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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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around…
Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has launched Hi3D V3.0, an AI 3D generation model the company describes as the first commercially available version to reach 2048³ voxel resolution. The update centers on three areas: geometric detail, structural accuracy, and texture output. Finer Detail and Structural Accuracy At…
Fitting a motor and battery into a robot shrinks fast as the robot gets smaller, and at microgram scales it becomes close to impossible. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have proposed a way around that limit: powering small robots with sound instead of onboard mechanical components, opening a path…
Boston headquartered shoe company Reebok has reworked a 1990s sneaker using 3D printing, teaming up with former NBA player Allen Iverson and 3D printing footwear company Zellerfeld. The original shoe, called The Question, launched in 1996 and referenced Iverson’s nickname “The Answer.” It became a streetwear favorite following his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers,…
Copenhagen-based ATLANT 3D has launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a platform the company describes as the world’s first and only physical system linking AI-driven materials discovery to atomic-scale fabrication, experimental validation, and device prototyping. The launch addresses a gap the company has identified in materials research: AI models can now predict promising new materials, but testing whether…
Chicago-based 3D printing quality assurance software developer Phase3D has received a contract award from the Department of the Air Force to extend its Fringe Inspection platform, a real-time, in-situ inspection system for metal additive manufacturing (AM), into ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). The Phase I effort will fund development work supporting propulsion, hypersonic, and thermal-protection programs…
Continuum Powders, a metal powder producer for additive manufacturing (AM), and Mastrex, which builds laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems, have partnered to test, tune processing parameters, and validate Continuum’s powders on Mastrex’s MX series machines. The goal of this partnership is to shorten the path from choosing a powder to running it reliably on…
A team at BITS Pilani’s K.K. Birla Goa Campus has developed a 3D printable hydrogel from pharmaceutical-grade polymers and used it to print both skin tissue scaffolds and customized chewable drug tablets. Published in the Journal of Biological Engineering, the hydrogel combines three ingredients already used in drug manufacturing. Starch 1500 (a modified maize starch…
America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead a $5.5 million program developing material allowables for a scandium-aluminum alloy across three classes of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printers. Funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech), the program is called Generation Of…
AM North, a Norwegian additive manufacturing company, has adopted amsight‘s production-level quality management software, cutting documentation work per project from roughly eight hours to 1.5–2 hours, according to Quality Magazine. The move addresses a scaling problem in AM North’s certified production process, where quality evidence had been compiled manually across Excel, Word, PDFs and paper…
Dutch 3D concrete printing company Vertico has completed its largest installation to date, deploying a full two-component (2K) printing system at the facility of Portuguese precast manufacturer Sirolis – Prefabricados de Betão, S.A. The system pairs a 3.2-meter extended ABB robot arm with a 6.7-meter track and raised carriage, mounted directly on top of a…
Formnext Asia Shenzhen will open on 26 August 2026 as its biggest edition to date, spanning 20,000 sq.m. of Hall 15 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center and hosting 330 exhibitors over three days. Pre-registration data released ahead of the show points to strong momentum with international visitor sign-ups climbing over 50% compared…
Bosch‘s manufacturing consulting arm Bosch Industry Consulting and German metal 3D printer manufacturer Nikon SLM Solutions have produced a complete V8 engine block as a single 3D printed piece in aluminum, using the NXG XII 600 metal additive manufacturing system at the Bosch Additive Solution Center in Nuremberg, Germany. The block was built in AlSi10Mg,…
HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering (HVE) and its research partners have completed a 34-month project developing a tool-free, fully recyclable manufacturing process for large-format heavy-duty rail vehicle components. The team validated the technology by producing two demonstrator parts for Siemens Mobility‘s ICE 3neo (Velaro MultiSystem, Class 408) high-speed train: its nose section and front skirt. The “3D-FiberTrain”…
Internationally licensed maintenance, production and development organization Lufthansa Technik has replaced a damage-prone polymer latch on Airbus A330, A340, and A380 roller shutter assemblies with a redesigned titanium version, produced through metal 3D printing by Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise. The new Ti-6Al-4V latch is manufactured under EN 9100 certification and is now flying on…
How many engineering decisions have been delayed by three to five business days because a functional prototype was sitting in a service bureau’s queue? It’s something nobody tracks formally, but anyone who has outsourced industrial 3D printing knows the arithmetic. You finalize a design on Tuesday, and by the time you’re holding a functional part,…
Supplier of professional SLA and SLS 3D printing systems Formlabs has appointed Dan Riccio, Apple‘s former Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, as a strategic advisor and investor. The announcement came with a wider reshuffle of the board, including a new chairman, a new president and the departure of co-founder Natan Linder after fifteen years.…
The Advanced Planning and 3D Manufacturing Unit (UPAM3D) at Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, part of the Community of Madrid, has reportedly designed, manufactured and implanted the world’s first personalized metamaterial bone prosthesis. Almost a year after the surgery, the patient, a 38-year-old man treated for a high-grade bone sarcoma in the tibia, has shown…
Australian medical training device company Fusetec, Adelaide University, and the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) have embarked on an $800,000 collaborative research project. The project will develop a new generation of biomimetic dental training models, replicas designed to mechanically respond the way real teeth, jawbone, and soft tissue do under surgical force. The 18-month…
Prusa Research, the Czech manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, has refreshed its current hardware lineup with the Prusa XL+, CORE One L+ and CORE One+ (Gen 2). The updated machines introduce changes intended to improve print preparation, surface quality and maintenance. Common additions include integrated nozzle wipers and new GT1.5 belts, while the XL+ and…
A lot is happening with INDX this week. We’ve started shipping the first batch of INDX conversion kits. And starting today, you can order a complete Prusa CORE One+ (Gen 2) with Bondtech INDX, either assembled or as a kit, with... The post Prusa CORE One+ (Gen 2) INDX, Shipping Has Started, Complete Printers Open for Orders appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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,…