The strategic deal gives Micelli access to toolmaking and injection molding capabilities for its confections business while Aztec will gain engineering resources, extended design and prototyping capabilities.
The acquisition of Collider and its Orchid printer technology by industrial 3D-printing company Essentium, and University of North Florida (UNF) professor Steve Stagon’s patent for a 3D-printed mold raise the bar in the quest to reduce or eliminate costly tooling while producing optimally performing parts in greater volumes. In acquiring Collider’s technology — which prints a thin, dissolvable photopolymer shell and fills it with a traditional thermosetting polymer, all in the…
Roberta is your employee. She is a single mother of three and lives with her mom and sister’s family. She drives to work, and recently her car broke down. Roberta doesn’t have the money or the resources to call a tow truck or get the repairs done. This means Roberta couldn’t take her three children to preschool, kindergarten, and middle school. By the time she found rides for them, she…