Product Development 
Design Reality, a design agency from St Asaph, Wales, the UK, has invested €175,000 in the Objet Connex 260, a multi-material 3D printer
10 April 2013
Objet has launched the Objet30 OrthoDesk 3D printer, specially designed for smaller orthodontic labs and clinics
10 April 2013
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen sent models down the runway at Paris Fashion Week wearing outfits made out of thermoplastic polyurethane
24 January 2013
Technologies including ‘smart’ fabrics and 3D printing have been highlighted as some of the innovations that could drive UK economic growth, according to the latest Foresight report
26 November 2012
Themes at this year's Euromold fair include 3D printed jewellery, mouldmaking components and rapid technologies. In this preview of Euromold, taking place on 27-30 November in Frankfurt, David Vink looks at some of the developments on show
21 November 2012
The future for 3D printing is “not so rosy” said Todd Grimm, president of T. A. Grimm and Associates, in an iconoclastic opening keynote during this week’s TCT conference in Birmingham, the UK, in which he urged the industry to adopt a more pragmatic approach
28 September 2012
Students from Belgian technical university, Group T, have created the first race car built almost entirely from 3D-printed components. The electric-motored Areion car, which has been tested on the Hockenheim race circuit in Germany, was built using parts printed with Materialise’s Mammoth stereolithography machines.
29 August 2012
Research into innovative processing technologies was discussed at a meeting organised by the IKV plastics processing institute at the RWTH university in Aachen, Germany. European Plastics News reviews the developments
11 June 2012
Rapid prototyping specialist Objet played a crucial role at the Lego World, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, earlier this month, by demonstrating how its 3D printers are used to create Lego prototypes
20 February 2012
Dutch furniture supplier Ahrend made a revolutionary Revolt chair in 1953 designed by Friso Kramer with a U-shaped steel profile replacing solid steel or steel tubes. Its latest Ahrend 380 chair uses similar principles of simplicity, but in injection moulded plastic
16 January 2012
Gumsaver is a new design concept in oral health: a toothbrush which removes bacteria, food debris and plaque by brushing the tooth below the gum line. This helps prevent gum infection and tooth decay
16 January 2012
In mould decorating and labelling was heavily on display at the Brau Beviale 2011 fair in Nuremburg, Germany, in November, when several innovations picked up gongs at the German packaging awards
6 January 2012
German groups are making headway in developing processes to injection mould plastics with glass
6 January 2012
European Plastics News explores the work of a Dutch innovation firm People Creating Value (PCV) with Georg Fischer and other manufacturers to create plastic sealing rings
6 January 2012
Three students at Birmingham City University have won an international design competition organised by PET packaging company Petainer of the UK. The winning design is a sleek, upmarket table sauce bottle for ketchup, mayonnaise and other sauce-based condiments.
22 December 2011
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