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Latest TCT Japan News
The latest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news and developments from Japan.
Fictiv
Fictiv to be acquired by MISUMI in $350 million deal
The all-cash deal will pair the manufacturing service platform’s AI-driven digital supply chain network with MISUMI’s catalogue of mechanical components, tools and consumables, supplied to over 318,000 companies worldwide.
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Alloyed
Alloyed raises £37 million in Series B round with two Japanese organisations leading investment
The investment will be harnessed to support the expansion of the company's manufacturing facilities in Abingdon, UK, and Seattle, USA.
Honda
Honda lifts hood on use of metal 3D printing
The Japanese automaker says it is working across a variety of mobility fields where it ‘expects’ to deploy additive manufacturing, including automobiles, motorcycles, power products, motorsports and aerospace.
Nikon
Nikon opens Additive Manufacturing Technology Center in Japan
Based in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture, Nikon says the new AM Technology Center will support the company's plan to 'revolutionise manufacturing while enabling and scaling the industrial base using cutting-edge solutions from Nikon.'
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Roland DG launches two ceramic binder jet 3D printers
The machines are geared towards complex applications in creative sectors such as “interior decoration, architecture, fine art, and arts and crafts industries, as well as educational and research institutions in history and culture.”
Thomas Eberius
Additive manufacturing adoption within the tooling industry
Thomas Eberius, Senior Consultant at the ACAM Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing GmbH shares insights on AM as a key enabler for eco-effective value creation in the tooling industry.
Tom Ranson
TCT 3Sixty: Natural History Museum's Tom Ranson on making history accessible with 3D technologies
Ahead of TCT 3Sixty, Tom Ranson, 3D Visualisation Specialist at the Natural History Museum answers a few questions about solving research and conservation challenges with 3D scanning and 3D printing.
Juri Munk
Pushing Boundaries: Metal additive manufacturing innovations from Earth to space
Juri Munk, Researcher at the German Aerospace Center – DLR, discusses how the centre is researching metal AM for deployment in aircraft engines to rocket propulsion systems.
TCT 3Sixty
TCT 3Sixty: Javaid Butt - Additive manufacturing innovation is "increasingly becoming more about data intelligence"
Ahead of TCT 3Sixty, we spoke to Javaid Butt (JB), Professor of Manufacturing and Product Design at Birmingham City University who will be presenting on the Innovation Stage about optimising AM with AI and digital twin.
Matthew Bailey
Targeting an order of magnitude growth in 3D printed flying aerospace parts
Matthew Bailey, Lead Technologist – Structures, Manufacturing & Materials at the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), on growing the number of flying AM parts designed and manufactured by a UK-based supply chain.
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TCT 3Sixty
TCT 3Sixty: Sherri Monroe - "Too often sustainability is viewed as a cost or a trade-off to economic viability"
We put some questions to Sherri Monroe, Executive Director at the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association who will be speaking on the TCT Innovation Stage about framing AM and sustainability across the enterprise.
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InnovMetric
Q&A: InnovMetric on the importance of a digital thread
Following its PolyWorks Conference Live 2025 event, Manufacturing Quality spoke with Marc Soucy, PhD, President and Co-Founder of InnovMetric, to get the inside scoop on PolyWorks Digital Thread, PolyWorks|Inspector, and PolyWorks|Data Loop.
TCT
The economics of additive manufacturing are broken — here's how to fix it
Leap 71 co-founder Lin Kayser has his say on the economics of the additive manufacturing industry, with suggestions on how the industry can get itself out of a 'death spiral.'
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Protolabs
Protolabs launches instant manufacturability analysis for 3D printing
Protolabs has launched instant design for additive manufacturability (DfAM) analysis on 3D printed parts through its online quoting platform. The automated feedback enables product developers and engineers to optimise additive designs.
America Makes
Additive manufacturing's potential to reinvigorate the U.S. supply chain
John Wilczynski, Executive Director of America Makes on how advanced manufacturing is reinventing possibilities in supply chain.
Shutterstock
Digital transformation of operations and supply chains through the use of additive manufacturing
Dr. Siavash H. Khajavi and Prof. Jan Holmström explore the impact of additive manufacturing on supply chains in relation to digital inventories and spare parts and bridge manufacturing (also known as stopgap manufacturing).
University of Exeter CALM
Can powder testing accelerate the development of new feedstocks for AM?
The University of Exeter's Professor Oana Ghita offers thoughts on how an optimised testing strategy can make a big difference when it comes to developing new additive manufacturing powders.
What to expect from the 2021 AMUG Conference
AMUG’s AM Industry Advisor Todd Grimm details what we can expect from this year’s Additive Manufacturing User Group Conference in Orlando, Florida.
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Massivit
Full Throttle LSAM for Transportation
Massivit details how large-scale additive manufacturing is serving all stages of manufacturing workflows from design and development through tooling and production across industries such as yachting, private aircraft and advanced air mobility.
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Tariffs and Additive Manufacturing: Status and the Pulse of the Industry
Mahdi Jamshid, PhD, Director of Market Intelligence, and Pablo Enrique, PhD, Additive Manufacturing Manager, at Wohlers Associates, powered by ASTM International share their thoughts on the impact the USA's tariff policies will have on the AM market.
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Massivit
Full Throttle LSAM for Transportation
Massivit details how large-scale additive manufacturing is serving all stages of manufacturing workflows from design and development through tooling and production across industries such as yachting, private aircraft and advanced air mobility.
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Arkema
Revolutionizing 3D Printing with Arkema's Easy3D Platform
3YOURMIND and Arkema have partnered to create a customer platform providing material suggestions and a supplier network for on-demand manufacturing.
Lithoz GmbH
Lithoz is the global market and technology leader for ceramic 3D printing systems and materials. Their Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing technology has applications in industry, medicine and dentistry, as well as serial production.
