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Opportunities for circular economy in Innovate UK’s Materials and Manufacturing competition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 23, 2016

Innovate UK’s latest funding competition includes potential awards for those with designs for product end-of-life, materials reuse, and remanufacture Innovate…

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Doggy delights

Posted by DEVELOP3D - October 27, 2016

As pet tech takes off, this month Stephen Holmes looks at some of the best modern products for the dogs…

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How ESA chose its materials for a space mission to the sun

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 2, 2016

http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/content/view/embedjw/477505 Space is a not a single environment, but many: so the manufacturing materials and processes used for each new…

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Temperature-dependent data for materials added to Granta MI

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 16, 2016

Granta MI enables access to materials data from directly within CAE software. An agreement between Granta Design and JAHM Software…

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Big Rep partners with Kühling&Kühling for new pro FDM machine

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 29, 2016

The VP75 will be a dual-branded FDM machine capable of outputting ‘engineering grade’ materials Big Rep and Kühling&Kühling have partnered…

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VIDEO // First day back? Lets make a skateboard from toilet paper

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 3, 2017

//giphy.com/embed/aNK5hGoyRKVz2 Today is probably your first day back at work in 2017, so once you’ve soldiered through the 97 emails…

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Formlabs celebrates its ceramics at CES

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 9, 2017

Formlabs has announced its latest resin for 3D printing ceramic parts, allowing the creation of structures and complex geometries not…

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Researchers at the University of Manchester discover inkjet printable 2D material inks

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 30, 2017

By combining graphene with other 2D materials, new materials are being created for applications that were once thought to be…

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Formlabs updates Durable resin

Posted by Al Dean - February 1, 2017

Formlabs’ Durable Resin has been updated – perfect for prototyping those tricky polyprop parts Hot on the heels of the…

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Other Reading // The Materials Sourcebook for Design Professionals

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 6, 2017

With a seemingly infinite number of creative choices for materials, understanding them all properly helps designers make inspired decisions in…

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