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Kalogon has brought the Verro to market. This is a 3D printed wheelchair cushion, made with vat polymerization technology. Using a variable density lattice, it hopes to give wheelchair users...
The entry-level laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) polymer space is heating up. Whereas in metals it’s Chinese vendors offering breakthrough low-cost products, in polymer it’s HP and Formlabs enabling easier,...
Axtra3D has validated KeySplint Hard Clear, a resin from dental partner Keystone Industries, for use on its Lumia X1 3D printer. The material becomes the second Keyprint resin validated for the platform, following KeyModel Ultra earlier in 2026, and adds a rigid, clear splint and retainer material to the growing Axtra.Solutions portfolio built around the…
BigRep GmbH’s parent company BigRep SE has agreed to sell its entire stake in the operating subsidiary to three holding companies and wind down the listed entity entirely. The buyers, De Krassny GmbH, Koehler Invest GmbH, and HAGE Holding GmbH, are not outside parties. All three were already embedded in BigRep SE’s shareholder and creditor…
Airbus has qualified the Roboze ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED Mission Ready production system to manufacture flight-ready secondary structural components for telecom and Earth observation satellites using standard ULTEM 9085 filament. The approval makes Roboze the first alternative additive manufacturing ecosystem qualified by Airbus for high-performance polymer parts in these space applications. According to Roboze, this adds…
Beehive Industries, the Denver-based maker of additively manufactured jet engines for uncrewed defense systems, is investing $70 million to expand its Southwest Ohio operations, creating more than 200 new jobs. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, JobsOhio and REDI Cincinnati joined the company to announce the expansion this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK,…
New Mexico State University’s DREAM Research Center has wrapped its third summer of training K-12 educators from southern New Mexico in 3D printing, running its Additive Manufacturing Personal Development (AMPD) workshop to bring hands-on additive manufacturing skills into local classrooms. Faculty from the center worked with teachers over a multi-day hybrid session at NMSU’s Aggie…
Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft engine manufacturer owned by RTX, has completed demonstration testing of a TJ150 expendable engine in which nearly 60% of the engine by volume was produced using additive manufacturing. The company is using the technology to simplify the TJ150 design and support faster production. Announced at the Farnborough International Airshow, the…
The Spanish surface coatings subcontractor says the investment also opens the door to other markets and technologies such as additive manufacturing.
Belgium-based Safran Aero Boosters has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney to qualify and deliver large-scale, highly complex components for the F135 engine that powers the F-35 Lightning II. The deal was formalized at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 22, 2026, in the presence of Theo Francken, Belgium’s Minister of Defence, and Adrien…
After years in which the additive manufacturing (AM) industry gained a reputation for its hype outpacing its performance, an interesting development has emerged recently. In certain market segments, at least,...
Spain’s IMDEA Materials Institute has worked with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to detect and identify differences in different 3D printers. This could be important in eliminating run-to-run differences in prints and...
Kyle Bass has spent much of his career looking at big economic trends before everyone else does. The founder of Hayman Capital Management became famous for betting against the U.S....
Published in the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, a paper titled “Part scale prediction of residual stress through thermomechanical modeling of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V” seems to point to the...
The arcTitan platform combines a fully enclosed inert gas atmosphere with a plasma-based WAAM process.
Elmet expects to 'rapidly qualify and certify' the system and begin production later this year.
Founder Dr Jacob Nuechterlein will continue as Executive Chairman and occupy the role of Chief Strategy Officer.
Supermaterial applications company Lyten has been named the primary filament supplier for American aerospace and defense company Modovolo’s BFP platform, a transportable 3D printer built to manufacture aerospace, motorsports, and defense-grade parts outside traditional factory settings. The companies announced the partnership as a joint push toward a fully domestic additive manufacturing supply chain, from raw material…
Researchers at IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid, working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have developed an algorithm that detects hidden behavioral differences between supposedly identical 3D printers and automatically decides how to correct for them. The work, published in Advanced Engineering Informatics, targets a problem that grows worse as manufacturing scales: even…
GKN Aerospace has won a series of multi-year repair contracts from Pratt & Whitney covering more than 20 component types across the geared turbofan (GTF) engine family. The agreements run 5 to 10 years and distribute work across GKN facilities in Sweden, Malaysia, and the United States. The contract scope is broad, spanning engine cases,…
Additional ROBOZE materials are now moving through qualification programs for future aerospace applications.
3DEO was a parts production business that developed and applied a proprietary metal additive manufacturing process.
Last month, Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Nano Dimension signed a non-binding term sheet to merge with Infinite Epigenetics, an AI-powered preventive health and diagnostics company, in a proposed deal valued at $890 million. If completed, the transaction would mark the formal end of Nano’s decade-long presence in the additive manufacturing sector, and the beginning of…
Overall, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry has stayed impressively restrained in terms of trying to leverage any potential coattail hype from the AI boom. Perhaps the leading enterprises left standing...
Roughly 170 practitioners in robotic large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) attended the inaugural Addidex Connect event, held on June 30 and July 1, 2026 at 3D Makers Zone in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The two-day gathering was organized around robotic additive manufacturing (AM) workflows, bringing together designers, engineers, software developers, material specialists, researchers, machine builders and production…
A technique that 3D prints an entire object at once, instead of building it up layer by layer, has a heat problem. Researchers at the University of Nottingham, working with the University of California, Berkeley, say they’ve found a fix. The method in question forms a complete object in seconds by shining patterned light into…
Designer Laura Civetti wants clothing to stop being something the body simply wears and start being something it collaborates with. Her latest project, Adaptive System, is a “data-driven clothing research methodology” that folds physiological and biomechanical data, sweating, posture, skin sensitivity, curvature, sun exposure, into the design of a garment, then reproduces the result with…
In this series, we’re using cutting-edge AI research tools, including an unreleased deep research tool to look at the desktop 3D printing filament market. We’re then comparing it with our...
A decade ago, Conflux Technology was founded around a simple idea: heat exchangers might be one of the best applications for metal additive manufacturing (AM). At the time, much of...
Matthew Shomper has worked on 3D printed medical devices for many years. There, he specialized in new geometries, cutting-edge designs, designing implants, FEA optimization, approval processes, 510(k) submissions, textures, and...
The Utrecht-based filament maker Polymaker has launched HT-PLA Pro, a tougher version of its heat-stable HT-PLA filament aimed squarely at the two complaints that have followed high-temperature PLA since it first reached desktop printers: it snaps too easily, and its layers don’t always hold together under load. Polymaker says the new material more than doubles…
Indian private rocket company Skyroot Aerospace‘s Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18 powered in part by a cluster of 3D printed engines, a detail that turns India’s first private orbital launch into a milestone for additive manufacturing as much as for spaceflight. The rocket’s fourth stage, a liquid-propellant Orbital Adjustment Module, ran on Raman-1 engines…
The Advanced Technologies in Design and 3D Printing Unit (UTADI 3D) at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid has become the first public unit in Spain to hold a dual manufacturing license and dual certification, one for design, one for manufacturing, for each family of custom medical devices. The recognition follows an expansion of…
Bambu Lab is expanding the role of MakerWorld, its community platform for 3D printable models. The company has partnered with camera maker Insta360 to launch the Luna Ultra Design Challenge,...
We’re starting with material distribution news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then on to outer space. We’ll end with a story about an ancient board game. Read...
HT-PLA Pro has been developed to address the ‘key limitations of conventional high-temperature PLA,’ such as brittleness and lower layer adhesion.
GKN Aerospace and RTX unit Pratt & Whitney will collaborate on additive manufacturing for the F135 engine. This is an important engine. The turbofan powers the F-35 Lightning II, but...
For years, co-founders Paul Sieradzki and Petra Wood ran a 3D printing service bureau in New York. As they worked day to day with the printers, they experienced firsthand the...
Lithoz says that its materials revenue has risen 40% year on year. This is a good sign pointing towards higher utilization and production volumes by its customers. Service bureaus and...
Sculpteo deploys MJF technology to produce water surface cleaning robot components.
For years, thermoplastics have been the workhorse of additive manufacturing (AM). They are pretty easy to process, available, and compatible with many of today’s industrial 3D printers. From prototypes to...
Additive Assurance has has signed a distribution agreement with NTT DATA XAM Technologies Corp. (XAM) to launch its real-time quality assurance solution, AMiRIS, in the Japanese market. The Australian company, which develops quality assurance products for metal powder bed fusion, says it has selected XAM to bring its AMiRIS
A generative AI platform focused on 3D content Meshy has closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, labeled as the largest round raised by a company built specifically for AI 3D generation and the company’s first publicly disclosed valuation. The round drew participation from every existing investor alongside new…
Miami-based Kind Designs, which 3D prints concrete seawalls designed to function as marine habitat, has closed a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, doubling a round it originally set at $5 million after investor interest reached nearly $20 million. The company has now raised $21.5 million in total. NBA forward Kyle Kuzma…
Hexagon‘s Portable Metrology Division has introduced a reverse engineering workflow for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) teams that connects its ATLASCAN Pro handheld 3D scanner directly to Geomagic Design X software. The company says the combination lets engineers rebuild a CAD model up to eight times faster than with mainstream CAD tools, addressing a common…
Florida-based medical seating company Kalogon has launched Verro, a Medicare-coded custom wheelchair cushion line for people with significant postural support needs, including windswept posture, pelvic obliquity, or asymmetry. The line addresses a gap seating specialists have identified: while multi-density and contoured cushions exist, they lack the precise, body-conforming fit needed by wheelchair users with the…
If you’ve ever tried to produce a full-color figurine or a one-off branded product on a desktop 3D printer, you already know the routine. You print in a single color, then spend hours hand-painting, curing, sealing, and hoping the finish doesn’t look like a craft project. Most desktop 3D printers produce stunning geometry, but color…
In 2024, RIC Robotics, the additive construction (AC) firm based in Denver, completed the build of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Walnut, California, which was apparently an industry first....
Leading industry analyst firm Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research or AMR) has been providing market reports for the 3D printing/AM sector since 2013. It recently published the “Q1 2026 3DP/AM...
HeyGears has officially launched the G1 Series on Kickstarter. The world’s first Desktop Full-Color 3D & UV Printer, the G1 Series combines full-color 3D printing, 3D-textured UV printing, and 2D...