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Thursday, September 24
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AML3D Secures AU$0.5M Order for Navy Nuclear Submarine Parts

Austal USA Advanced Technologies has placed an initial production order with AML3D for three large copper-nickel (CuNi) fluid control components destined for US Navy nuclear submarines. The contract, worth roughly AU$0.5 million (about US$358,000), covers high-pressure parts previously made through conventional methods, which will now be built using AML3D’s wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAM) process. The…

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Sep 24, 2026Added 22 days ago
Consumer

LLNL Pairs Machine Learning with Cameras to Catch DIW Defects Early

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system that uses AI and machine learning (ML) to check 3D printed parts while they are still being made. Existing ML approaches for monitoring additive manufacturing (AM) processes have focused mainly on detecting and classifying defects, rather than measuring a part’s actual geometry…

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Sep 24, 2026Added 22 days ago
Consumer

HeyGears Reflex RS Turbo Sets a New Standard for Resin 3D Printing

When creating highly detailed resin prints, speed only matters if the finished result still captures the details that made the model worth printing in the first place. The HeyGears Reflex RS Turbo is designed to combine high-efficiency resin 3D printing with precision, helping creators produce detailed models more efficiently without making print quality an afterthought.…

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Sep 24, 2026Added 23 days ago
Wednesday, September 23
Consumer

Managing 3D Scan Data Just Got a Dedicated Platform With SHINING 3D’s New ShiningSpace

Shenzhen-based 3D scanning technology provider SHINING 3D has launched ShiningSpace, a browser-based digital platform designed to give 3D scanning users a single, organized place to store, view, edit, and share their models after the scan is done. The launch addresses a problem that has followed the 3D scanning industry as the hardware has gotten more…

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Sep 23, 2026Added 23 days ago
Tuesday, September 22
Consumer

OTR Launches OTR3DLab to Prototype Off-the-Road Tires at Full Scale

OTR Engineered Solutions (OTR) has launched OTR3DLab, a service that uses large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) to produce full-scale prototypes of off-the-road tires, wheels, tracks, and related components. The company says prototypes can be delivered in a few weeks instead of months, so customers can review a design before paying for production tooling. More broadly, the…

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Sep 22, 2026Added 24 days ago
Consumer

Isembard Launches Its Largest Factory, Feeding Into Alloyed’s Metal AM Pipeline

British software-first manufacturing startup Isembard opened its new global headquarters and factory in Southwark, central London, on September 14, 2026, calling it the largest factory to open in the capital since the Second World War. The launch caps a year in which the company grew from 4 factories to 16 across the UK, Europe, and…

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Sep 22, 2026Added 25 days ago
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DEEP Manufacturing Holds the World’s Only Full DNV Approval for WAAM Pressure Vessel Production

DEEP Manufacturing, a specialist in wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) for safety-critical structures, has become the world’s first and only fully DNV-approved wire arc additive manufacturer for pressure vessels for human occupancy (PVHOs), pressure hulls, and related equipment and materials, 18 months after launching in January 2025. The company now operates two facilities, in Bristol,…

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Sep 22, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

3D printing speeds up prosthetics for Syria’s wounded

Prosthetics centers in northwest Syria have begun using 3D printing to produce custom limbs for amputees, offering a partial answer to a shortage of prosthetics capacity in a country where nearly three million people have been wounded since the conflict began in 2011. Two centers in Idlib province now rely entirely on the technology and…

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Sep 22, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

Massivit Brings RapidWings Composite Tooling Platform to North America

Israel-based Massivit, has expanded its RapidWings composite tooling platform into North America through a partnership with Artek, a manufacturing and design firm based in Portland, Oregon. Under the arrangement, RapidWings will provide on-demand large-format tooling, prototyping, and demonstration services for aerospace and defense (A&D) customers at Artek’s facility, adding to operations the platform previously launched…

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Sep 22, 2026Added 25 days ago
Monday, September 21
Consumer

VulcanForms, Specter Aerospace Target Low-Cost Hypersonic Munitions With New Manufacturing Partnership

Digital manufacturing firm VulcanForms and Massachusetts-based aerospace startup Specter Aerospace have partnered to produce airbreathing hypersonic weapons at scale, establishing what the companies describe as a first-of-its-kind domestic manufacturing capacity for the sector. The deal pairs VulcanForms’ metal additive manufacturing platform with Specter Aerospace’s hypersonic vehicle development work, aiming to scale production of low-cost hypersonic…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

SFA Team Uses Photogrammetry and AI to Replicate a Moon Rock for National Tour

Faculty, staff, and student workers from Stephen F. Austin State University‘s Makerspace are creating a 3D printed replica of a moon rock from the Apollo 14 mission, working with a genuine NASA-loaned lunar sample housed at the Naranjo Museum of Natural History in Lufkin, Texas. The museum requested the project so it can send the…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

Auburn Team 3D Prints Low-Cost Camera Laryngoscope

A team spanning Auburn University‘s College of Veterinary Medicine and Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has developed a 3D printed, camera-equipped laryngoscope designed to help veterinary students learn to intubate large animals like goats and pigs. The device, which costs about $150 to produce, displays the procedure in real time on a screen, addressing a…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

An AI guide could make personalized 3D printed pills scalable

University of Mississippi researchers have entered a new agreement with pharmaceutical ingredient company Colorcon to build an artificial intelligence-powered database designed to help pharmacies and drug manufacturers produce personalized, 3D printed medications. The project is led by Mo Maniruzzaman, chair and professor of pharmaceutics and drug delivery at Ole Miss, whose lab will develop a…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

Nine Days in Shenzhen: Trying Not to Write That China Is Big

I have been visiting China for more than a decade and have seen first-hand how its 3D printing industry has changed. Alongside a tropical shirt suitable for Shenzhen in August, I packed a notebook full of preconceptions to put to the test as I returned to report at Formnext Asia Shenzhen. China is still routinely…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 25 days ago
Consumer

Fives AddUp to Manufacture FormUp 750 Large-Format Metal Printer in the U.S.

Fives AddUp, the additive manufacturing arm of the Fives Group, announced plans to establish U.S.-based manufacturing for its FormUp 750, a next-generation large-format laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) machine. Industrialization activities are set to begin in 2027 at Fives Machining Systems Inc.’s existing facility in Hebron, Ohio, with U.S.-built units serving the North American market…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
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Stanford lab’s subvoxel 3D printing technique aims to make one part serve multiple functions at once

A 3D printing technique developed by Stanford mechanical engineering professor Natalie Larson is being applied across an unusually wide range of fields, from lab-grown meat to structural vehicle batteries to defense-funded metamaterials, all built on a method that lets multiple materials be extruded and controlled within a single printed strand. Larson, an assistant professor in…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
Consumer

Caracol Becomes America Makes Member, Citing Focus on U.S. Production

Caracol, a robotic additive manufacturing (AM) company focused on large-format AM (LFAM), has recently joined America Makes, the national AM innovation institute within the Manufacturing USA network. The company mentioned the membership in a press release dated September 8, ahead of its participation in the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2026, held September 14 to…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
Consumer

DMSC model-based manufacturing standard gains ANSI approval

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a nonprofit organization that oversees standards and conformity-assessment activities in the United States, has approved Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) v1.0, Persistent Identification and Related Digital Practices as an American National Standard. Developed by the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC), a nonprofit organization that develops standards for digital metrology, MBC 1.0…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
Consumer

TDK Agrees to Acquire Metal 3D Printing Company Fabric8Labs for Up to $400 million

TDK, a Tokyo-based electronics manufacturer, has agreed to acquire Fabric8Labs, a San Diego company developing metal 3D printing technology, for up to $400 million in cash. The price includes an upfront payment and a multi-year earnout, though neither amount was disclosed. The electronics group plans to use the acquisition to expand its data center business,…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
Consumer

Minute Man 3D Printer Crosses Sub-60-second Benchy Barrier

A custom cable-driven 3D printer has produced a physical 3D Benchy in under 60 seconds after its developer replaced the machine’s motion platform and reduced its moving mass. Yan Roetz documented the result on Roetz 4.0, his YouTube channel covering prototyping, 3D printing, and machining. The print concludes a two-year attempt to move Minute Man…

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Sep 21, 2026Added 26 days ago
Saturday, September 19
Consumer

KLS Martin Set to Deliver 500th Lithoz-Printed Bioceramic Implant by End of 3Q 2026

German surgical device manufacturer KLS Martin has made patient-specific ceramic implants built from Lithoz‘s calcium phosphate material LithaBone TCP a standard offering on its IPS Gate platform, and the company expects to reach 500 delivered implants by the end of 3Q 2026. IPS Gate is KLS Martin’s web-based platform for planning, ordering, and delivering its…

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Sep 19, 2026Added 27 days ago
Consumer

Latest Army Award Expands IperionX Titanium Production Capacity

The US Army has issued a second task order to IperionX under its existing $99 million SBIR Phase III contract, committing $11.5 million in immediate funding to expand the company’s titanium powder-to-part manufacturing capacity at its Virginia facility. The award advances IperionX’s role in building a domestic titanium manufacturing capability that reduces reliance on foreign…

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Sep 19, 2026Added 27 days ago
Consumer

UltiMaker and Bioactivx to Target On Demand Wound Care via New Collaboration

Desktop 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker and Singaporean MedTech startup Bioactivx have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a deployable, on-demand 3D printing solution for regenerative wound care. The announcement coincides with two milestones Bioactivx reached. The more significant of the two is Health Sciences Authority (HSA) approval for Bioactivx’s flagship product, the…

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Sep 19, 2026Added 28 days ago
Friday, September 18
Consumer

Bechtle Absorbs Kaut-Bullinger’s HP 3D Printing Operations

Bechtle Additive Manufacturing Deutschland has acquired the HP 3D printing business of Kaut-Bullinger GmbH & Co. KG through an asset deal, a move that reinforces Bechtle’s position as HP‘s top global partner in additive manufacturing (AM). The deal combines Bechtle with its largest competitor in the German HP 3D printing market, while also further strengthening…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 28 days ago
Consumer

New Update in Stratasys v Bambu Lab Patent Infringement Action Lawsuit Stratasys Awarded $27.6 million in Damages, Bambu Lab Disputes

A US jury has awarded Stratasys approximately $27.6 million in past damages after finding that Bambu Lab infringed four 3D printing patents. The verdict followed a week-long trial in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. According to a statement issued by Stratasys, the jury found that all four patents…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 28 days ago
Consumer

ugee Launches AI-Powered Drawing Tablet for Children

Shenzhen-based digital creativity brand ugee launched the ArtPlay Pad on September 15, 2026, a drawing tablet built for young beginner creators that converts children’s 2D sketches into 3D models with a single tap, then exports those models directly to the company’s own kid-oriented 3D printer. The device pairs professional-grade pressure-sensitive pen technology with an AI-powered…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 28 days ago
Consumer

A miniature Blatten: 3D printed terrain tests how rock avalanches move

Researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) and ETH Zurich have built a 3D printed physical replica of the terrain around Blatten, the Swiss village nearly destroyed by a rock avalanche in 2025, to study how mixtures of rock, ice and water move across real landscapes. The model, assembled at a…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

Bambu Lab Launches Global 3D Printing Challenge for Assistive Devices

Bambu Lab has partnered with seven accessibility organizations to launch a global 3D printing design challenge on MakerWorld, running from September through December 2026. The contest will roll out 24 design briefs asking participants to create printable objects that solve specific, everyday problems faced by people with disabilities. The initiative marks the first time MakerWorld…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

MOD, Alloyed take new turbojet engine from concept to flight in under seven months

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and manufacturing start-up Alloyed have taken a new turbojet engine from initial concept to a completed flight in under seven months, as part of a co-development program aimed at building a domestic, rapidly scalable propulsion capability for British defense systems. The program has already produced a family of engines…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

GM Scales Stratasys 3D Printing Across 20 Manufacturing Facilities

Stratasys has announced a new showcase of its long-standing collaboration with General Motors (GM), highlighting how the automaker is using Stratasys additive manufacturing (AM) solutions across more than 20 manufacturing facilities to cut lead times and costs while improving operational performance. GM teams are using Stratasys FDM AM systems to produce tooling, fixtures, jigs, factory…

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Sep 18, 2026Added 29 days ago
Thursday, September 17
Consumer

AI Extinction Event, is Additive Manufacturing also Doomed?

At our online event, AMA: Software 2026, we’ll discuss all elements of the digital ecosystem around additive manufacturing. Register for free here. A warning that a product could end civilisation is an unusual sales pitch. It advertises the product’s importance while raising an awkward question about the judgment of those selling it. For the companies…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

Aware Defense Wins Five-Year Navy Contract for 3D Scanned Hearing Protection

The Naval Air Systems Command’s Aircrew Systems Program Office (PMA-202) has awarded Aware Defense, a division of Aware Custom Biometric Wearables (Aware CBW), a sole-source Program of Record contract to supply custom hearing protection for Naval Aviation personnel, built using additive manufacturing (AM) and the company’s proprietary eFit 3D ear scanning technology. The five-year agreement…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

Prusament PLA Lightweight: 65% lighter than regular PLA. Perfect choice for aircraft, cosplay, and more.

We keep expanding the Prusament portfolio with new, exciting materials! Prusament PLA Lightweight is an actively foaming PLA designed for prints where low mass matters. In the nozzle, heat activates additives that expand the extruded polymer, allowing the same spool mass... The post Prusament PLA Lightweight: 65% lighter than regular PLA. Perfect choice for aircraft, cosplay, and more. appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.

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Sep 17, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

UWE Bristol Lays Groundwork for Growing Gemstones Inside Platinum with Hybrid Metal 3D Printing

Researchers at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England‘s Bridge Studios have used a hybrid metal 3D printing and CNC machining setup, built around a Meltio Engine integration kit on a HAAS 5-axis machine, to grow rubies and sapphires directly inside platinum jewelry structures. The project, developed in…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 29 days ago
Consumer

SWISSto12 secures Mitsubishi Electric antenna contract as companies target Japanese satellite market

Swiss satellite communications company SWISSto12 has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) to pursue satellite payload and radio frequency (RF) opportunities in Japan and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Alongside the agreement, Mitsubishi Electric has awarded SWISSto12 a contract to supply advanced phased array antenna products for the Japanese Government’s geostationary…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

Researchers develop 3D printable metallic glass for more efficient electric motors

Researchers working on the European AM2SoftMag project have developed an iron-based metallic glass designed for Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), targeting soft-magnetic components for more energy-efficient electric motors. Designed by researchers at Saarland University (UdS) in Germany, the alloy can be processed by LPBF while retaining a highly amorphous structure. The material contains iron, silicon,…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 1 month ago
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New LPBF Validation Targets Crack-Free Copper-Nickel Alloy Aerospace Parts

Chinese metal additive manufacturing equipment maker Eplus3D has collaborated with Young-Will Aerospace to validate a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process for copper-nickel (CuNi) alloy aerospace components. The project produced crack-free parts with a tensile strength of 570 MPa, 18% above what conventional forging achieves for the same alloy. The result is worth pausing on,…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 1 month ago
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3D Printing Industry announces AMA: Software 2026

3D Printing Industry will host AMA: Software on 22 October 2026, bringing together software developers, manufacturers, researchers and end users to examine the technologies shaping the future of additive manufacturing and advanced production. Software increasingly determines what additive manufacturing systems can produce, how reliably they operate and whether they can be integrated into wider industrial…

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Sep 17, 2026Added 1 month ago
Wednesday, September 16
Consumer

From Digital Design to Physical Expression: Aliencell and CHITUBOX Introduce E1

As digital fabrication tools continue to evolve, creators are redefining what it means to “finish” a piece of work. For many users, creation no longer ends with modeling, slicing, and previewing on a screen. It continues in the real world through fabrication, personalization, and expression. For years, CHITUBOX has focused on 3D printing software, helping…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

AEVEX Aerospace and Divergent Technologies Team Up to Speed Autonomous Drone Production

U.S. defense technology company AEVEX Aerospace and Divergent Technologies announced a strategic collaboration to pair AEVEX’s operational experience in fielded unmanned aircraft with Divergent’s digital manufacturing platform, aiming to compress the timeline between concept and deployment for next-generation autonomous systems. The two companies are structuring the partnership around complementary strengths. AEVEX has delivered thousands of…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

Fronius launches integrated Additive Cell for automated WAAM production

Fronius, an Austrian welding technology and automation company, has launched the Fronius Additive Cell, a turnkey Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) system combining welding hardware, robotic automation and additive-specific software. Designed for industrial metal 3D printing, the system integrates the company’s CMT Additive PRO welding process with Fronius iWave hardware, Polaris cell control and its…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
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AML3D Posts First-Ever Half-Year Profit as FY26 Revenue Jumps 70%

Australian metal 3D printing company AML3D Limited has recorded its first-ever half-year profit, booking EBITDA of $608,000 for the six months to 30 June 2026, as the company closed out a financial year in which revenue climbed 70% to a record $12.5 million. The manufacturer, whose ARCEMY systems use its patented Wire Additive Manufacturing (WAM)…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Modix Generation 5 brings tool changing, pellet extrusion and angled printing to BIG series

Large-format 3D printer manufacturer Modix has announced Generation 5, a new electronics platform rolling out across its BIG series of large-format 3D printers. The upgrade moves Modix machines to the Duet 3 control platform with CANBUS distributed electronics, providing capacity for more than 20 axes and drivers. According to the company, the additional control capacity…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

Shoulder Innovations Partners with ALM Ortho on Bespoke Titanium Implants for Complex Shoulder Cases

Shoulder Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: SI), a company focused on transforming the shoulder surgical care market, has entered into an exclusive collaboration with ALM Ortho, Inc., a manufacturer of titanium orthopedic implants produced through additive manufacturing (AM). The partnership introduces a patient-specific implant designed for severe shoulder deformity and other complex revision cases that currently lack…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

Skyrora Cuts Rocket Engine Mass 44% with Titanium 3D Printed Part

UK launch company Skyrora has finished hot-fire testing a 3.5kN low Earth orbit engine built with a titanium-coated component developed through the European Union-funded MADE-3D program. The test campaign, carried out at Skyrora’s facility in Midlothian, Scotland, closes out the company’s work within the Horizon Europe-backed MADE-3D consortium, which brought together research organizations and industrial…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

Mosaic launches Orion automated 3D printing platform for custom orthotics

Canadian additive manufacturing company Mosaic Manufacturing has launched Orion, a purpose-built 3D printing platform for producing custom orthotics in orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) labs and clinics. The system uses a belt-based 3D printing architecture designed to move patient-specific devices through production sequentially. Automated queue management allows one patient case to follow another, enabling unattended overnight…

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Sep 16, 2026Added 1 month ago
Tuesday, September 15
Consumer

NASENI Unveils Plans for Nigeria’s First Metal Additive Manufacturing Hub

Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has announced plans to build the country’s first Metal Additive Manufacturing Hub, an initiative intended to reduce Nigeria’s reliance on imported industrial components and build domestic metal 3D printing capacity. The agency presented the plan at the second edition of its Science Perspective Engagement Series, held…

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Sep 15, 2026Added 1 month ago
Consumer

SHINING 3D Metrology Presented Three Upgraded 3D Scanning Systems

SHINING 3D Metrology held a webinar titled “New Product Members of SHINING 3D Metrology” on September 9, introducing three upgraded 3D scanning systems and discussing how manufacturers can select a scanning solution based on four representative production scenarios. The session is framed around specific application challenges rather than a straightforward specification comparison. Three Upgraded Scanners…

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Sep 15, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Creality Introduces K3, SPARKX i8, and New Product Lineup at IFA 2026

Creality introduced a new lineup of 3D printing and digital fabrication products at IFA 2026 in Berlin, spanning multicolor printing, filament recycling, resin printing, 3D scanning, laser processing, and 3D printed footwear. The lineup reflects Creality’s push to expand beyond desktop 3D printers into a broader ecosystem covering material recycling, digital scanning, and finished consumer…

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Sep 15, 2026Added 1 month ago