Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing.

Shown here printing the bay door demonstrator in Fig. 2, the SCRAM cell features a scaled-down, extremely dexterous in-situ consolidated thermoplastic AFP head positioned between two fused filament ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) enables rapid prototyping, and novel manufacturing supply chains, in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and medical. Among various additive manufacturing techniques ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the industrialization of additive manufacturing. This article is more than 6 years old. Essentium, a 3-D printing firm, ...