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A cranial implant must fit precisely to ensure a satisfactory long-term outcome for the patient. Slovakian company CEIT Biomedical Engineering is taking steps to achieve this by making use of additive manufacturing technology.

In the mid 1970s, Rubik’s Cube became one of the world’s most popular toys and by January 2009, more than 350 million had been sold. Now, a worthy successor has arrived that could only have been created using additive manufacturing.

Ecological compatibility, high technical performance and low manufacturing costs are the main attributes of two new powder materials introduced by EOS for layer-by-layer 3D printing of plastic components in its additive manufacturing machines.

Laser sintering specialist, EOS, in collaboration with EADS Group’s research and technology production facility, EADS Innovation Works (IW), has begun a study to understand the potential of the direct metal laser-sintering (DMLS) process to generate savings in the use of energy and raw materials. It will help to develop a new range of manufacturing technologies that will integrate sustainability-relevant features into products and product manufacturing.

A UK university is achieving outstanding results reproducing textile-like structures using a plastic laser sintering process. The EOS system is able to produce exact replicas of computer aided design models by selectively fusing successive, 100-micron layers of fine nylon powder