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Thursday, May 28
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Prusament Resin Model+: New generation resin with safer health profile and better impact resistance

Meet Prusament Resin Model+, our reformulated SLA resin with faster exposure, better impact resistance, and reduced pigment sedimentation! The Prusament Model Resin has long been a flagship of our SLA lineup. It offers reliable and fast printing in detail, and most of... The post Prusament Resin Model+: New generation resin with safer health profile and better impact resistance appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.

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May 28, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Recyclable Material Unlocks New Era for 3D Printing

Researchers Masaru Mukai, Shoji Maruo, and colleagues at Yokohama National University have introduced a photocurable resin that can be printed, melted down, and printed again, more than ten times over, without adding a single chemical along the way. The material, built around the reversible photodimerization of anthracene, could mark a turning point for sustainable high-resolution…

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May 28, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Sinterit Introduces BIANCO2, a New Compact SLS Platform

Polish SLS 3D printer manufacturer Sinterit has unveiled BIANCO2, a compact SLS system designed around open material compatibility and broad application flexibility. The announcement builds on over a decade of SLS development and an installed base spanning more than 80 countries. The core proposition of BIANCO2 is its open architecture. Users gain access to up…

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May 28, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Electroninks Launches CircuitJet IV PCB Manufacturing Platform

Metal complex inks specialist Electroninks has shared the commercial launch timeline for CircuitJet IV, a benchtop system designed to handle PCB fabrication and assembly within a single integrated platform. The company expects it to be available to customers in Q4 2026. The intended user base includes R&D teams, product development groups, universities, and manufacturing facilities…

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May 28, 2026Added 1 month ago
Wednesday, May 27
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Nano Dimension Takes Substantial Loss on Sale of Markforged to Stratasys

Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Nano Dimension has agreed to sell its Markforged subsidiary to rival 3D printing company Stratasys in an all-cash deal worth $42.5 million. With this move, the Israeli manufacturer is shedding one of its cash-burning business units as it works through a restructuring plan. The sale is part of a broader divestiture…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Snowbird Technologies to Demonstrate Field-Ready Manufacturing at RIMPAC 2026

Defense and space manufacturing company Snowbird Technologies has been confirmed as a participant in the 30th Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) 2026. The company will take part through the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (NPS CAMRE) and its distributed advanced manufacturing experiment—one of the exercise’s key technology showcases. Scheduled…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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New Cedar Concrete 3D Printer: Technical Specifications and Pricing

Holcim and British International Investment’s (BII) joint venture 14Trees and Chennai-based Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions have jointly developed Cedar concrete 3D printer designed for large-scale construction deployment. Cedar is designed to work with locally available concrete mixes rather than the proprietary mortar-based materials that many existing 3D concrete printing systems require. The companies say this reduces…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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AMA: Healthcare 2026 Volumetric Bioprinting and the Vascularization Problem: How Utrecht Is Closing the Gap

With AMA: Healthcare on June 4th putting 3D printing for healthcare under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Tissue models have long been constrained by the same three problems: they take too long to build, they cannot scale meaningfully, and their structure falls short of…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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ETH Zurich Ignites Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine

A student team from ETH Zurich‘s Academic Space Initiative Switzerland (ARIS) has successfully ignited a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) using liquid propellants, recording stable detonation waves during a night test at Dübendorf Airfield in Switzerland. The achievement, reached by the 20-strong Pegasus team in early April 2026, places the students in rare company: only…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Hadassah Surgeons Used 3D Printing to Rebuild What Vanishing Bone Disease Took Away

Hadassah Hospital surgeons have performed what is believed to be the first surgery of its kind in Israel, using two custom 3D printed implants to reconstruct a pelvis and femur almost entirely destroyed by vanishing bone disease, a condition so rare that very few doctors encounter it in an entire career. The patient, a 24-year-old…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
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USC Researchers Print MRI Coils for a Fraction of the Cost

MRI coils, the specialised antennas that sit close to the body and capture the radiofrequency signals that become diagnostic images, have long been a bottleneck in clinical imaging. They are rigid, expensive, and built to a one-size-fits-all standard that works reasonably well for adults but poorly for children, infants, and anyone requiring imaging of moving…

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May 27, 2026Added 1 month ago
Tuesday, May 26
Consumer

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer

For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: This is a... The post Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer appeared first on Original Prusa 3D Printers.

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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AMA: Healthcare 2026 Lynxter on Bringing Silicone 3D Printing Into Regulated Medical Production

As the industry prepares for AMA: Healthcare on June 4th, few material challenges in 3D printing healthcare have proven as persistent as silicone. Too liquid to stack, too chemically sensitive to alter, and too regulated to compromise, it has long resisted conventional printing approaches. Elastomeric AM solution provider Lynxter has spent nearly a decade working…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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France Just Built Europe’s Largest 3D Printed Apartment Block,  Three Months Faster Than Expected

A social housing development in Bezannes, France has set a new benchmark for 3D construction printing in Europe. The project, called ViliaSprint², delivers 12 apartments across three floors and roughly 800 square meters of livable space, making it the continent’s largest 3D printed multi-family residential building to date. The structure was brought to life through…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Barcelona Nightclub Becomes First in the World to Use Concrete 3D Printing in a Full Renovation

Sutton Barcelona has become the first nightclub in the world to undergo a full renovation using concrete 3D printing. The project was completed in seven weeks, a timeline that would typically span around five months under conventional construction methods. The refurbishment was carried out by construction firm Construnext in partnership with Aridditive, combining off-site digital…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Modix Launches MAMA-1000 Pellet 3D Printer

Israeli manufacturer Modix Modular Technologies has expanded its industrial printer range with the MAMA-1000, a large-format machine built around a one cubic meter build volume. The new model slots below the existing MAMA-1700 in the company’s lineup, targeting manufacturers, research institutions, and fabrication teams that need industrial-grade capability without committing to the larger platform’s footprint.…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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AMA: Healthcare 2026: What Is Driving 3D Printing in Dentistry Toward a $10BN Market Value?

Dentistry was one of the first industries to be reshaped by 3D printing in healthcare, and most patients never noticed. A decade ago, virtually no dental practice owned a printer; today, one in seven does. Scott Dunham, VP of research at AM Research, has spent over a decade tracking the numbers. He also has family…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Zellerfeld and Baron Davis Launch the OD Easy PZ, a 3D Printed Sneaker Born from the Culture

Retired NBA All-Star Baron Davis’s latest venture brings him into the 3D printed footwear space. Alongside partners Sean O’Shea and Geoff Deas, Davis launched OverDose, a new brand whose debut product is the OD Easy PZ, developed in collaboration with 3D footwear manufacturer Zellerfeld. The project, framed under the banner “From Analog to AI,” is…

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May 26, 2026Added 1 month ago
Sunday, May 24
Consumer

NP Aerospace Produces Mastiff Suspension Carrier via WAAM, Cutting Lead Times by 50%

NP Aerospace, working with the Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), has used Caracol‘s Vipra AM platform to produce the Mastiff suspension and differential carrier, a structurally critical, load-bearing component for protected and dual-use vehicles, through wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). Printed as a single piece without tooling in 60 hours, the component marks a direct challenge…

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May 24, 2026Added 1 month ago
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India’s First Four-Engine Cluster Firing Marks New Frontier for Agnikul Cosmos

Agnikul Cosmos, the Chennai-based private launch startup, has reached another propulsion milestone: the simultaneous firing of four semi-cryogenic rocket engines, all of them 3D printed as individual, single-piece components and developed entirely in-house at the company’s Rocket Factory 1 facility. According to Agnikul, the test is the first of its kind in India involving semi-cryogenic…

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May 24, 2026Added 1 month ago
Saturday, May 23
Consumer

i3D Manufacturing Acquires Burloak Technologies in New Deal

i3D Manufacturing, a business unit within the BTX Precision group, has completed the acquisition of Burloak Technologies, a metal additive manufacturing specialist based in Oakville, Ontario. The move adds technical depth to i3D’s existing capabilities and marks BTX Precision’s first footprint outside the United States. Jason Ball, VP & General Manager of Burloak, framed the…

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May 23, 2026Added 1 month ago
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ROBOZE Acquires Dimanex to Wire the Physical and Digital Sides of Manufacturing Together

Italian advanced manufacturing company ROBOZE has acquired key assets from Dimanex, a Dutch software platform that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. The deal brings Dimanex’s platform together with ROBOZE’s existing software tools, Pandora and SlizeR, closing a persistent gap in its ecosystem: connecting physical machines directly to digital inventory management and decentralized supply chains…

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May 23, 2026Added 1 month ago
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3D Prod and Sculpteo Merge to Scale AM in France

French additive manufacturing providers 3D Prod and Sculpteo have announced a merger, with 3D Prod, backed by injection moulding firm Platex, acquiring Sculpteo from BASF New Business GmbH, which had held the company since its 2019 purchase. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The combined entity aims to establish itself as a reference point…

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May 23, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Open Bionics Expands Hero FLEX to Above-Elbow Amputees with First Clinical Fitting in New York

A New York-based physicist has made history as the world’s first above-elbow amputee to be fitted with a full-length, 3D printed bionic arm. Born with an amputation following a circulatory complication eight days after birth, Gowtham spent most of his life without a functional prosthetic. The fitting was carried out by UK-based prosthetics company Open…

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May 23, 2026Added 1 month ago
Friday, May 22
Consumer

Smart Skin Technology to Protect Robots in Space

The European Space Agency has appointed a pan-European consortium led by Danish Technological Institute, a Denmark-based research and technology organization, to develop a protective covering for robotic arms used in space. Called Smart Skin for Exploration Cobots, the €1.65 million project will run for 24 months from 2026 to 2028 and aims to produce two…

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May 22, 2026Added 1 month ago
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FITASY’s Single-Shoe Option Shows What Inclusive Footwear Looks Like

Custom-fit 3D printed footwear company FITASY has updated its production platform to allow customers to order a single shoe rather than a pair, priced at exactly half the cost. The option, now live at fitasy.com, is aimed at people who need only one shoe, including prosthetic users, and marks the first time a custom-fit 3D…

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May 22, 2026Added 1 month ago
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3D Printing Redefines Readiness at FlyTrap 5.0

The 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment concluded FlyTrap 5.0 in Lithuania this month, wrapping up a nearly month-long multinational exercise testing counter-drone systems, electronic warfare, and unmanned ground vehicles under live force-on-force conditions. Close to 1,000 troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, and allied nations took part. Among the most consequential outcomes was a…

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May 22, 2026Added 1 month ago
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UltiMaker Launches Factor 4 Plus for Industrial and Defense 3D Printing

UltiMaker, a manufacturer of desktop and industrial 3D printing systems recently, launched the Factor 4 Plus, a new industrial platform designed for continuous production in manufacturing and defense. Built as a faster version of the standard Factor 4, the new system delivers up to twice the print speed and targets applications including custom jigs, fixtures,…

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May 22, 2026Added 1 month ago
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Snapmaker brings Full Spectrum developer Ratdoux into multicolor 3D printing software push

Shenzhen-based desktop 3D printer manufacturer Snapmaker has hired Radu “Ratdoux”, the original developer behind the experimental Full Spectrum color-mixing slicer, to help lead a new multicolor 3D printing initiative. Announced in May 2026, the move will see Snapmaker begin work on officially integrating Full Spectrum’s virtual color-mixing technology into upcoming versions of Snapmaker Orca, the…

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May 22, 2026Added 1 month ago
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AMCRC approves first CORE projects with $11M AM research investment

The Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) has approved its first five industry-led CORE research projects, unlocking more than $11 million in combined investment for additive manufacturing research across Australia. Announced in Melbourne on 21 May 2026, the projects represent the first major R&D investments under AMCRC’s Commonwealth-backed program to strengthen manufacturing competitiveness, productivity, and…

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May 22, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Lynxter Introduces World’s First FDA-Certified 3D Printable Food-Grade Silicone

French elastomer specialist Lynxter has launched SIL-004, a platinum-cured liquid silicone engineered specifically for direct-contact use in food and beverage environments. The company positions SIL-004 as the world’s first 3D printable silicone to carry FDA CFR 21 177-2600 certification, a standard governing rubber articles intended for repeated food contact. Free of BPA and PFAS, SIL-004…

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May 22, 2026Added 2 months ago
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America Makes Names Six Suppliers for $1.7M Defense AM Qualification Project

U.S. additive manufacturing innovation institute America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), a defense manufacturing and machining organization, have named six winners for the Joint Additive Qualification for Sustainment, Supplier Qualification project call. Funded through the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office, the $1.7 million JAQS-SQ…

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May 22, 2026Added 2 months ago
Thursday, May 21
Consumer

Penn State’s 3D Printed CaroFlex Device Opens a New Front in Drug-Resistant Hypertension

Nearly half of all adults in the United States live with hypertension, and for roughly one in ten of them, conventional drug treatments simply don’t work. A research team at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) has developed a potential answer: a soft, 3D printed bioelectronic device that attaches directly to one of the body’s most critical…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Tampere Team 3D Prints Bone-Like Ceramic That Guides the Body’s Own Repair

Researchers at Tampere University have developed a 3D printed ceramic implant that closely replicates the composition and internal architecture of natural human bone. Published in Materials Today Bio, the work advances the case for patient-specific bone regeneration without the need for donor tissue, synthetic drugs, or growth factors, and may offer a more accessible path…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
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CU Anschutz Researchers Reinvent the Denture: Faster, Smarter, and Built to Fight Bacteria

Researchers at the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine are investigating whether multimaterial inkjet 3D printing could reshape how dentures are designed and manufactured. Led by Jeffrey Stansbury, PhD, senior associate dean for research and professor of dental medicine, the team is developing photo-curable polymer materials intended to improve on current prosthetic performance, in durability,…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
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TU Delft researchers 3D print living mycelium materials with growth-driven functionalization

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a 3D printing approach for shaping living mycelium materials that can self-assemble functional particles during growth. Published in Advanced Functional Materials, the study demonstrates how fungal networks can be printed, grown, and selectively functionalized to create biohybrid living materials with tunable electrical properties. The work…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
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CU Boulder and Columbia researchers develop bio-inspired 3D printed earth material

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia University have developed a bio-inspired approach to improve the 3D printing of earthen construction materials. Published in Nature Communications, the study introduces a multiscale optimization framework that uses biopolymers to improve the printability, stability, and processing speed of natural earth materials. The researchers tested how different…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Bambu Lab Now Under Formal Investigation for AGPLv3 Violations

Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab sent a cease-and-desist letter to Polish developer Paweł Jarczak, forcing him to remove a fork of OrcaSlicer that restored cloud printing features the company had locked to its own software. Within days, YouTubers with audiences in the millions had pledged $20,000 in legal defense funds, rehosted the code, and…

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May 21, 2026Added 2 months ago
Wednesday, May 20
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Rocket Lab’s 3D Printed Engine Hits 1,000 Units

US-based space systems company Rocket Lab has completed production of its 1,000th Rutherford engine at its Long Beach, California facility, a milestone that reflects the maturation of additive manufacturing as a viable industrial process in orbital spaceflight. The Rutherford is the world’s first 3D printed, electric pump-fed orbital rocket engine, and its production volume now…

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May 20, 2026Added 2 months ago
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K3D Adds Two MetalFab Systems as Metal AM Capacity Expands

Additive Industries, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of industrial metal 3D printing systems, has announced that K3D, a Dutch metal 3D printing service provider, has added two more of its MetalFab systems. The expansion brings the company’s total MetalFab installation to six asystems across two manufacturing sites, with a combined capacity of nine additive manufacturing cores. Materials…

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May 20, 2026Added 2 months ago
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GoEngineer Acquires SKA, Expanding Footprint in Latin America

GoEngineer, the world’s largest full-service engineering solutions provider and an authorized partner of Dassault Systèmes, Stratasys, and Bright Laser Technologies, has acquired SKA, a provider of SOLIDWORKS and engineering technologies in Latin America. SKA will operate as “SKA, a GoEngineer company,” marking its first expansion into Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere. Founded in 1989…

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May 20, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Axtra3D Launches KeyModel Ultra Ivory for Lumia X1 in Dental Materials Partnership with Keystone

Axtra3D, a US- and Italy-based manufacturer of high speed SLA 3D printing systems, has launched KeyModel Ultra Ivory for its Lumia X1 platform through a dental materials partnership with Keystone Industries, a dental materials manufacturer. Ivory is the only validated color of the resin on the Lumia X1 at the time of the press release,…

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May 20, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Carfulan Group Reports Nearly £1 Million In Orders At MACH

Carfulan Group, a UK provider of advanced manufacturing solutions, secured nearly £1 million in new orders at MACH in what it described as its strongest appearance at the exhibition to date. Across the five-day event, deals were signed across Metrios, which supplies shopfloor measurement systems, OGP, a manufacturer of metrology equipment, VICIVISION, which develops optical…

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May 20, 2026Added 2 months ago
Tuesday, May 19
Consumer

University of Illinois Team Is Engineering the Fix for the AI Heat Crisis

Mechanical engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new approach to cooling computer chips that could reduce the share of energy data centers spend on thermal management. The method, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, pairs a mathematical design algorithm with an electrochemical 3D printing process to fabricate pure copper cold plates,…

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May 19, 2026Added 2 months ago
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AMA: Healthcare 2026: How to Overcome the Red Tape Sabotaging Medical Implant Innovation

In the realm of 3D printing in healthcare, a simple idea sits at the center of modern orthopaedic implant design: the best implant is one that the body forgets is there. Not one that is the strongest, not one that is the stiffest, but one that restores function well enough that bone grows around it…

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May 19, 2026Added 2 months ago
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1st Special Forces Group Is Using 3D Printing to Redefine Army Readiness

Soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord got a hands-on look at 3D printing technology during a symposium hosted by 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), reinforcing how the military is rethinking its approach to readiness. The event brought together Soldiers from across the installation to explore additive manufacturing, walking them through the full production cycle, from digital…

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May 19, 2026Added 2 months ago
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ORNL Combines 3D Printing and High-Pressure Processing to Reshape Large-Scale Metal Part Production

For the first time, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used additive manufacturing to fabricate the canisters for powder metallurgical hot isostatic pressing (PM-HIP), eliminating the welding, machining and forming steps that have long constrained the production of large, critical metal components. The developments opens a faster, more flexible path to dense, near-final-shape parts…

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May 19, 2026Added 2 months ago
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Sweden’s TRUSTAM Initiative Brings Federated AI to Additive Manufacturing Quality Control

Vinnova, Sweden’s national innovation agency, has awarded funding to TRUSTAM (Trusted Federated Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing), a consortium-driven initiative bringing together Interspectral, Saab, AMEXCI, and Scaleout Systems. The program targets one of the most persistent friction points in industrial AI adoption: how to build shared intelligence across production sites while keeping sensitive process data fully…

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May 19, 2026Added 2 months ago
Monday, May 18
Consumer

Skuld Patents its Process to Cast Wrought Aluminum From Scrap

US-based manufacturing company Skuld is leading a DARPA Rubble to Rockets (R2R) program effort to convert scrap metal into structural parts through advanced casting and AI-assisted analysis. The company has filed a patent application covering its ability to cast wrought-grade aluminum alloys, including 6061 and 7075, directly from scrap feedstock. That detail reframes what might…

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May 18, 2026Added 2 months ago
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AMA: Healthcare 2026 Speakers Announced for 3D printing and healthcare event

The next event in our Additive Manufacturing Advantage (AMA) focuses on the use of 3D printing in healthcare. AMA: Healthcare 2026 will bring together leading voices in medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and regenerative manufacturing to examine how additive manufacturing is moving from specialist use cases toward scalable healthcare production. Our free online event on June 4th…

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May 18, 2026Added 2 months ago