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Sustainable 3D printing of wood from its building blocks

For centuries, wood has been shaped through subtractive manufacturing—cutting, carving, and milling—processes that inevitably ...
Business Wire

Desktop Metal Develops New Additive Manufacturing Process for Volume Production of Sustainable, End-Use Wood Parts

Forust Is the World’s First Manufacturer to Use Additive Manufacturing to Upcycle Wood Byproducts for the Production of Custom and Luxury Wood Products BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM ...
ZDNet

Desktop Metal introduces Forust as a sustainable, wood waste upcycling 3D printing process, but is it really?

3D printing "wood" has been with us for quite some time. Back in 2016, I showed how plastic filament infused with wood particles could be used to create objects that had a wood-like texture, could be ...
AZOM

Regenerating Wood Waste with Additive Manufacturing

Wood waste has continued to be undervalued as a resource. Now, Desktop Metal, a leader in the metal binder jetting production market, has launched Forust, a new company that uses volume additive ...
Nature

Framework for sustainable building design and construction using off-cut wood

Irregularly shaped wood created as waste from construction is considered challenging to reuse because of its complicated geometry and a lack of well-defined design methods. Here, we propose a ...