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Artec 3D, a 3D scanning hardware and software company, has released the Artec Point II, the second generation of its handheld, target-based laser scanner for industrial metrology, replacing the original Artec Point in the company’s lineup. More data per pass The new scanner uses an expanded laser setup that projects 54 lines in ultra-fast scanning…
"People say AM is too expensive or it's hard to qualify or it can't scale. We don't believe that's true."
Earlier in the year, a consortium that includes China’s BLT announced a major breakthrough in using a high-precision, liquid metal UV 3D printing process to upgrade the hinge for Chinese...
US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has approved the PBF process for 17-4PH stainless steel demonstrated by Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Keyport, located in Washington state (one of ten...
Chromatic 3D Materials has inaugurated a test firing site at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minnesota. It’s a 210 square kilometer Minnesota National Guard site used for training service members from...
The latest earnings from 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), Prodways (EPA: ALPWG), and Align Technology (Nasdaq: ALGN) show that the 3D printing market continues to move forward. Some businesses are growing...
Tom Bakker is a talented engineer who has worked in LPBF, custom machine building, and on semiconductor equipment. Now he wants to make LPBF metal printing cheap. With Metal Base,...
Industrial 3D printing firm EOS has joined MAT-H2, a consortium of ten organizations working to advance metallic materials and technologies that can withstand hydrogen environments. The consortium addresses a specific technical barrier. Hydrogen degrades metals. It embrittles them, weakens welds, and accelerates fatigue cracking. These material limitations have slowed the adoption of hydrogen in power…
South Korean motor vehicle manufacturing companies Hyundai Motor and Kia have given a detailed look inside the Additive Manufacturing Solution Center (AMSC), a facility at their shared Namyang Research and Development (R&D) Center in Hwaseong, South Korea, that consolidates polymer and metal 3D printing under a single roof. The AMSC is the first site Hyundai…
UCL Rocket (UCLR), a student-led rocketry team at University College London, has completed its first successful hot-fire test of a cryogenic regeneratively cooled rocket engine. The static test used a 7 kN liquid oxygen (LOX) and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) engine with an Eplus3D-printed CuCrZr combustion chamber containing 57 internal cooling channels. Eplus3D, a manufacturer of…
In the world of DIY and desktop 3D printing, deals and promotional campaigns run throughout the year. Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping events, but 3D printer, 3D scanner, CNC, laser, and accessory manufacturers also offer discounts around Prime Day, Back to School, Halloween, Christmas, product launches, and other seasonal events. This […] The post 3D Printer, 3D Scanner, CNC & Laser Deals 2026: Discounts and Coupons appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.
Many dynamic, interactive objects change their appearance through the use of electronics, like LEDs and screens. But if the object is squished, twisted, or pressed too hard, or exposed to...
We’re starting with business in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, then moving on to defense. We’ll move on to young 3D printing entrepreneurs, and finish with some research out...
Eplus3D has worked with UCL Rocket on liquid rocket engines. Right now, they’re working on a regenerative liquid oxygen (LOX) and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) liquid-cooled architecture. These rockets use IPA...
The latest earnings reports from Xometry (Nasdaq: XMTR), Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB), and Lincoln Electric (Nasdaq: LECO) suggest manufacturers are still spending. All three companies reported solid results, although each tells...
Other than workforce development, materials qualification is perhaps the greatest existing barrier to the scale-up of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Moreover, improving access to data on metals qualified for the...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected the winning teams for Delta Qual 2.0, a $9 million project call aimed at cutting the qualification barriers that slow additive manufacturing adoption across the U.S. defense industrial base. Three teams, led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal, Auburn University, and The…
Essentially, I used a cutting-edge stealth-mode AI tool that goes far beyond the capabilities of commercially available LLMs to conduct deep research into the desktop 3D printing filament market. I...
Philadelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan made history on July 23, 2026, becoming the first footballer to wear a fully 3D printed boot in a top-level competitive match. The 16-year-old debuted Adidas’ Project R.A.P. (Radical Athlete Perception) football boot during Philadelphia’s 3–1 MLS victory over the New York Red Bulls, wearing a pair custom-printed to the…
Specialty pharmaceutical company PharmaTher Holdings is collaborating with Craft Health Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based pharmaceutical technology company, to test whether Craft Health’s CraftMake 3D printing platform can produce personalized peptide doses. PharmaTher Holdings announced the partnership on July 29, 2026, two days after launching its Personaliz3D Peptides division. The work will focus on six peptides:…
How Boom Supersonic is using Stratasys FDM technology to cut costs and time in fixture manufacturing.
The Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA) has been contracted by Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. (BPMI) to support the development and management of a materials and process database for additive manufacturing (AM). The results are expected to be made public, a move intended to help align qualification efforts across the wider AM industry. BPMI, a prime contractor…
USA Diving has named Indianapolis-based FITASY, a maker of 3D printed custom-fit recovery footwear, as its official footwear partner. The partnership launched at the Bolzano Diving Meeting in Bolzano, Italy, on July 3, 2026, where National Team athletes and coaches wore FITASY’s Strides on the pool deck during competition. USA Diving announced the deal on…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket clearance to a 3D printed titanium cranial plate developed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, marking the first time the agency has cleared an implant produced by a point-of-care institution. The clearance, listed under submission number K253116, covers the 3D Medical Applications Center’s (3D…
Global engineering firm Renishaw has introduced LIBERTAS, a new software technology for its RenAM 500 series metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems that targets two persistent challenges in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF): rough downskin surfaces and reliance on support structures. Support structures in LPBF manage heat and distortion during a build, but they also add…
"This guide could help customers and regulators evaluate whether AM ceramic parts were designed properly based on related technical needs."
"The successful certification demonstrates that we have seamlessly maintained our high quality standards throughout the ownership transition."
Japanese companies are really good at internal diversification and spin-outs, and this seems to be true even in cases involving foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinationals. Ricoh USA recently demonstrated this...
The US additive manufacturing (AM) industry faces a turning point in terms of its approach to R&D. As has been the case for aggregate R&D in the US economy at...
The public research institution has partnered with the in-situ quality assurance technology provider in a bid to support process understanding, anomaly detection, qualification research, and hands-on education.
If you’ve been to the grocery store recently, you’ve probably noticed shrinkflation. A cereal box looks the same. The price may even be the same. But when you get home,...
Turning a digital idea into a finished full-color physical product often requires several machines, multiple software tools, manual coloring, repeated positioning, and outsourced production. For creators and small businesses, this...
The Elmet Group’s subsidiary Elmet Technologies is installing a DMP Flex 350 Triple metal 3D printer from 3D Systems to produce heat exchangers for hypersonic vehicles. According to 3D Systems, the company expects to qualify and certify the system to begin production in 2026. The deployment follows eight years of joint development between Elmet and…
Sculpteo supported the creation of five looks in the collection, with varying levels of involvement.
It comes after the successful completion of Matthäi Schlüsselfertigbau's new two-story 364 m² headquarters in Selsingen, Lower Saxony, which was enabled by COBOD's BOD2 construction 3D printer.
The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s 3-D Medical Application Center (3-D MAC) has received premarket clearance to make 3D printed medical devices. This is the first time that a...
The US Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, has become one of the US military’s most important hubs for drone R&D. At the recent Valiant...
3D printed footwear company Zellerfeld has relaunched its website and marketplace at zellerfeld.com, rolling out what the company is calling its biggest platform update since it opened its printing service to outside designers. The redesign, unveiled July 21, 2026, rebuilds how the site presents products, expands a personal fit system across the platform, and previews…
The National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Company (NAMI), a Saudi Arabian joint venture between 3D Systems, Dussur, and Saudi Energy, has been granted a Military Manufacturing License by the Kingdom’s General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI). The license places NAMI among a limited group of Saudi firms cleared to carry out regulated military manufacturing activity…
UPM Group built a fully 3D printed exhibition stand for EuroShop 2026, the retail industry’s largest international trade fair, held in Düsseldorf, Germany. The roughly 100 m² installation combined 3D printed architectural structures with custom furniture pieces, all produced additively. The stand was manufactured through a joint effort between UPM Group’s production sites in Modena,…
Berlin-based company GEFERTEC has launched arcTitan, a wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) system built specifically for titanium processing, combining a fully enclosed inert gas atmosphere with a plasma-based deposition process. The company says the system achieves stable, reproducible process control by holding oxygen levels inside the build chamber to between 10 and 15 parts per million…
More than half of the exhibition floor for MACH 2028 has already been booked as general sales opened, with organizers urging companies to secure space before the event’s early bird discount deadline. More than 13,000 square meters of stand space has been reserved nearly two years ahead of the UK manufacturing technology show, which returns…
TAAG Global and the University of Bristol Business School have announced a joint intelligence platform called the Advanced Manufacturing Observatory. Its aim is to provide manufacturers and investors with business model frameworks, commercial strategies, and market intelligence. A first major event, the TAAG Leaders Forum, is scheduled for Q4 2026 at Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise…
Italian 3D printer manufacturer Kentstrapper has launched the Mille, a large-format FDM system with a 1,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm build volume. Previewed at Mecspe 2026 in Bologna, the machine is now commercially available from €40,000 plus VAT. Each unit is made to order at Kentstrapper’s facility in Florence. The company is targeting automotive,…
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has awarded Phase3D a role in a new program aimed at proving that metal additively manufactured parts can be qualified for spaceflight during production. The program will generate more than 50,000 individually inspected build layers on a production-scale EOS M300-4 quad-laser system, creating one of the largest in-situ inspection datasets…
Plastometrex currently has multiple PLX-AutoStage modules running at its headquarters and has taken pre-orders from several customers.
SAMM Tech integrates metal additive manufacturing, polymer additive manufacturing, CNC machining, and other digital engineering tools within a patented, ruggedised, and containerised platform.
ROBOZE has supported NESST Srl with the definition of optimal 3D printing parameters during the testing phase.
Demand for metal powders made in the United States continues to grow, particularly from aerospace and defense customers. That was one of the biggest takeaways from 6K Additive‘s (ASX: 6KA)...
Jeff Graves is to step down as 3D Systems‘ CEO once a replacement has been found, the company has announced. He will then retire as CEO and as Director of...