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• 3D Systems DMP Flex 350 Dual delivers speed, flexibility to enable increased options for WeAreAM and Gruppo Grazioli customers
  ROCK HILL, S.C., Jan. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced that WeAreAM , a digital and metal additive manufacturing company located in Brescia, Lombardia, Italy, has added 3D Systems’ DMP Flex 350 Dual to its new Center of Excellence.
• The DMP Flex 350 Dual enables flexible application use and quick-swap build modules, and a central server to manage print jobs, materials, settings, and maintenance for 24/7 productivity.
• This single software solution for modeling, simulation, and manufacturing eliminates the need to rely on multiple software packages.
• “Our DMP Flex 350 Dual is renowned as a high throughput, high repeatability metal 3D printer that is capable of producing high-quality parts in a broad range of alloys.

• Argon & Co, the global management consultancy that specialises in operations strategy and transformation, is delighted to announce its change in UK leadership.
• After two decades, Richard Powell has handed over the leadership of the UK business to Ben Wright.
• Richard Powell, a founding partner of the business, said, "After an incredible 20-year journey as the co-founder and Managing Partner of Argon & Co in the UK, I am delighted to announce this change in leadership.
• He brings with him a wealth of business management and people leadership experience, good relations across the Argon & Co global community and strong links into a number of key client accounts.

• PLANO, Texas, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Argon Medical Devices, a leading provider of device solutions for Interventional Radiology, Vascular Surgery, Interventional Cardiology, and Oncology, announced the launch of the Kodiak™ Dual Port Coaxial Introducer Kit for precise and streamlined introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic devices into the vasculature.
• The Kodiak Dual Port Coaxial Introducer Kit is engineered for versatility, as it applies to various vascular procedures.
• In doing so, Kodiak can simplify complex procedures where the rigor of the procedures demands a robust device to provide treatment efficiently.
• "The Kodiak Dual Port Coaxial Introducer Kit offers unmatched versatility and robustness, applicable to a variety of complex endovascular procedures that require simultaneous introduction of multiple components into the vasculature.

• Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or trigger a medical breakthrough much like penicillin did.
• We needed nuclear fusion (firing atoms at each other at the speed of light) to make the last handful of elements.
• But to understand the full scale of the chemical universe, you need to understand chemical compounds too.
• So, how many chemical compounds can we make with the 118 different sorts of element Lego blocks we currently know?

Big numbers

• There are lots of these: N2 (nitrogen) and O2 (oxygen) together make up 99% of our air.
• It would probably take a chemist about a year to make one compound and there are 6,903 two-atom compounds in theory.
• So that’s a village of chemists working a year just to make every possible two-atom compound.
• And to make all these chemical compounds, we’d also need to recycle all the materials in the universe several times over.

Surely not all those compounds are possible?

• It’s true there are rules – but they are kind of bendy, which creates more possibilities for chemical compounds.
• Even the solitary “noble gases” (including neon, argon and xenon and helium), which tend to not bind with anything, sometimes form compounds.
• So, if you include extreme environments in your calculations, the number of possible compounds increases.

How scientists search for new compounds

• Often the answer is to search for compounds that are related to ones that are already known.
• The X-ray technique that Crowfoot Hodgkin invented on her way to identifying penicillin’s structure is still used worldwide to study compounds.
• And the same MRI technique that hospitals use to diagnose disease can also be used on chemical compounds to work out their structure.
• For many useful compounds, like penicillin, it’s easier and cheaper to “grow” and extract them from moulds, plants or insects.
• Thus the scientists searching for new chemistry still often look for inspiration in the tiniest corners of the world around us.