The quest for rare wood is endangering forests. Now we can just 3D-print replicas made from wood waste instead. The most trafficked wild product in the world isn’t ivory or rhino horn, but ...

Companies can 3D print a chair or table — with no waste. They can also print complex shapes. Perhaps best of all, 3D printing could lead to a circular process for wood manufacturing.

Scientists develop new method for 3D-printing flat-pack furniture that self-assembles into complex shapes as it dries A special 'wood ink' can be 3D-printed and forms different shapes when it dries ...

Wood naturally changes shape as it dries because of the structure and orientation of its cells. The researchers took advantage of this by 3D printing with an ink made primarily of “wood flour ...

Other experiments with 3D-printed wood have included the Warp teahouse pavilion, which was made from shaped tiles by architects Kei Atsumi and Motoya Iizawa. Designblok took place from 2 to 6 ...

This intricate, lightweight "Greenaxe" electric guitar by Olaf Diegel shows off a new 3D printing technique that turns waste products like sawdust into high-strength, production-grade wood parts ...

When printed with a wood filament (which is PLA mixed with wood particles), the result looks especially good. We’ve seen a few different ways to add textures to 3D prints, including using ...

Wood is firstly milled to a fine powder and then mixed with binders like sodium silicate, cement, cellulose, gypsum, plastics, and adhesives to make a filament. These filaments are then used to 3D ...

This innovative 3D printed house is fully recyclable. Now, researchers want to scale production up in a ‘factory of the future’.

Current 3D home building technology relies on high-emissions materials such as concrete for 3D printing walls. This new model doesn’t rely on concrete, replacing it with wood components except ...