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Piloting the Teknegoshow special edition on July 8, 2021, Thursday at 1:30 PM will be the Materials Development Laboratory. Know more about additive manufacturing services available at the DOST MATDEV on this very first episode.  Inaugurated late last year, the Materials Development Laboratory or MATDEV has started rolling out its additive manufacturing services after its introduction to the public on March 25, 2021. Riding on the wheels of novelty, MATDEV proposes an energy-efficient and waste - reducing technology.  It employs the technology of additive manufacturing (AM), which is how objects are created in 3D printing. It is called additive manufacturing because the build process adds instead of subtracts raw material.   MATDEV also undertakes research and development on materials, such as ceramics, polymers, nanomaterials, and composites for additive manufacturing abled products.  It aims to reduce the cost of raw materials by using local resources and i...

  The Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) is gathering industry, academe, government, and non-profit organizations in a stakeholders' forum to be held on March 25, 2021 , via the Zoom Meeting platform, to present MATDEV Laboratory’s current and future activities on additive manufacturing (AM). AM is the technique being used by the MATDEV Laboratory to produce models and prototypes directly from three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) without using any tools or fixtures. Funded by the DOST Grants-In-Aid Program , MATDEV Laboratory is a project under the Advanced Additive Manufacturing R&D Program. Inaugurated on December 22, 2020, the MATDEV Laboratory undertakes research and development on materials for use in additive manufactured products to reduce the cost of raw materials by using local resources. However, AM has been in use since the 1980s with Hideo Kodama of the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute inventing two AM pho...