Business Minister Anna Soubry has opened new cutting edge research facilities in Coventry and announced new technology projects to keep the UK a world leader in aerospace.

Ford has been using conventional 3D printing technologies to prototype new product designs for more than twenty years. Recently, the company developed a dedicated new additive manufacturing research program to explore the potential of new technologies to manufacture vehicle-ready parts.

3D printing the first fully functional steel bridge in the world.

Most of the interesting developments achieved using multimaterial 3D printing have required a paradigm shift in design software.

Carnegie Mellon University experts have projected the top 10 things in 3-D metal printing.

PTC and Stratasys Ltd has announced the companies are working together to deliver a seamless experience between PTC Creo® design software and Stratasys 3D Printing Solutions.

Metal 3D printing is allowing the technology to be adopted for part production in the aerospace, orthopaedic, dental and jewellery industries, and is now being developed for the oil and gas, printed electronics, and general engineering.

Development of 3D printers in a microgravity environment for the Aerospace Industry.

Researchers are proposing to use Macadamia shells as a basic element in a new Microtimber, made using pioneering 3D-printing technology.

DARPA's Open Manufacturing program seeks to build and demonste rapid qualification technologies that comprehensively capture, analyze and control variability in the manufacturing process to predict the properties of resulting products.

3D Systems has announced its role in a $1.3 million contract to design, build and test a cutting-edge aircraft heat exchanger to be manufactured using 3D printing.