3D Printing Stories We Missed - May 2nd

[Brian_Krassenstein]

This week's news we didn't cover includes new 3D printing services, such as Materialise's upcoming massive 3D model database, Scanning Cars' online selection of printable auto models, and Israeli-based 3DShook's new unlimited printing subscription. Reify's stereolithographic 3D printer, Solus DLP, is improved and can be pre-ordered, and a team from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has won an innovative design competition for lightweight cars. In Netherlands' medical news, one Dutch team has invented a moisture holding hydrogel that is compatible with large scale regenerative bone cartilage repair, and another Dutch team has printed its first human clavicle for use in a surgery preparation. Last but not least, a new San Francisco-based company claims it can bioprint rhino horns to replace poaching and save the species. Check them out: http://3dprint.com/61948/stories-we-missed-may-2/

[davidrt]

Cant wait for this. Hopefully this would happen in my lifetime. When its a norm and its not that expensive!

Wave of future: 3D printing industry to quadruple by 2020

3D printing can produce almost everything from human stem cells to a car,and is at its most popular in the industry's 29–year history. It has grown by 35.2 percent in 2014 and is expected to become a $20.2 billion global industry by the end of the decade.

The global industry for 3D printing, or additive manufacturing as it is sometimes called, was worth $4.1 billion last year, following a 34.9 percent growth on 2013, according to Wohlers Report 2015. The industry has experienced a compound annual growth rate of 33.8 percent over the last three years.

It’s impossible to find another industry with more than 25 years of experience that could have such kind of growth, says consultancy founder Terry Wohlers, who has been tracking the growth of the additive manufacturing industry since the 1980s.

http://rt.com/business/253785-3d-pri...dustry-growth/