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Metal 3D printing company Fabric8Labs raises $19M

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The San Diego-based startup specializes in metal 3D printing. Desktop Metal going public in SPAC-led deal that could value 3D printer company at $2.5B. Scalability is always one of the biggest question marks around any kind of additive manufacturing. Herman says 3D printing for manufacturing is firmly in Fabric8Labs’ sights.

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Mooji is 3D printing plant-based meat

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million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. On the other hand, there’s cheaper technologies such as traditional extrusion, electrospinning and so on, which is really cheap, affordable and scalable. Turns out the Baltimore-based firm got all that and more.

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Markforged acquires Digital Metal for $40M as 3D printing space continues to evolve

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“The Digital Metal team has created a robust and scalable solution that complements our existing technologies. The industrial 3D printing space has seen a number of interesting evolutions recently, as companies are starting a consolidation phase. I look forward to welcoming their talented people to Markforged.”

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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

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These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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Here’s Y Combinator’s answer to cultivated meat’s scaling problem

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Rather than launching brands, these are B2B alternative protein companies developing scalable industrial production platforms. Mooji Meats: Speedy 3D printing whole cuts. The company has developed a 3D printer capable of producing whole cuts of meat using plant protein or cultured meat cells. million seed round.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 28th, 2020

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I ate up this 3D representation of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Here's a recent authentic unfaked review: Number Stuff: Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually. consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.