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Moisture remains one of the leading causes of failed FDM prints, wasted filament, and nozzle clogs, yet the standard remedies haven’t moved much in years. Heated dryer boxes work but demand a constant cycle of drying, printing, and resealing that breaks down at any real volume, and they risk deforming temperature-sensitive materials over extended use. …
It represents Quickparts' second major capacity investment in 18 months as the company works to enhance its additive manufacturing capability and service to the aerospace and defence sectors.
Additive Willmann expects the software to strengthen traceability and reduce manual effort, while increasing customer confidence in AM technology and AM services.
The program will focus on embedding electrical conductors directly within composite structures to enable load-bearing components that also serve as integrated power distribution systems.
Despite its industrial might and precision engineering excellence, Japan has been rather aloof to 3D printing over the past decades. Despite an early start by companies such as Teijin Seiki...
6K Additive (ASX: 6KA) grew rapidly in the first half of 2026 as demand for its metal powders increased, particularly from aerospace and defense customers. The newly public company also...
According to the Pentagon, “We will not defeat our adversaries with compliance checklists; we will defeat them by rapidly fielding superior capabilities produced by an expanded, resilient American industrial base.”...
Ruben Wauthle studied at Leuven University at a very serendipitous time. Through working with pioneering additive professors and surgeons, he entered into a specialty that was emerging. He joined pioneering...
In Hall 15 at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026, consumer 3D printing was everywhere, from toys, figurines, and character models to thousand-machine production farms. Green-laser companies displayed copper cold plates for...
TCT takes a tour of Aectual's Amsterdam R&D lab and learns how it is using 3D printing to reimagine the built environment.
Let's just get one thing out of the way – additive manufacturing is expensive, okay? Stick a 3D printed part side-by-side with a machined or injection moulded part and it's unlikely going to emerge victorious when it comes to cost. There are exceptions, of
Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) researchers detail the development of a new high-temperature, 3D-printable aluminium alloy.
TCT visits the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre North West to find out how it's accelerating UK adoption of additive manufacturing.
Resource optimisation, climate risk assessments, and ESG forums.
PanOptimization founders Pan Michaleris and Erik Denlinger on the dynamic between simulation and physical testing, and why the company has opted against raising venture capital funds.
The CEO shares the company plans to scale with its proprietary 12-laser AM system.
The UK's 3D printing research machine is impressive on paper but riddled with overlap writes our latest Anonymous Columnist.
BMW Group’s Head of Additive Manufacturing Timo Göbel talks WAAM and what’s next.
Laura Griffiths learns how Beehive Industries is rapidly scaling towards unprecedented production volumes for aerospace propulsion systems.
As LightForce Orthodontics launches its LightBracket Metal teeth-straightening product, Dr Chris Jackson and James Lawton tell Sam Davies why AM is pivotal to their manufacturing processes.
Materialise CEO talks transforming healthcare, openness, and rejecting the hype around the industry it helped build.
As contract manufacturers continue to develop proprietary laser-based powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) systems rather than procure them from the market, Shane Collins, Tech Fellow, Metal AM at Wohlers Associates, explores the technical and economic motivations.
"The inspiration that 3D printing can provide is this industry’s greatest recruitment and retainment tool."
How Avio Aero established itself as an additive manufacturing leader.
I’ve seen 3D printed guitars before; my favorite is Olaf Diegel’s Xenomorph guitar. I’ve even seen a 3D printed ukulele and some 3D printed violins. This is the first time...
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, America Makes announced the winner of its GOTHAAM Project Call. Then it’s all about healthcare 3D printing news, with Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and A.J. Tuck Company have developed a hybrid manufacturing process, combining 3D printing, electroforming and hot isostatic pressing, that produces leak-free containers used to build critical components for advanced nuclear reactors, cutting a step out of a supply chain that has long depended on forging capacity concentrated outside the United States.…
The U.S. Navy released new technical requirements Aug. 11 designed to rapidly scale metallic 3D printing across the submarine enterprise, stripping away administrative and engineering hurdles that have slowed the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in submarine construction, maintenance and repair. A New Pathway to Replace Legacy Parts The newly approved Project Peculiar Document (PPD)…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced a new collaboration to expand the domestic supply chain for industrial pressure vessels using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), a move aimed at accelerating the qualification of critical nuclear components as the U.S. races to scale up its nuclear energy portfolio. The partnership was…
Minneapolis-based company Chromatic 3D Materials has established a rocket propellant test-firing capability at Camp Ripley, a 53,000-acre Minnesota National Guard training facility near Little Falls, under a five-year lease agreement that took effect June 1. The company says the site gives it a closed-loop environment, a propellant print lab paired directly with on-site test-firing infrastructure,…
Italian rider Francesco Furlani has completed over 4,500-kilometer journey from Italy to Nordkapp, Norway’s North Cape, driving a three-wheeled Piaggio Ape TM 703 fitted with a camper body built entirely through large-format 3D printing. The shell weighs around 70 kilograms, compared with roughly 200 kilograms for a comparable fiberglass structure, a 130-kilogram difference that determined…
The American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) announced the launch of the Horizon Manufacturing Cup, a fast-pitch competition that will award $3 million in non-dilutive funding, including a $1 million grand prize, to five manufacturing startups. The one-day event will be held Oct. 20, 2026, on Indiana University‘s campus in Bloomington, Indiana, and will…
Researchers at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale have developed a method to convert plastic and agricultural waste into edible food using genetically programmed yeasts, with the resulting material extruded through a 3D printer into protein-rich cookies. The team, funded through NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, presented the work during the “Undergraduate and Graduate Research in…
Aerospace and defense manufacturer Ursa Major has announced to go public through a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. III (Nasdaq: BCCQU), a special purpose acquisition company backed by Inflection Point Asset Management. Following the transaction, the combined company will be renamed Inflection Point Mach X Bleichroeder Corp. and is expected to trade on Nasdaq…
Additive manufacturing (AM) company Arc Impact is promoting Digital Casting Services, a workflow that pairs simulation with 3D printed sand molds and cores to help defense and government programs manufacture complex castings with fewer failed pours. The company positions the offering as a way to recover obsolete or hard-to-source parts and bring idle equipment back…
A US joint-branch effort deployed a SPEE3D cold spray metal printing system aboard the Canadian support vessel MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, marking the first at-sea use of the technology. The exercise examined whether mission-critical replacement parts could be manufactured at the point of need rather than sourced through a conventional supply chain. The work…
Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand, and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment...
Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force...
The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine ASCC) is partnering with Maine nonprofit Penquis to produce up to nine 3D printed homes in the Greater Bangor area, marking the university’s first move from a single demonstration house toward a repeatable housing manufacturing system. The project, announced August 26, 2026, comes four years…
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have developed a new approach to finger and hand prosthetics that integrates four previously separate disciplines, hybrid materials, bioprinting, smart sensors and mechanical design, into a single customizable device. The work, led by a team of researchers across RIT’s Rochester and Dubai campuses, was published in the Journal…
Big brands pull away from 3D printing, AM users raise tens of millions in venture capital, and AM's public companies report their financial performance for Q2 2026.
Czinger Vehicles has unveiled the 21C Spyder, an open-top variant of its 21C hypercar built with heavier use of 3D printing than any previous version. Priced from $2.75 million and limited to 30 units, the Spyder is 23% additively manufactured by Czinger’s count, using processes developed by Divergent Technologies. Each unit is hand-assembled at Area…
Maintenance and interiors aircraft giant Lufthansa Technik is exploring 3D printing at greater depths, hoping to take its customers to the heights they’re accustomed to. A team at Lufthansa Technik...
A research team from Hannover Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Technical University Darmstadt and the University of Twente has developed an additive manufacturing-based design framework for artificial lungs that uses triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes in place of conventional hollow fiber bundles. Published in Advanced Materials, the study combines simulations, printable silicone materials and…
Creality (HKG: 3388) sold more products in the first half of 2026, but lower margins and higher spending pushed the consumer 3D printing company into the red. At the same...
Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) is using Markforged Onyx GF to produce color-coded tooling for its multi-model automotive production operations. The material is being used to make variant-specific jigs easier for operators to identify while providing greater durability than previously used ABS parts. SIA runs multiple vehicle models simultaneously, creating situations where similar tools may…
“This approach could make it easier to produce these components in the U.S., reducing supply chain challenges for advanced nuclear energy systems.”
If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a...
We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more...
One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need...