Kerry Stevenson

5 days ago | fabbaloo.com | Kerry Stevenson

Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. Publicly traded companies are required to post their financial reports, as well as appear on stock markets. From there we can calculate the total value of their company by multiplying the current stock price by the number of outstanding shares. This number is the market capitalization, and represents the current valuation of the company.

1 week ago | fabbaloo.com | Kerry Stevenson

Why isn’t there an official spool format standard? I’ve used desktop FFF 3D printers for over fifteen years now, and I’ve seen all kinds of filament spools. In the beginning, they were typically designed around the machine and came in quite a range of formats. Interoperability was a bit of a gamble. One reason for the different spool formats was a weak attempt by 3D printer manufacturers to encourage operators to purchase their spools instead of those from third parties.

1 week ago | fabbaloo.com | Kerry Stevenson

Researchers have made a bit of a breakthrough with sustainable 3D printer resins. 3D printer resins are quite useful, but also problematic due to their typical toxicity and non-sustainable sourcing. The researchers intended to reduce the effect of the latter. They produced a more sustainable resin by preparing a 50-50 mix of bio-sourced materials and synthetic polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA).

1 week ago | fabbaloo.com | Kerry Stevenson

AMT’s latest product is a lot smaller. The UK-based company produces advanced post-processing equipment for parts produced with a variety of 3D printing processes, including SLS, SAF, MJF, FFF, and more. Their technology depowdering solutions, as well as advanced vapor smoothing technologies. These processes are typically used to refine printed parts to a finished state, usually for production end use.

1 week ago | fabbaloo.com | Kerry Stevenson

FAME 3D announced a new 3D print service: LulzBot Direct. The Fargo-based company manufactures robust desktop 3D printers, most notably the TAZ series. They are one of the very few US-based manufacturers of desktop 3D printers and should benefit from the new tariff regime. We don’t know how the tariffs are affecting LulzBot operations, but we do know that they have launched a 3D print service.