Light Building 2022 Autumn Edition: Business is Between People in a Digital Age Electrification and digitalization offer enormous potential for saving around 40 percent of energy in the building sector. At the Light Building 2022 Autumn Edition in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, solutions were presented by over 1,500 exhibitors from 46 countries. The [...]
Photonics Days 2022: Enabling Photonics Photonics Days 2022 Berlin/Brandenburg is organized as an in-presence event including, seven one-day workshops, two half-day workshops, an exhibition and plentiful networking opportunities. As a bonus and especially for the international guests, there are opportunities to tour Fraunhofer IZM the Tuesday before the conference and visit the Tech Park Adlershof [...]
Kunststoffenbeurs 2022: Future Proof Plastics The Kunststoffenbeurs 2022, running on September 14 + 15 in De Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, is the central place where the Benelux plastics and rubber chain shares current knowledge, makes its efforts and innovative strength visible and meets annually. It is also the place used by people that work together as [...]
Printoptical.Art: A Blend of Optical 3D Printing - Advanced Lighting Technologies and Interactive Art Luximprint Printoptical Technology has been widely adopted over the last decade for the rapid prototyping of custom optics. The controlled deposition of optical material, as well as the optical smoothness achieved directly from the 3D printer, offers great advances for the [...]
3D Production Days 2022 3D production techniques are here to stay. The 3D Production Days 2022, held on June 22+23, 2022 in 'Klokgebouw Eindhoven', provide a complete overview of the entire 3D value chain: from Definition to Design, and from to Prototyping to Production. During the 3D Production Days, four Mikrocentrum events will join forces [...]
Additive Optics Manufacturing of Micro and Nanoscale Components Additive manufacturing methodologies have shown promising results in the fabrication of high-performance optics. The evolving capabilities of the various additive optics fabrication approaches lead to unique features and performance for the devices and systems these components apply to. The exact capability of this exciting 3D Printing technology [...]
Investigation of Diffractive Structure Designs through Printoptical® Technology Abstract A next research has been recently published on realizing diffractive optics structures for various application areas such as in reality displays, integrated circuits and illumination. The current advancement in additive manufacturing allows rapid prototyping of diffractive structures at low cost within short time and little material [...]
Frosted Finishes: Optically smooth and defined Roughness in one single Additive Manufacturing Process WEMELDINGE, NETHERLANDS – NOVEMBER, 2021 – Luximprint, a global leader in offering rapid prototyping services for custom optics and Optographix, based in The Netherlands is delighted to announce the availability of its refined ‘Frosted Finish’ capabilities for application with large-format 3D [...]
3D Printing Speeds Up Optics Manufacturing Whereas the traditional manufacture of optical components was carried out mainly through conventional milling technologies, today's novel 3D printing methods have significantly increased the speed and flexibility of the overall making process. By adding successive layers of a UV or thermally-cured resin until a given shape is complete, developers [...]
3D Printing Trends in the Plastics Industry 3D printing is set to create a difference in our world for multiple reasons. Els van de Ven, Event Manager at Mikrocentrum, speaks out at the starting eve of the Kunststoffenbeurs about sustainability and circularity. Those, among other themes, will be among the highlights during the plastics event [...]
