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In my most recent post about the 2026 edition of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a biannual exhibition that constitutes the world’s largest joint maritime exercise, I focused on the...
3D printer OEM Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions, nonprofit research facility at the University of Central Florida (UCF), have expanded their 12-year collaboration to provide 3D printed prosthetic devices to children with limb differences, with a renewed focus this year on sustainability, education and wider access. As part of the expansion, Stratasys donated one of its…
Somerset Council’s Library Service has 3D scanned and printed a replica of the Ilminster Ring, a Roman gold artifact dating to 297 AD, ahead of its public unveiling at the Ilminster Roman Ring Discovery Day on Thursday 20 August. The event, organized by South West Heritage Trust and Ilminster Arts Centre, will display both the…
SYZMIK Sports has commercialized the X7C+ Protective Headband, built around what the company calls an industry-first application of 3D printed lattice padding in a flag football and 7v7 headband. Designed by COO Christopher Perra, the $77 headband carries a 5-Star impact rating from the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab and has won the Sport Equipment Design/Innovation…
Discover how robotics companies use additive manufacturing and injection molding at different stages of product development and production. The post Additive Manufacturing vs. CNC Machining in Robotics: When to Use Each appeared first on Shapeways Blog.
Prusa Research has updated its high-end desktop 3D printer lineup. The company is offering new and improved versions of the machines it targets at industrial and power users, with the...
Motorsport team Black Falcon used a 3D scanner from SHINING 3D to verify that a race car had been correctly rebuilt after suffering a serious crash during the Nürburgring 24 Hours, geometrically inspecting the repaired areas before returning the car to competition at the Nordschleife. The verification is one part of a broader technical partnership…
Shenzhen-based 3D printer maker Creality has released the SPARKX i7 Nano, a desktop 3D printer that adds four-color printing to its i7 series in a smaller form factor. The 3D printer became available August 15, bundled with a new CFS nano Kit, through the Creality US Store. The i7 Nano follows the January launch of…
The Generation Of Technical-data for High-strength Aluminium Alloy Material (GOTHAAM) project is being funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech).
The Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo is a budget-focused open-frame CoreXY 3D printer with multi-colour support through the Elegoo CANVAS system. It joins the growing Centauri family alongside the Centauri 2, Centauri Carbon and Centauri Carbon 2 models. For this overview, I’m focusing primarily on the design, features and differences between the Centauri 2 Combo and […] The post Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo Overview: Features, Design and Carbon 2 Comparison appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.
The decision to adopt amsight was driven by a need to automate the collection and generation of project information.
The 3D printing company has been working with the University of Central Florida's non-profit research facility for 12 years.
Rejoice, ye process engineers! Your raised concerns do not go in vain. Additive manufacturing (AM) materials qualification is genuinely becoming the central focal point for commercialization efforts in the industry’s...
The 3D-FiberTrain collaborative project was completed with several project partners and with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Metal additive manufacturing company 3DEO is being dismantled. On Tuesday, August 18, the remaining machinery at the company’s Torrance, California, factory went up for sale in an online auction. The...
The partners want to better establish additive manufacturing within automotive's tier 1 and 2 supply networks.
Let’s look at what matters when we make things that matter. What considerations are there, what is important, what affects cost? Look at the levers in laser powder bed fusion,...
Automated manufacturer Hadrian has raised $1.37 billion in Series D equity financing at a $7.87 billion valuation, roughly five times where the company stood a year ago. The round is aimed at expanding Hadrian’s factory network and pushing the company beyond precision parts toward delivering complete mission-critical systems for munitions, shipbuilding, and autonomous systems programs.…
South Korean additive manufacturing company LincSolution has launched a three-year international research project to develop mass-production technology for 3D printed heat pump components, targeting entry into the AI data center cooling and electric vehicle thermal management markets. The project, called “Development of Next-Generation Heat Pump Miniaturization Technology,” runs from July 2026 through June 2029 and…
Digital manufacturing service provider Protolabs has awarded a grant to support research fellows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Performance Center (IPC) as they study how leading US manufacturers scale advanced technologies into domestic production. The research will examine why breakthrough technologies developed in the US do not always end up manufactured domestically,…
Creality (HKG: 3388) is expecting to report a loss for the first half of 2026, just months after the 3D printer maker went public in Hong Kong. In a profit...
Hi3D, the all-in-one AI 3D creation platform, has launched Hi3D V3.0, the industry’s first commercially available AI 3D model with 2048³ voxel resolution. The new version is designed to dramatically...
Rocket Lab has formally established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH, creating the legal vehicle for satellite, payload and component production in Germany and for offering Electron and Neutron launch services to European customers. The entity is headquartered in Munich, where the company already operates following its acquisition of laser communications specialist Mynaric AG. The announcement is…
Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela have been granted a patent, application number 202431068691, for a portable extrusion system that converts recycled plastic waste into composite filament for FDM 3D printing, built at an estimated cost of roughly 45,000 rupees (about $470). The five-member team, drawn from the institute’s mechanical and chemical engineering…
The companies were brought together by Anzu Partners in 2025, after the venture capital firm acquired assets of both companies in separate transactions.
Initial efforts will focus on cobalt chrome, Ti-6Al-4V, and 17-4 stainless steel, with nickel-based superalloys and copper-nickel alloys planned later in the roadmap.
The first half of August brought a wave of factory plans, plant openings, and qualification work across the Asia-Pacific additive manufacturing market. Highlights include a RMB 200 million print farm...
Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) technology developer Continuous Composites, Inc. (CCI) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against three entities associated with the FibreSeek and Anisoprint brands. Filed on August 7, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, the complaint alleges infringement of ten US patents covering continuous fiber additive manufacturing.…
A live TCT webinar with Prodways Printers and Adva Cera on how process control, metrology and repeatability are moving ceramic AM into real production.
Additive manufacturing suppliers have competed on technology for most of the past two decades. Laser count, build volume, build rate, and process monitoring defined the pitch, and for a long...
Romain Kidd was MyMiniFactory‘s CEO and helped that company grow in a crowded market of people sitting between “the cloud,” communities, and 3D printing. We talk about how MyMiniFactory was...
America Makes, has announced the newly elected members of its Executive Committee for the 2026-28 term. The Executive Committee sets strategy, policy, and advocacy priorities for the organization, whose mission is to accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) and strengthen the country’s global manufacturing competitiveness. Members advise on data management and IP policy, technical scope,…
Rowan University has secured a two-year, $155,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to 3D print living models of chondrosarcoma, a bone cancer that resists both chemotherapy and radiation. Issued under award number R03CA301103, the project will use a bioprinter to deposit tumour cells and mesenchymal stem cells at measured distances inside centimetre-scale hydrogel blocks,…
An installation built from shredded PLA scrap collected from fabrication laboratories is on view at the Reeves House Visual Arts Center in Woodstock, Georgia until September 24. Ninefold: A Distributed Resonant Field comprises nine large-scale printed artifacts, each tuned as a resonant body to a specific frequency within a harmonic spectrum, producing sound from nine…
Soldiers from across Fort Bliss have completed the Advanced Manufacturing for Defense Readiness (AMDR) Certificate Program, a six-week additive manufacturing course taught by the University of Texas at El Paso that trains enlisted maintainers to design, verify and print parts for Army equipment. The certificate feeds directly into Iron Foundry, the 1st Armored Division’s advanced…
Discover how 3D-printed EOAT helps manufacturers create custom robotic tooling faster, reduce downtime, accelerate changeovers, and improve production flexibility. The post Custom EOAT with 3D Printing: A Smarter Way to Build Robotic Tooling appeared first on Shapeways Blog.
Metal powder supplier Tekna (FRA: 8VB) reported stronger financial results in the second quarter, as growing aerospace and defense demand helped its Materials business and more additive manufacturing (AM) customers...
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) is growing, but making more parts also means using more metal powder. That raises a simple question: where will all that material come from? A new...
At some point last year, I stumbled across what has been, for me, the most valuable explanation of what ‘dual-use’ means, in this War on the Rocks article from January 2025, whose...
Welcome to Printing Money Episode 41. Danny is joined for this episode by Daniel Johns. Dan has deep 3DP/AM industry experience with the likes of 3T, BEAMIT, Oerlikon, GKN, Airbus,...
The US added 5,000 manufacturing jobs in July, although in its article on the subject, Wall Street Journal notes that there are still (slightly) fewer manufacturing workers in the US...
The material has been cleared by the FDA and is compliant with ISO 20795-1.
The Shark Tank-style competition focused on distortion prediction and compensation in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF).
Hosted by the ASTM Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence, ICAM has become a forum for the technical conversations that determine how additive and advanced manufacturing technologies move from research into use.
Intrepid Automation CEO Ben Wynne on the key capabilities of Intrepid’s modular DLP technology and its focus on casting applications.
3D printing has made its way onto one of fashion’s biggest stages. Jean Paul Gaultier used additive manufacturing (AM) to help create several pieces for its Fall/Winter 2026–2027 Haute Couture...
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a new Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence has been launched in Michigan. Surgeons in Israel created a 3D printed sternum implant to help...
Digital manufacturing company Haddy has produced an uncrewed vessel designated the TF-179 Drone Boat using large-format robotic additive manufacturing. The company did not name the customer, disclose the mission profile, or publish length, displacement, propulsion or material data for the boat. That omission leaves the TF-179 itself difficult to assess on its own terms. What…
A camper van interior built almost entirely by large-format 3D printing has come in roughly 1,500 pounds (680 kg) lighter than the plywood-and-aluminum fit-out it replaces. Buckley Conversions built the prototype on a 144-inch-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz eSprinter, with founder Brandon Buckley calling it “the world’s first ever 3D printed luxury van.” The saving comes from moving…