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Fiber-reinforced chassis for light commercial vehicles

Sustainable solution with polyurethane resin / High productivity through continuous production / Simple assembly, superior crash performance

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Wear-free process monitoring during production

New HASCO presents new proximity switches for precise, contact-free position monitoring

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Additive manufacturing & 3D

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News 08.11.2018

Polyether ether ketone for 3D printed implants

Evonik develops the world’s first PEEK filament in implant-grade quality for additive manufacturing

Сase studies

Four new additive manufacturing grades

DSM adds 3D-printing grades to Digimat to accelerate adoption of polymer additive manufacturing

News 01.11.2018

Increasing effectiveness with 3-D printing

Spang & Brands will exhibit a variety of different plastics engineering solutions for applications in medical technology

News 25.10.2018

Solvay to fast forward in innovation for additive manufacturing

New materials, an e-commerce platform, a series of collaborations and even startups accelerator events

News 18.10.2018

3D printing solutions by Arkema

The company presents a new commercial platform dedicated to each of the major 3D printing technologies

News 18.10.2018

3D printing innovations and next-generation formulations

LANXESS Urethane Systems business unit extends collaboration with University of Massachusetts Amherst

News 11.10.2018

World premiere at the formnext 2018

ARBURG will exhibit a new large freeformer for industrial additive manufacturing of complex functional components

News 20.09.2018

DSM and FormFutura announce distribution collaboration

FormFutura will distribute high performance additive manufacturing filaments to customers in this fast-growing segment