Tesla’s Model S is the first zero-emission, zero-gas, full-size electric vehicle on the market. In addition, Tesla will produce battery packs, electric motors, and other powertrain components that will power all-electric, plug-in vehicles (not only Tesla’s, but also other vehicle manufacturers, such as Daimler and Toyota).
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Metal Technology (MTI) has successfully 3D printed coupons in a key alloy required for space travel. C-103 is a niobium based alloy containing approximately 10% Hafnium and 1% Titanium. It is widely used in space applications because of its excellent formability, cost, weight, and reliability.
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 (Reuters) – The prospect of huge time savings, less waste and more design options have drawn aerospace firms to invest in additive layer manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, though it may be years before parts made this way are common in planes and weapons.
Read more at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/airshow-britain-3dprinting-idUSL6N0PS4TV20140717
General Electric Co. will spend $50 million on developing a high-volume 3-D printing plant in Alabama as the world’s biggest maker of jet engines seeks alternatives to milled metal for its newest power-plant.
The project, announced today with Alabama Governor Robert Bentley at the Farnborough Air Show in England, builds on GE’s efforts to make 3-D printers a fixture on assembly lines rather than just tools to create plastic prototypes.
Read more at: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-15/ge-to-develop-high-volume-3-d-printer-plant-for-jet-engine-parts
BANGALORE: A bunch of 3D printing patents expiring this year are likely to open up op portunities for Indian entrepreneurs to build more efficient, high quality printers that can even build objects in metal at a much lower cost.
Grace Choi is a 30-year-old serial inventor who is taking on the $55 billion makeup industry by giving women the power to have what they want, when they want it. Picture this: you snap a photo of a tropical purple flower and in less than two minutes you can print a lipstick in that exact color. And you’ll do it at home with Mink, your personal 3D printer.
You don’t need to know how to code, you don’t need to understand 3D printing and you don’t need a boatload of money.
With plans to 3-D print 45,000 fuel nozzles a year for its upcoming Leap jet engine, General Electric’s ambitions for the printing technology have been received with much fanfare. After all, the manufacturing giant is pioneering the use of 3-D metal printing for highly complicated, mission-critical manufacturing applications, and it’s proving to the world that 3-D printing could be a game-changing technology for such specialized applications. General Electric has undoubtedly become the 800-pound gorilla in the room of the 3-D printing industry, which only generated about $3 billion in revenue last year. And because GE’s 3-D printing plans are so monstrous for such a small industry, the company can exert its influence over 3-D printing companies and play by its own rules.
Read more at: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/30/what-3-d-printing-companies-dont-want-you-to-know.aspx
General Electric apparently never got the memo on 3-D printing’s supposed shortcomings, because the company has been busy proving that 3-D printing is an extremely capable technology, well suited for mission-critical and highly complex manufacturing applications. By challenging the conventional wisdom that 3-D printing is primarily a prototyping process, GE has put itself many years ahead of its closest competitors in terms of 3-D printing manufacturing expertise. And because 3-D printing has the ability to create fundamentally better products, GE has the potential to gain a considerable competitive advantage in the coming years.
Read more at: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/28/how-general-electric-company-challenges-convention.aspx
Analysts are divided on how long the rally will run. Nickel for three-month delivery at the London Metal Exchange rose to $21,000 a ton May 13, the highest since February 2012, and was trading at $19,000 at 9:25 a.m. While Goldman Sachs Group Inc. sees prices dropping in the next 12 months as the Chinese build up processing capacity in Indonesia to skirt around the ban, Macquarie forecasts rising prices for years.
“The Indonesian ore export ban is a game-changer,” both for the nickel markets and for asset disposal, Jeffrey Largey, an analyst at Macquarie in London, said in a phone interview. “We have a very compelling price profile, it ramps pretty aggressively. That’s mainly because we start to see a meaningful structural deficit emerging in the commodity.”
Read more at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-04/nickel-gain-enables-bhp-to-anglo-to-sell-mines-real-m-a.html
MONTREAL — Royal Nickel Corp., developer of the Dumont high-grade nickel property in Northwestern Quebec, said Monday it plans to buy 56 per cent of True North Nickel Inc., owner of the West Raglan nickel deposit further north in the remote Ungava region.
West Raglan lies 40 kilometres west of Glencore Xstrata’s existing Raglan (sulphide) nickel mine and near the Chinese-owned Jilin Jien Nickel Industry Co.’s Nunavik (former Canadian Royalties Inc.) mine that started producing earlier this year.
Read more at: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Royal+Nickel+stake+owner+West+Raglan+deposit/9900837/story.html
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