate.
Several artists and creatives have embraced plastic and in many cases ceramics based technologies to explore new possibilities in both end-use products and their supply to the final user. 3D printing is seen as the key technology that will enable the production of mass customized items, produced on-demand, on location, by professionals in any part of the world.
Global professional and B2C additive manufacturing services such as Shapeways, iMaterialise and Sculpteo have also contributed to expanding this area of AM by making high-end 3D printing technologies easily accessible and affordable for more people all over the world.
Latest professional AM news:
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Over the past few months, Namthaja, a Saudi Arabian 3D printing solutions provider that currently has more than 60 printers that have produced more than 150,000 parts, has opted to…
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ETH Zurich is pioneering the future of sustainable construction with one of its innovations from earlier this year: lightweight, insulating building components produced by 3D printing. Spearheaded by doctoral researcher…
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The Galleria Gwanggyo, a modern shopping center in Gwanggyon, South Korea, stands as a testament to the advanced application of 3D printing in architectural design and construction. Spearheaded by a…
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3D Next Level, a Netherlands-based large format 3D printing specialist, has purchased Photocentric’s Liquid Crystal Titan 3D printer, one of the largest LCD 3D printers in the world. Titan enables…
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Tiffany & Co. has recently unveiled its newest store – with a coral-inspired, 3D printed façade – located at Singapore’s prestigious Changi Airport. The façade was designed by MVRDV, and…
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The R. Buckminster Fuller Dome Home Not-For-Profit and Mighty Buildings, a 3D printing construction technology company, are set to jointly design and develop a new visitor center and museum at…
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According to an article on Dezeen, British designer Gareth Neal and Dutch studio The New Raw have used thrice-recycled plastic and a new 3D printing method to create the objects…
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As part of the Beautés exhibition, the FRAC Auvergne presented three additively manufactured sculptures by Agnès Geoffray, created using technology from AddUp. This artist residency was supported by the DRAC…
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Massivit 3D Printing Technologies (TASE: MSVT), a leading provider of large-format industrial 3D printing systems, is showcasing the Massivit 5000 large-scale 3D printer at IAAPA Expo Europe in Vienna, Austria…
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Signify, a world leader in lighting, has successfully completed the final stage of its project with Seoudi Supermarkets, one of the largest and oldest retail chains in Egypt – implementing…
