Manufacturing innovation and 3D printing central to Nike’s growth, says CEO – 3D Marketing Conference

Mike Parker, the President and CEO of popular footwear brand Nike has revealed much of its success is down to manufacturing innovation. “At the heart of our ability to achieve long-term growth is our unrivalled ability to innovate.” He said that the company’s innovations were driven by input from consumers and top athletes as well… [read more]

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New Website Allows Sharing of Health Files for 3D-Printing

3d-print-brain-140618New Website Allows Sharing of Health Files for 3D-Printing.

People can now download, share and edit files for use in 3D printers from a new government website. The site has files that can be used to create models of anything from a human brain to deadly viruses.

The website, launched by the National Institutes of Health, is called theNIH 3D Print Exchange, and contains a library of files that a 3D printer can read and print. The files all relate to health and science; the available files include models of a human femur bone, the West Nile virus and a white matter section of the brain.