France - As sport shoe manufacturers look for ways to accelerate new product launches and to create more versatile footwear to provide enhanced performance for their customers, Prodways Group 3D-printing solutions have opened up new horizons for the industrial production of 3D-printed footwear.

The 3D printing company Stratasys offers an innovative multi-cell additive manufacturing platform. The approach is designed for continuous production combined with mass customisation. The automated process promises minor operator intervention.

The Purmundus Challenge is looking for smart 3D printing technology: At the next Formenxt powered by tct exhibition, the winners of the Purmundus challenge will be announced.

Germany – GOM will be showcasing the optical desktop scanner Atos Scan-Port at Formnext 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Germany - Formnext 2015 attracted 8.982 visitors, 42% came from outside Germany, organiser Mesago announced. The atmosphere in Frankfurt's Hall 3.1 was good, the show was very professional and exhibitors were busy. The topic of additive manufacturing (AM) - and specifically the question how the full-scale industrialisation of AM can be achieved in a rapid and cost-effective manner - dominated the showground. Tool and mould makers were there, but organiser Mesago didn't deliver the amount of exhibitors coming from the tool, die and mould making sector as one would expect from an "international exhibition on AM and toolmaking".

Combining one company’s longstanding reputation in mould making with another’s pioneering expertise in 3D printing has resulted in an innovative system that offers mould-makers flexibility to quickly produce and switch inserts.

Netherlands – The winners of the first Plastics Recycling Awards Europe has just been announced.

Surface finishing specialist Joke Technology has announced that its new catalogue is now also available in Dutch. It also has a three-man team to take care of the Dutch market.

With vivid colours for the Stratasys J750 3D printer, Audi hopes to quickly produce transparent, mulit-coloured parts meeting texture and colour-matching requirements of its stringent design approval process.

When joining metals together, the usual method is welding. This, however, leads to changes in their structure as well as their appearance. Researchers have now developed an alternative that is able to join aluminium alloys with each other and with polymers.