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Disrupt yourself or someone else will do it for you: this is the lesson that the US military has been conveying to its suppliers all year. The advanced manufacturing demonstrations...
It represents Quickparts' second major capacity investment in 18 months as the company works to enhance its additive manufacturing capability and service to the aerospace and defence sectors.
Additive Willmann expects the software to strengthen traceability and reduce manual effort, while increasing customer confidence in AM technology and AM services.
The program will focus on embedding electrical conductors directly within composite structures to enable load-bearing components that also serve as integrated power distribution systems.
Despite its industrial might and precision engineering excellence, Japan has been rather aloof to 3D printing over the past decades. Despite an early start by companies such as Teijin Seiki...
6K Additive (ASX: 6KA) grew rapidly in the first half of 2026 as demand for its metal powders increased, particularly from aerospace and defense customers. The newly public company also...
According to the Pentagon, “We will not defeat our adversaries with compliance checklists; we will defeat them by rapidly fielding superior capabilities produced by an expanded, resilient American industrial base.”...
Ruben Wauthle studied at Leuven University at a very serendipitous time. Through working with pioneering additive professors and surgeons, he entered into a specialty that was emerging. He joined pioneering...
In Hall 15 at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026, consumer 3D printing was everywhere, from toys, figurines, and character models to thousand-machine production farms. Green-laser companies displayed copper cold plates for...
TCT takes a tour of Aectual's Amsterdam R&D lab and learns how it is using 3D printing to reimagine the built environment.
Let's just get one thing out of the way – additive manufacturing is expensive, okay? Stick a 3D printed part side-by-side with a machined or injection moulded part and it's unlikely going to emerge victorious when it comes to cost. There are exceptions, of
Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) researchers detail the development of a new high-temperature, 3D-printable aluminium alloy.
TCT visits the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre North West to find out how it's accelerating UK adoption of additive manufacturing.
Resource optimisation, climate risk assessments, and ESG forums.
PanOptimization founders Pan Michaleris and Erik Denlinger on the dynamic between simulation and physical testing, and why the company has opted against raising venture capital funds.
The CEO shares the company plans to scale with its proprietary 12-laser AM system.
The UK's 3D printing research machine is impressive on paper but riddled with overlap writes our latest Anonymous Columnist.
BMW Group’s Head of Additive Manufacturing Timo Göbel talks WAAM and what’s next.
Laura Griffiths learns how Beehive Industries is rapidly scaling towards unprecedented production volumes for aerospace propulsion systems.
As LightForce Orthodontics launches its LightBracket Metal teeth-straightening product, Dr Chris Jackson and James Lawton tell Sam Davies why AM is pivotal to their manufacturing processes.
Materialise CEO talks transforming healthcare, openness, and rejecting the hype around the industry it helped build.
As contract manufacturers continue to develop proprietary laser-based powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) systems rather than procure them from the market, Shane Collins, Tech Fellow, Metal AM at Wohlers Associates, explores the technical and economic motivations.
"The inspiration that 3D printing can provide is this industry’s greatest recruitment and retainment tool."
How Avio Aero established itself as an additive manufacturing leader.
I’ve seen 3D printed guitars before; my favorite is Olaf Diegel’s Xenomorph guitar. I’ve even seen a 3D printed ukulele and some 3D printed violins. This is the first time...
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, America Makes announced the winner of its GOTHAAM Project Call. Then it’s all about healthcare 3D printing news, with Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions...
Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand, and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment...
Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force...
Big brands pull away from 3D printing, AM users raise tens of millions in venture capital, and AM's public companies report their financial performance for Q2 2026.
Maintenance and interiors aircraft giant Lufthansa Technik is exploring 3D printing at greater depths, hoping to take its customers to the heights they’re accustomed to. A team at Lufthansa Technik...
Creality (HKG: 3388) sold more products in the first half of 2026, but lower margins and higher spending pushed the consumer 3D printing company into the red. At the same...
“This approach could make it easier to produce these components in the U.S., reducing supply chain challenges for advanced nuclear energy systems.”
If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a...
We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more...
One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need...
The five-day event will take place at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City and includes presentations, hands-on workshops, AMUGexpo, and networking activities.
HeyGears was started in 2015 and has been making value-driven Vat Polymerization systems for dental and home use. The company is marketing savvy and very driven. Now the firm has...
"It means there is now a trusted defence partner they already know who can bring Phase3D inspection technology into more depots, bases, laboratories, and manufacturing programs."
We’re kicking things off today with software news, as the new Meshy 7 is now live. Then we’ll move on to business, with ExOne and voxeljet now operating as a...
Several of those 3D printed components make up the 21C's BioLogic Chassis including MegaNode, side and rear crash structures, rear subframe, and rear suspension components.
A new 3D printed stent developed at New York University (NYU) does not look like the devices doctors typically use today. Instead of a simple tube, the prototype resembles a...
The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) boom was devastating for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Peaking in 2021 — and, of course, subsuming companies from industries far beyond AM —...
In this series, we’re looking at the main considerations when designing and implementing a 3D printed product. In this case, we’re using Cathy’s 3D printed brace business as an example....
At the heart of Valiant's additive manufacturing capabilities are some of the industry's most advanced metal 3D printing systems.
Ursa Major Technologies is set to go public via a definitive business combination agreement with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. III, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) led and backed by Inflection Point Asset Management. When the deal closes, the Colorado-based aerospace and defence manufacturer, which relies heavily on additive
Germany-based Malping, located in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, is moving into more high performance materials for Material Extrusion. The service operates FGF and FDM high-temperature material printers, and offers parts,...
In my most recent post about RIMPAC, I noted that US military joint exercises appear to be the latest function of the US government to be leveraged by the Trump...
For years, additive manufacturing has promised engineers greater design freedom. The challenge wasn’t printing the part—it was proving the part belonged on an aircraft. Designing a lightweight bracket or consolidating...
ATLANT 3D has launched a new industrial-scale manufacturing system as it works to bring its unusual form of atomic-scale additive manufacturing (AM) into semiconductors, AI materials research and advanced electronics....
Discover how digital manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and bridge production help medical device companies accelerate development, reduce risk, and enable customization The post From Prototype to Production: How Medical Innovators Are Accelerating Time-to-Market with Digital Manufacturing appeared first on Shapeways Blog.