16 – 3D Printing at PTXPO and New Modalities in Polymer

Julia Hider shares 3D printing for production and various kinds of tooling spotted at the first-ever Plastics Technology Expo. Then, she and Pete Zelinski discuss new methods of 3D printing with polymers that deliver greater freedoms in terms of layer width, layer height, material viscosity and more.

This episode is brought to you by the Additive Manufacturing Conference at IMTS. The call for papers is open through April 29, 2022.

• The Graduate plastics clip
• PTXPO
• AM 101: Multi Jet Fusion
• Another example of 3D printed plastics replacing metal
• Mantle’s technology for 3D printed injection mold tooling
  • Medical tweezers case study
• Xact Metal
  • What is laser powder bed fusion?
• Fortify
  • Ceramic fiber filled DLP
• 3D printed Innovent ejector pins from Next Chapter Manufacturing
  • Video of the demo from Next Chapter Manufacturing’s booth
  • 3D printed porous copper filter
• 3D printed cutting tools
• 3D printed end of arm tooling
  • 3D printed end of arm tooling section compared to traditional EOAT
• Where to find pictures and videos from PTXPO: Twitter and Instagram
• Sculpman’s variable nozzle FFF
• Adaxis’ technology for variable layer height
• Examples of robots and 3D printing
• Vatless vat polymerization from BCN3D
• Inkbit’s material jetting process for more viscous polymers
• Seven types of AM from ASTM