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Quebec customer Jewish General Hospital increases 3D printing capacity to help fight COVID-19

Jewish General Hospital

At Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, increasing additive manufacturing capacity recently became an urgent need. As the main site for COVID-19 patients in the Montreal area, hospital staff recognized the need for more in-house production of protective face shields and ventilator components. Supported by donor Dr. Sharon Azrieli, recent purchases from Javelin include two Stratasys Fortus…

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UVic Submarine Racing Club at eISR: Final Recap

UVic team with submarine racing club

The races are over and the tallies are in! Javelin is a proud sponsor of the University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club and we are thrilled to announce the results of their most recent race. The UVic Submarine Racing Club blew their competition out of the water, coming in 4th overall in this years European…

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UVic Submarine Racing Club Full Speed Ahead at eISR!

Figure 1 - Chinook, the UVSRC's Flagship Submarine

The European International Submarine Races are well underway and the UVic Submarine Racing Club is already making big waves. They were the 2nd out of 12 teams to arrive on site and were the 1st team to successfully complete underwater wet testing of all systems and safety inspections. Their hard work is already starting to pay off!…

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University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club – Getting Closer to Race Day!

uVIC Hull design sanding

As introduced in a previous blog post, Javelin’s Additive Solutions team is a proud Silver Sponsor of the University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club (UVSRC), providing them with funding to help develop their submarine. The UVSRC is run by students from both UVic and Camosun College. The UVSRC has been hard at work over the last several months building…

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Javelin Technologies named one of the fastest growing companies in Canada for second year in a row

Javelin’s co-managing director says customer successes continue to drive growth Canadian Business and PROFIT have named Javelin Technologies, specialists in 3D design and 3D printing, as one of the Fastest-Growing Information Technology Companies on the PROFIT 500 list. Published in the October issue of Maclean’s magazine and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian businesses by their five-year revenue…

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Dalhousie engineering students use SOLIDWORKS to redesign parathlete’s throwing chair

Pam Lejean at Javelin

When an instructor at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University mentioned to the Javelin team that he was looking for real life design projects for his first-year engineering students, they had the perfect suggestion. Pam LeJean, one of Javelin Technologies’ sponsored athletes, is among the best track and field parathletes in the world, but does long for…

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Canadian SOLIDWORKS Support as important as software for Javelin customer CT Logics

David using SOLIDWORKS

Downtime is detrimental to any operation, and that’s especially true when a small team is responsible for a big job. At CT Logics Inc., an oilfield equipment manufacturer based in Edmonton, Alberta, a handful of engineers designs custom coiled tubing equipment for both land and offshore drilling applications. There’s nothing off the shelf at CTL…

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DriveWorks-based SmartQuote system helps Thordon Bearings manage international dealer network

Thordon Bearings Thorplas Blue bearings

On the Thordon Bearings website, you’ll find a cool widget that keeps track of the volume of oil discharges the company’s products have prevented to date. That number today? More than 62 million litres. Their business is bearings – designing and manufacturing large-scale bearing systems and seals for industries such as ship building and hydro-electric…

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SOLIDWORKS tools help Canadian Aeryon Labs designers optimize and customize world-leading drones

Aeryon Labs Sky Ranger

Ask Glen Johannesson to tell you the coolest part of his job and he laughs and says, “It’s all cool. I make flying robots.” Glen is Mechanical Architect for Aeryon Labs and a mechanical engineer. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Aeryon design Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for a range of applications around the world. Aeryon had…

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