3D Printing News Unpeeled: Green elastomers, Urban Reefs and Better Packing

Arkema has launched its castor oil bio-based Pebax Rnew elastomers. You can now order parts from Erpro 3D Factory. The material is a block copolymers composite of harder polyamide blocks and soft polyether blocks. It has long lasting energy return and could be of interest to shoe makers.

voxeljet has showcased an cold IOB (Inorganic Binding) binder jet technology for sand cores and casting. This could improve cycle times and be more sustainable.

The Urban Reef is an idea from Pierre Oskam and Max Latour to dev flop 3D printed structures that are porous and engender life in the city.

XtreeE has added three new partners in Switzerland, the US and Japan bringing its total to 12 worldwide. .

MIT CSAIL has worked with Inkbit to develop  dense, interlocking-free and Scalable Spectral Packing (SSP) which optimizes the batch 3D printing non-interlocking parts at high densities.