In January 2015, voxeljet commenced operations and began printing parts for customers at its North American Services facility located in Canton, Michigan (near Detroit). The approximately 50,000 square foot facility will initially operate four large-format printers to support both the sand casting and investment casting markets. The Company expects to install additional sand and plastic printers, including the VX4000 during the course of the year. Voxeljet anticipates its Canton, Michigan facility having similar printing capacity to its Friedberg, Germany service center by the end of 2016.

Canon Europe, a leader in imaging solutions, today announces a distribution agreement with 3D Systems, a leading global provider of 3D printing technology. Under the arrangement, Canon will market, sell and support 3D Systems' advanced manufacturing 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and 7000 in the UK and Ireland, with a view to rolling out across Europe.

To Ulli Klenk, chairman of the board of the Additive Manufacturing Association within VDMA, the goal is clear: "We need to get out of laboratories and into industrial production!" Within additive manufacturing, the German industry has attained a good starting position, which it will now need to use for industrialization of the procedures, so Klenk said at the general assembly of the Association taking place in the Hamburg based LZN Laser Zentrum Nord GmbH.

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Live demos of the system will be presented at Camtek's booth in IPC APEX next week

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ: CAMT and TASE: CAMT) today announced the launch of Gryphon SL at the IPC APEX EXPO in San Diego, which will be held from February 22 until the 26th .

MecklerMedia Corporation (OTCQX: MECK) announced several new additions to 3D Print Week New York, including two days of free 3D printing sessions hosted by MakerBot, sponsorship from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and the 3D Print Fashion Show, sponsored by Materialise.

While the Stegosaurus happily competes with both the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Diplodocus as being every other child's favourite dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that as well as being relatively rare in its own time, it has always remained something of an enigma, our lack of knowledge - about its weight, the purpose of those enormous plates, or even how it managed to eat - complicated by a worldwide scarcity of well-preserved skeletons.
Until, that is, last year, when London's Natural History Museum, in a private donor assisted coup, managed to purchase the Stegosaurus, nicknamed Sophie, an unprecedentedly well-preserved skeleton having been discovered in 2005, in Wyoming, America. Unveiled last December, its5.6 by 2.9 metre frame occupies pride of place in the Museum's Earth Hall.

Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), a leading global provider of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions, has introduced a new 3D printing curriculum for educators. The full-semester, 14-week course is aimed to help prepare secondary and post-secondary students worldwide for careers being transformed by 3D printing.