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The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has spent the last few years getting a lot more serious about business. Growth, profitability, consolidation, defense spending, supply chains, and scaling production now matter...
When he showed up on Google Meet for our interview, I could see that Philip Pounds, co-founder of Unlayered 3D, was seated shotgun in a moving car. I wasn’t sure...
Schendy Kernizan worked as a professor and researcher before co-founding RLP (Rapid Liquid Print), a company that extrudes silicone into a hydrogel. RLP allows for pure silicone to be made...
Thanks to this LinkedIn Post by Lukas Ziegler, I found out about the Berkeley Humanoid Lite. Now I’ve always been quite skeptical of humanoid robots. Why not just get two...
Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result is now on display at Blenheim Palace in...
We’re starting with defense news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, before moving on to polymers for CubeSats and 3D printed prosthetics. We’ll end with a story about engineering...
Every kilogram sent into space comes at a cost. So engineers have spent decades finding ways to make spacecraft lighter. The next frontier will be producing some of the parts...
In 3D printing, key industries include things such as poka-yoke and manufacturing tools like jigs and fixtures. These low-volume tools save money and reduce errors. Refits in things like military...
For metal additive manufacturing (AM) to grow in the United States, companies need more than printers. They also need a reliable supply of the powders that go into those machines....
After Bedrock 3D split from BASF, the company was independent but still a little unsure about its future. The former Innofil3D operation, later dubbed Forward AM Technologies Netherlands, was BASF’s main...
CMCs offer exceptional thermal resistance, strength-to-weight ratio, and oxidation resistance, making them attractive for turbine engines, hypersonic vehicles, and thermal-protection systems.
Inspection software and tooling firm Phase3D has been given a Department of the Air Force contract. Its Fringe Inspection platform will be used in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). CMCs are...
Creality continues to expand its 3D scanning lineup with devices aimed at very different use cases, from the compact Creality Pika to the more advanced standalone Sermoon P1. In this guide, we track the latest Creality 3D scanners, highlight their key features and specifications, and link to our hands-on reviews where available. The Pika will […] The post Creality New 3D Scanners: PIKA, Sermoon P1 & More appeared first on 3DWithUs – 3D Printing, Scanning, Design Guides & Forums.
We’re starting with metal 3D printing business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as SBO is expanding its capacity in the US and the UK, and Continuum Powders is...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The industrial underpinnings of US military readiness have been hampered by an overcommitment to weapons systems whose long-term value is increasingly questionable. This isn’t so much a generational problem as...
Formlabs is doing a management shuffle, pointing the firm even more surely towards an IPO or other exit event. For one, I just noticed that the company has a Head...
The geography of the manufacturing sites that produce 3D printers is a bit of a blindspot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Industry stakeholders in the West have been forced...