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Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers · 2026-10-13

Maker Faire Rome 2026: 400+ Stories Of Innovation, Creativity and Discovery

• Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition: 23–25 October 2026Gazometro Ostiense, RomeTickets are available exclusively online at makerfairerome.eu. Humanoid football, hands-on research, and more return to the Gazometro: The 14th edition runs from 23 to 25 October with 26 secondary schools, 27 universities and research centers, 145 projects and new programs spanning robotics, craft, books, food […] The post Maker Faire Rome 2026: 400+ Stories Of Innovation, Creativity and Discovery a

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Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers · 2026-10-13

Open Source Hardware Certifications for September 2026

• The Open Source Hardware Association added certifications for an educational physics device, a 3D printer air mover, a USB protection device, and more. The post Open Source Hardware Certifications for September 2026  appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-13

Can India’s AM Push Help Make it a Viable Supplement to China?

• Diversifying manufacturing supply chains to locales outside of China has nothing to do with actually cultivating “substitutes” to the Chinese economy. The real stakes are these: China is an irreplaceable...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-13

Deals, Dollars and 3D Printing: What’s Moving in AM

• There’s been plenty of business activity in additive manufacturing (AM) lately, with new deals, partnerships and investments in production. One of the bigger moves comes from Sweden, where investment firm...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-13

The Hidden Economics of Powder Bed 3D Printing: Closing the Loop in Powder Management

• Automation is a very topical thing in additive manufacturing at the moment. With renewed scale, some clients are fervently looking to automate production. Other business cases only make sense with...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-14

Inside MGA’s 10th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Berlin

• Mobility goes Additive (MGA) is an organization exploring collaborative implementation of additive manufacturing. Based in Berlin, MGA staffers work in defense, rail, and medicine while exploring urban transport, lifestyle, and...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-14

With Its Latest $200M Round, ICON May Be Running Away With the 3D Printed Construction Market

• I used to view ICON, the Austin-based additive construction (AC) firm, as one of a handful of companies that could realistically consider itself the leader of the 3D printed construction...

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-13

3D printed $1,000 fix that replaces $200,000 submarine alteration

• Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! A US Navy submarine crew has sent an underwater drone out of a flooded torpedo tube. A 3D printed watertight enclosure kept the vehicle linked to the boat throughout. Sailors from USS Pasadena (SSN 752), a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, ran…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-13

UpNano Launches 3D Adaptive Resolution for Two-Photon Polymerization

• What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Vienna-based UpNano has introduced 3D Adaptive Resolution (3DAR), a technology that shapes the printing voxel along the X, Y and Z axes during two-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing, so that it follows the geometry being built. The first 3DAR-capable printers have been purchased by…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-13

America Makes Awards $12.4M to Validate Metal AM Alloys as Replacements in Defense Parts

• Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026.  America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have named the winners of the Maturation Initiative for Additive Metals Interchangeability (MIAMI) project call, which carries $12.4M in funding through the Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution office (OSW WIRE)…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-13

3D Printing Studio Makelab Scales Up for Automotive Supply Work

• Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! New York 3D printing service Makelab has moved into a 3,840-square-foot facility at MADE: Bush Terminal, a 140,000-square-foot industrial campus on Brooklyn’s Sunset Park waterfront. The company says the move gives it the logistics access, physical infrastructure and production capacity it…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-13

Fahz 2.0 brings automated design and on-demand 3D printing to personalized vases

• Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Brooklyn-based architect and computational designer Nicholas Desbiens has launched Fahz 2.0, a new version of his personalized 3D printed vase project, through a Kickstarter campaign running from October 7 to November 2, 2026. Developed under his practice, Desbiens Design Research, the…

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-12

UniFormation S10 Heads to Kickstarter with an Integrated Resin Printing and Post-Processing System

• UniFormation will launch its S10 desktop resin 3D printer on Kickstarter on October 22, 2026, with pledges starting at $999. The S10 integrates printing, washing, and drying, allowing a print...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-12

3DPOD 317: 3D Printing at ORNL, Part I – Alexander Plotkowski

• Alexander Plotkowski is all about developing new alloys. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), he’s the Group Leader for Computational Coupled Physics within the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. He’s...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-12

ASTRO America Leads $9M AFRL CRADA to Advance 3D Printed Missile Production

• The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) model for establishing private-public partnerships has started to gain traction in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry over the last couple of years. In...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-13

Oerlikon Adds ATLIX’s xBUILD 5000, Plans More for 2027

• Oerlikon has installed a new ATLIX xBUILD 5000 metal 3D printer at its facility in Huntersville, North Carolina, marking the first production deployment of the system worldwide. The machine will...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-11

The Science Lab You Can 3D Print

• Researchers at Sweden’s Umeå University have shown how desktop 3D printers can be used to make lab equipment, giving scientists a cheaper way to build tools for their research. The...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-12

UpNano Unveils 3DAR

• Austrian nanoscale 3D printing firm UpNano can make very precise 3D printers that can achieve accurate results at the sub-micron level. The company’s 2PP printers have helped it secure a...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-10

3D Printing News Briefs, October 10, 2026: Drones, WAAM, Ceramics, & More

• We have a packed 3D Printing News Briefs for you this weekend! First, America Makes celebrated the recent National Manufacturing Day with 3D printed drones, and then it’s on to...

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-08

Print&Live and iSCALE 3D Scale Up Production of Airless UGV Wheels After Combat Testing

• Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA: Software, online on October 22nd. Ukrainian developer Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D have completed field and combat trials of 3D printed airless wheels for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The wheels are already being produced in small batches and delivered regularly to combat units.…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-09

6K Additive Signs US$27.4M Loan to Expand Powder Production

• What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Metal additive manufacturing (AM) powder producer 6K Additive has signed a final loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) for a secured financing facility of up to US$27.4 million. The funds will support expansion at the company’s headquarters in Burgettstown,…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-09

Gallery in Haarlem Opens Exhibition on 3D Printed Fashion

• What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Fashion and 3D Printing, an exhibition of work by three designers who combine fashion and technology, opened on October 8 at the 3D Print Gallery in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The gallery occupies one of the cells of the Koepel, a former prison, and describes…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-09

Unfold Installs 3D Printed Aluminum Curtain as Main Gate of Design Museum Gent’s New Wing

• What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Design studio Unfold has completed Freeze Frame 82.2, a WAAM 3D printed aluminum sculpture shaped like a theatre curtain caught in motion, which now serves as the main entrance gate to DING, the new extension of Design Museum Gent in Belgium. Measuring more than…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-09

Hyperion Systems and Inspire Robotics to Deploy Recycled-Plastic 3D Printing Factory in Timor-Leste

• What should you automate next? Get ideas at AMA: Software 2026. Australian large-format additive manufacturing company Hyperion Systems has signed an agreement with Inspire Robotics to install a containerised 3D printing system in Timor-Leste later this year. The two companies describe the project as a world-first circular economy initiative, combining robotics, artificial intelligence and recycled…

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3d printing – Hackaday · 2026-10-09

Embedded 3D Printing with Liquids on a Bricked Prusa FDM Printer

• Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had suffered an explosive blow-out. For the project …read more

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-09

Mosquito Dreams Part 2: Monocoque and the Battle of Britain

• In the first article in this series, we look at how a European chair company invested in the world by pioneering mass manufacturing, modularity, bent wood, tubular steel, catalogs, composites,...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-09

PharmaTher Plans U.S. Network to 3D Print Medicines on Demand

• 3D printing medicines has often been tied to the idea of personalization, basically making a pill in the right dose, shape, or drug combination for a patient. PharmaTher is now...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-09

10 Years of Multi Jet Fusion: Onsite at HP’s Vancouver, Washington Facility

• At this year’s RAPID event in Boston, HP Additive Manufacturing Solutions celebrated ten years in the additive manufacturing (AM) market. The company ushered in the milestone with several innovations, including...

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Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers · 2026-10-08

BedazzLED Jean Jacket

• Make some 21st-century flower power — with powered flowers, with this LED jean jacket. The post BedazzLED Jean Jacket appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-08

Bendix Goes All Gas, No Brakes with AON3D’s Hylo

• Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems makes brakes, ABS systems, lane departure systems, drum brakes, and more for commercial vehicles. Vincent Bendix founded the firm in 1923 after his father was hit...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-08

The Manufacturing Race Behind the Drone Revolution

• We are in the middle of a major manufacturing shift focused on the production speed and payload capacity of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drones. A recent Manufacturing Dive article...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-08

The “Apple Effect”: Are 3D Printers Becoming Lifestyle Products?

• For most of its history, desktop 3D printing has been a technology business. Companies competed on speed, accuracy, build volume, temperature, materials and reliability. Buyers compared specifications because the machines...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-09

Solid Rocket Motors: the First Big Scaling Test for AM in the US Defense Sector

• The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has become obsessed with the opportunity for drones, and there’s certainly good reason for that. But before drones, the big focal point in AM for...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-07

How Should Businesses Build New Business? Dirk Simon Weighs In — Part 1

• Dirk Simon had deep experience in materials and chemistry before joining the 3D printing industry. Instrumental in BASF and Farsoon’s market introduction, Dirk has spent a lot of time thinking...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-07

Prusa Core One L+: A Worthy Upgrade?

• Disclosure: The Core One L+ was provided to me by Prusa3d free of charge for the purpose of this review. I have not received any other compensation. All opinions expressed...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-07

Australia’s AMCRC Welcomes Edith Cowan University as Newest Member

• Australia´s Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) has been joined by Edith Cowan University (ECU). This makes it the 12th university to join the AMCRC. Effectively, AMCRC is Australia Makes,...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-08

Prusa Research Releases New HT HOTEND

• Prusa Research is offering a new hot end for its Core One 3D printers. The new high-temperature hot end can go up to 400 °C. The swappable hot end can...

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-07

AM-Platform Joins Addliance as Core Member

• AM-Platform, a European additive manufacturing (AM) network active since 2007, has become a Core Member of Addliance, the European AM Hubs Alliance. The network connects more than 500 stakeholders across over 25 countries, and its work centers on coordinating AM development and building a shared strategic understanding of the technology in Europe. In its own…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-07

AMAZEMET Joins Fusion for Energy in Materials and Joining Collaboration for Fusion Components

• Before you invest in another tool, hear from the experts. Join AMA Software. Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMAZEMET, a Polish small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) working in advanced materials and metal additive manufacturing (metal AM). The…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-07

California’s 3D Printer Gun Law Signed for Firearm-Blocking Technology in 3D Printers

• How is AI changing 3D printing? Discover more at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation making California the second US state to mandate firearm-blocking technology in 3D printers sold within its borders.  The law, which follows a similar measure enacted in New York, carries a…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-07

Global AM Market Shows 12% Growth to $4.5BN in Q2

• Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. The global additive manufacturing market reached $4.5 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to quarterly tracking data published by Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research). Drawn from AM Research’s 3DP/AM Market…

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-06

Kickstarter is Testing the Next Wave of Desktop 3D Printing

• 3D printers are raising serious money again…on Kickstarter, that is. Over the last few months, a new group of 3D printer campaigns has attracted millions of dollars and thousands of...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-06

These 3D Printed Lattices Can Sense Damage Before Failure

• A new paper, “Full-Field Damage Monitoring in Architected Lattices Using In situ Electrical Impedance Tomography,” points to lattices being able to detect damage. This could really help composites in critical...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-06

Several New Engineering and Dental 3D Printing Materials Recommended

• In 3D printing, the printer determines how a part is made — the material determines what can be made. Rather than another general-purpose material, the new ANTINSKY lineup answers specific...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-07

How the EU is Banking on AM to Advance in the Space Race

• On September 5, German space startup Isar Aerospace achieved a major milestone, for its own reputation and for the entire space industry in the European Union (EU), when it executed...

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-06

Waterloo 3D Prints New Filter That Removes 90% of Microplastics from Water

• Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Researchers from University of Waterloo have developed a 3D printed water filtration column made from biodegradable plastic that removed 90% of microplastics from contaminated water using nothing but gravity.  The system combines surface porosity engineering with pressure-sensitive adhesive coatings to capture…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-06

Wabtec leverages Additive Manufacturing to address Europe’s aging fleet Spare Parts Challenge

• The railway sector is not known for its speed in maintenance and component replacement, but Wabtec is now running more than 150,000 3D printed parts on trains worldwide, using additive manufacturing to do what conventional casting and foundries increasingly can’t: cut weight, compress lead times, and rescue parts that would otherwise be obsolete. The safety-critical…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-06

AMPOWER Desktop 3D Printing Insights, Desktop 3D Printing Boom is Reshaping Factory Economics

• Where can AI actually help your print workflow? Find out at AMA Software, online on October 22nd. At Huafast’s 3D printing operation in Shenzhen, thousands of desktop machines manufacture toys and other products. On some of the equipment, getting a design into production still involves carrying an SD card to the printer. Wireless interference makes…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-06

File In. Clean Print Out: UniFormation’s New S10 Tackles Resin 3D Printing’s Messiest Problem

• Discover exclusive software insights at AMA: Software 2026, on October 22. Register for free! Resin 3D printing tends to look cleaner in promotion than it does in practice. The print finishes, and then the real work begins. Lifting a dripping build plate, transferring it into a wash station, waiting, moving the model to a separate…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-06

The Physical World Is AI’s Next Bottleneck

• Where is AI unlocking advantages? Explore what is possible at AMA: Software 2026. Walking into Protein Studios in Shoreditch for Sifted Summit 2026, the name brought to mind one of the defining artificial intelligence breakthroughs of the pre-ChatGPT era. In November 2020, Google DeepMind announced that AlphaFold had achieved what the organisers of the CASP…

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-05

3DPOD 316: Beehive’s Gordie Follin on 3D Printed Engines and More

• Gordie Folin had deep experience in engineering at Pratt & Whitney, GE, and GE Aviation before becoming the Chief Product Officer at Beehive Industries. Among his achievements, he served as the...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-05

How Does Nike’s 3D Printing Approach Fit Into Its Restructuring Plan?

• Shares of Nike stock hit all-time highs in late 2021 but have cratered in the years following, with the company losing nearly 80 percent of its market cap since peaking....

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-05

Oxidation Used to Create Self Lubricating CCA’s

• Oxidation affects many substances but can also be beneficial. Aluminum, for example, forms a passive oxide film that helps it resist seawater. NAB is often used in ships and forms...

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-06

Why the AM Industry Should Pay Attention to Schneider Electric’s $22.6B PTC Acquisition

• By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the...

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-05

MX3D Earns DNV’s Highest Additive Manufacturing Certification for Wire Arc 3D Printing

• Amsterdam-based MX3D announced it has become the first wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) facility in the world to receive DNV certification at the Additive Manufacturing Criticality 3 (AMC3) level. AMC3 is the highest classification DNV awards. The certificate qualifies MX3D to produce highly critical metal components for maritime, defense, and energy applications. DNV issued the…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-05

Sinto Advanced Ceramics Adds Aluminum Nitride and Silicon Nitride to Its Ceramic 3D Printing Portfolio

• Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH has added two non-oxide ceramics, aluminum nitride (AlN) and silicon nitride (Si₃N₄), to its additive manufacturing materials portfolio. The manufacturer says both materials are now available for development projects, prototypes, and industrial applications. The company had already evaluated both ceramics internally and used them in initial projects before formally adding…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-05

Native Quad Meshes Arrive in AI 3D Generation With Tripo P2.0

• Tripo AI, an artificial intelligence company building 3D foundation models and world models, has officially released Tripo P2.0, a 3D native foundation model that generates 3D assets with quad topology. The company says P2.0 is the first model in the AI 3D industry to generate quad meshes natively, removing one of the main obstacles to…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-05

REVIEW: INTAMSYS Funmat Pro 310 NEO Pairs IDEX Precision With a 100°C Chamber for Engineering Polymers

• For years, INTAMSYS has been known for its Funmat Pro HT line of industrial Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printers.  With the Funmat Pro 310 NEO, the company extends that line with an Independent Dual Extruder (IDEX) motion system and a fully enclosed, actively heated chamber that reaches 100°C, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and…

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3D Printing Industry · 2026-10-05

AMA Software 2026 Speaker Update

• The AMA Software programme continues to grow, with new speakers from Euler, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, CoreTechnologie and Kubuz joining us online on 22 October. We are also pleased to welcome Euler as an event sponsor, supporting the discussion of how software is changing additive manufacturing. The latest additions bring expertise spanning AI-driven process monitoring,…

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3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business · 2026-10-04

Bambu Lab & 7 Accessibility Organizations Launch Design Challenge for 3D Printed Assistive Devices

• In 2023, Chinese 3D printer OEM Bambu Lab launched MakerWorld, its collaborative 3D model platform. By early 2026, the platform had about 10 million monthly active users and started to...

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