Additive Manufacturing Materials: 2022 Roundup of Developments

Additive manufacturing materials are often the driver for new applications including production applications. In 2022, the AM community introductions of new materials for electronics, tissue fabrication, corrosive environments, consumer products, sporting equipment, and more. Looking to both repeatable quality results toward achieving production with AM, several materials were qualified or certified on 3D printers. Take a look at the 2022 materials development.

Formlabs Enters 2022 With New 3D Printers and Resins:  Formlabs announced ESD Resin, the company’s first static-dissipative material, developed for applications that require ESD-safe parts to protect objects and electronics sensitive to unregulated static discharge.  READ MORE

Carbon Unveils New Flame-Retardant Resin as Part of Its Idea-to-Production Platform: Carbon introduced EPX 86FR, a flame retardant photopolymer resin that uses Carbon’s patented dual-cure process. READ MORE

Tethon Corporation and Showa Denko America Announce Collaboration for Innovative Ceramic Resin: Tethon 3D collaborated with Showa Denko K.K. to introduce a high purity alumina UV resin. READ MORE

NASA’s New Additive Manufacturing Material Built to Withstand Extreme Conditions: NASA developed a metal alloy, NASA Alloy GRX-810, an oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy. READ MORE

Fortify Announces Several High-Value Materials for Electronics Market and New Funding: Fortify announced availability of a suite of materials for electronics applications including to address low-loss dielectrics, high-temperature electrostatic-discharge safe, thermally conductive, and electrically resistive polymers as well as technical ceramics. READ MORE

Braskem Releases Lineup of Sustainable 3D Printing Filaments for Additive Manufacturing: Braskem released three sustainable 3D printing filaments including filamanet produced from bio-based ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) filament derived from raw sugarcane as well from recycled polyethylene and polypropylene (PE/PP) blended filaments with, or without, carbon fiber. READ MORE

NovaCentrix Debuts Gold Inks for Biomedical, Electronics, and High-Corrosion Environments: NovaCentrix released jettable gold ink, Metalon® JG.line of jettable gold inks are biomedical and electronicsapplication. READ MORE

Essentium and Vorum Advance Biocompatible 3D Printing for the Orthotics and Prosthetics Industry: Essentium collaborated with Vorum to introduce a line of 3D printing materials that have passed biocompatility test for skin contac.  READ MORE

Dentistry: SprintRay Resin Makes Restorative 3D Printing More Affordable: SprintRay announced SprintRay Crown™ by BEGO, a FDA-cleared, 3D printing resin for restorative care in digital dentistry. READ MORE

EOS Expands Metal AM Materials Portfolio with Four New Materials: EOS  introduced of four new metal materials for additive manufacturing (AM) on the EOS M 290 metal system, including two stainless steels, one tool steel and one nickel alloy: StainlessSteel 254, StainlessSteel SuperDuplex, ToolSteel CM55, and NickelAlloy HAYNES® 282® READ MORE

New 3D Printing Material Alternative to PVA:  Infinite Materials Solutions, LL`C launched AquaSys® General Purpose (GP), a water-soluble support material compatible with most polyesters. READ MORE

Desktop Metal Qualifies IN625 on the Studio System 2: Desktop Metal, Inc. qualified the use of IN625, a nickel alloy inconel, for the Studio System making a total of eight materials for their metal extrusion 3D printing system. READ MORE

Argyle Materials Releases ABS M30-Like Materials with UL94 HB Ratings: Argyle launcheda ABS M30-like material for Fortus. READ MORE

3D Systems Announced CuNi (CuNi30) Alloy for Laser Powder Bed Fusion: 3D Systems announced CuNi30, a corrosion-resistant, copper-nickel alloy for use with its DMP Flex 350 metal 3D printer. READ MORE

Velo3D Qualifies M300 Tool Steel for Use in Its Sapphire Family of Printers: Velo3D announced M300 tool steel, an ultra-low carbon alloy, is qualified for use in Sapphire printers. READ MORE

Markforged Introduces Smooth TPU 95A to Produce High Quality, Flexible Parts: Markforged announced the addition of Smooth TPU 95A .READ MORE

Production Grade Materials Introduced by 3D Systems: 3D Systems announced Figure 4^® Tough Clear and DuraForm^® PAx Black , two production-grade materials. READ MORE

17-4PH Stainless Steel Powder for Binder Jetting (BJT) Launched by Uniformity Labs: Uniformity Labs released its ultra-low porosity 17-4PH stainless steel powder for the Desktop Metal Shop Pro Binder Jetting (BJT) platform. READ MORE

Nickel Alloy Inconel 625 Now Qualified on All Desktop Metal 3D Printing Systems, including the Shop System™:  Desktop Metal announced that nickel alloy Inconel 625 (IN625) has been qualified on the Shop System. READ MORE

Nexa3D Adds New Photoplastic Materials, Further Expanding its Industrial 3D Printing Applications: Nexa3D announced three photoplastic resins: ESD Resin | xESD, and Modeling Materials – xMODEL15 and xMODEL35. READ MORE

Chromatic Announces Breakthrough Smooth-Mode Technology for Ultra-Smooth 3D-Printed Rubber Parts: Chromatic 3D Materials  developed Smooth-Mode technology for 3D printing of durable rubber parts with ultra-smooth surfaces at commercial volumes. READ MORE

Post-Consumer Recycled Resins Offered by M. Holland Company: M. Holland Company announced resins with up to 100%- PCR content. READ MORE

Carbon’s Developmental Bioabsorbable Elastomer Platform has Demonstrated Biocompatibility in Vivo: Carbon announced that its developmental bioabsorbable elastomer platform has demonstrated biocompatibility in vivo, with all samples being designated as non-toxic and exhibiting tunable times for full absorption. READ MORE

Validated Materials and Open Material Options: 13 New  Now Available From Stratasys: Stratasys  announced availability of 13 new Validated materials for the Fortus^® 450mc 3D printer, as well as SAF™ PA12 powder from new materials partner ALM for the H350^® 3D printer. The OpenAM™ software, including an open material license, is also now available for the Fortus 450mc printer, enabling printing with exploratory open materials. READ MORE

High-performance Metals: 3D Systems Strengthens Materials Portfolio:  3D Systems announced the addition of two high-performance metals — Certified HX and Certified CuCr2.4, both certified for use on DMP Flex 350, and DMP Factory 350 3D printers. READ MORE

Strategic Partnership:Henkel and Carbon Expand  to Provide Customers Superior Materials and Printing Capabilities: Henkel and Carbon announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to offer several new resins. READ MORE

Damping Elastomers: EPU 43 and EPU 45 Expand Carbon’s Idea-to-Production Platform and Offer New Opportunities for Impact Production: Carbon announced two damping elastomers, EPU 43, an energy-damping elastomer; and EPU 45. EPU 45 with highest level of  damping performance and printability within the Carbon portfolio. READ MORE

Ultra-Low Oxygen Titanium Powder: 6K Additive  Helping Increase Quality While Lowering Overall Print Cost: 6K Additive announced availability of ultra-low oxygen titanium 64 with parts per million range of 500 – 700. 6K READ MORE

Titan Tough Epoxy 85 Launched by Inkbit:  Inkbit unveiled Titan Tough Epoxy 85 for the Inkbit Vista ecosystem. READ MORE

Metal Binder Jet Printers: Availability of H13 Metal Powder:  Digital Metal (from Markforged) announced the availability of H13 metal powder for all Digital Metal binder jet printers under the name DM H13 READ MORE

BIO INX Launches New Biocompatible Material for Live Cell Encapsulation: BIO INX launched Hydrobio INX N400, a bioresin enabling live cell encapsulation in 3D printing with Nanoscribe’s Two-Photon Polymerization technology. READ MORE

Sustainable Polymer Materials for Responsible Manufacturing: EOS  introduced sustainable polymer materials: a climate neutral PA 1101 and carbon-reduced PA 2200 polymer material. EOS also unveiled Fine Detail Resolution (FDR) for the FORMIGA P 110 polymer system. READ MORE

Photopolymers: Evonik Launches Three New Materials for 3D Printing: Evonik launched three new INFINAM® photopolymers for industrial 3D applications: INFINAM® RG 2000 L for the eyewear industry, INFINAM® RG 7100 L with isotropic properties and low moisture absorption, and INFINAM® TI 5400, a PVC-like resin for limited edition designer toys.  READ MORE

Photopolymer Resins: Nexa3D Releases Ceramic, Flexible, and Clear Materials:  Nexa3D announced availability of three photopolymer resins: xCERAMIC3280, xMODEL17-Clear, and xFLEX402.  READ MORE

LithaBone HA 480 – Lithoz Unveils Improved Ceramic Material for 3D-printed Bone Replacements: Lithoz  developed LithaBone HA 480, a human bone-like ceramic material for bone replacements. READ MORE

Sintavia Develops Proprietary Niobium Printing Technology: Sintavia developed proprietary material parameters for alloy C103, a high-performance niobium alloy, a refractory metal. READ MORE

Particles: Enabling More Functionality to 3D Printing Filaments: Purdue University researchers have developed a patent-pending method to add particles to filament and disperse them evenly through a traditional fused deposition modeling. READ MORE

Balena Steps Out with 100% Biodegradable Footwear: Balena debuted its eco-chic BioCir Slides, made of its proprietary, 100% biodegradable3D printable plastic, BioCir™. READ MORE

Essent Biologics Launches Micronized Bone Matrix for 3D Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering Applications:  Essent Biologics™ announced availability of Micronized Bone Matrix (MBM) for 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering applications. READ MORE

Uniformity Labs Ultra-Low Porosity UniFuse™ 316L 90um Stainless Steel Powder Delivers Improved Mechanical Properties at Much Higher Throughput for Laser Powder Bed Fusion: Uniformity Labs announced availability of UniFuse™ 316L ultra-low porosity stainless steel powder. READ MORE