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AMUG honours inventor of High Speed Sintering with its 2027 Innovators Award

The Additive Manufacturing Users Group has named Neil Hopkinson of Stratasys as winner of its 2027 Innovators Award. Hopkinson invented High Speed Sintering, which replaced the laser in polymer powder bed fusion with printheads and infrared energy. He will be interviewed on the AMUG main stage on 17 March 2027 in Atlantic City.

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Xaar to show inkjet printheads for additive manufacturing at IPI in Neuss

Printhead maker Xaar will present inkjet developments at Industrial Print Integration (IPI) 2026 in Neuss on 24 and 25 November. The focus is on precise dosing of functional fluids, handling of high-viscosity materials and linking inkjet technology with additive manufacturing processes. The announcement points to controlled droplet formation as a core technical challenge of inkjet.

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