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Latest 3D printing stories, updates, and analysis tagged additive manufacturing.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series by Xu Fanglei examining the technology and patent issues behind the Stratasys-Bambu Lab dispute. Part 1 looked at the $27.6...
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• We’re starting off with defense in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Titomic was awarded a $5 million U.S. defense contract, and VulcanForms announced a partnership with Specter Aerospace...
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• After years of buildup, we’re finally starting to see what the US metal additive manufacturing (AM) market could look like at scale. To be sure, it’s still not quite there,...
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• As a child, I lived in Kenya for a while. When we went to Mombasa, wafting breezes, crunchy white powder that sounds like snow underfoot, beaches bordered by many unseen...
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! Myrava, formerly known as Ricoh 3D for Healthcare, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for a patient-specific 3D printed bolus used in radiation therapy. The clearance…
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! UK launch services company Skyrora has completed a 45-second static hot-fire test of a scaled-down version of its Skyrora XL orbital launch vehicle. The test took place at Machrihanish,…
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! Pennsylvania-based metal powder producer 6K Additive has signed a 30-month long-term agreement to supply Nickel 718 alloy powder to ADDMAN Engineering (ADDMAN), a Florida-headquartered additive manufacturing (AM) and machining…
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe, a contract manufacturer specializing in additively manufactured technical ceramics, has added aluminum nitride (AlN) and silicon nitride (Si₃N₄) to its material portfolio for ceramic 3D…
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• Join 3D Printing Industry’s online AMA Software event on 22 October 2026 to explore how AI and software are changing manufacturing, with speakers from NVIDIA, Autodesk and Materialise. American manufacturers are accumulating orders while many smaller factories struggle to find enough work. In Xometry’s 2027 Manufacturing Outlook, 77% of manufacturers report larger production backlogs than…
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• The 3D-printed KeyboaStick joystick by FunOrNothing instantly makes a boring keyboard fun, and a fun keyboard awesome. The post DLC Joystick for Your Keyboard appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Gridfinity, of course, is a 3D printed configurable base plate system. Print the right-sized base plate, then print boxes or scissor holders that click onto it to organize your kitchen,...
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• I recently wrote about how the South Korean additive manufacturing (AM) firm Lincsolution is building an aerospace and defense hub, part of the company’s construction of “the largest AM facility in...
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• In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with defense news, first from Massivit and then from AML3D. Then we’ll move on to U.S. manufacturing of a new large-format LPBF...
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• Zetamix’s metal 3D printing solution is to be used aboard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The $3 billion carrier, built in 2002, has a complement of 1350 and...
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! Engineers at the University of Glasgow and the University of Sydney have made 3D printed metamaterials that can show where they are being damaged and follow that damage as…
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• Hear from the experts shaping additive manufacturing software. Join 3D Printing Industry on 22 October for AMA: Software 2026, featuring exclusive presentations, panels and live Q&A! Singapore propeller maker Mencast Marine has secured certification from Lloyd’s Register and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for what the two classification societies recognize as the world’s first…
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• AM Research New market research: AM Research is building its new Additive Manufacturing Services Market 2.0 model. View the report and preorder here → In case you haven’t heard, at...
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• Carbon has successfully defended a key European patent covering its dual-cure 3D printing technology after a multi-year challenge from a competitor. The California-based additive manufacturing company announced on September 28...
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• The nature of the AI boom seems no clearer despite its persistence, yet it persists. For one thing, as I’ve discussed before, people really seem to dislike data centers. American...
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• For years, simply proving that a rail part could be 3D printed was a big step. Now, that is becoming the easy part. Rail companies want to know whether those...
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• From making millions of value-engineered Prusa clones, Creality really has aggressively pivoted to more complex machines. The company has made strides forward in software, and the Ender’s of yore is...
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• A Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) has maintained Carbon’s European Patent No. 3158400 in amended form, closing a proceeding that ran through two levels of EPO review over roughly three and a half years. Titled “Methods of Producing Three-Dimensional Objects from Materials Having Multiple Mechanisms of Hardening,” the patent covers a…
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• US-based 3D printer manufacturer 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) posted $94.6 million in second-quarter (Q2) 2026 revenue, down 0.3% Y/Y from $94.8 million a year earlier. The operating loss narrowed to $10.6 million from $15.4 million in the prior-year period, with lower operating expenses, supported by more than $60 million in annualized cost savings, contributing to…
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• MX3D, an Amsterdam-based company that builds robotic metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems, has received a Certificate of Qualification from DNV at the Additive Manufacturing Criticality 3 (AMC3) level for its wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) facility. The certificate was issued under the DNV-ST-B203 standard and applies to metal parts used in maritime, defense, and energy…
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• The additive manufacturing market may be growing again, but one of the more interesting numbers behind that recovery has little to do with selling 3D printers. AM services generated nearly...
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• California’s 3D printer firearm-blocking bill is now law. But the version signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is quite different from the bill introduced earlier this year. Newsom signed Assembly Bill...
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• Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Mississippi State University are building a 3D printer that deposits continuous fiber and polymer in the same part while using machine learning to check part quality as it prints. The National Science Foundation is funding the work through its Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program under the title “MRI: Track 1…
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• Italian printer manufacturer Kentstrapper has 3D printed an acoustic panel that achieved Class A sound absorption in standardized testing. The manufacturer produced it for REVERSING, a University of Florence research project developing retrofit facades for schools and offices. Tested in a reverberation chamber according to ISO 354, the panel reached a weighted sound absorption coefficient…
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• 3D printer OEM Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) announced its financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2026. Revenue for the quarter was $137.6 million, down 0.3% Y/Y from $138.1 million and up 3.7% Q/Q from $132.7 million in the previous quarter. Higher Services revenue, driven primarily by on-demand parts production, largely offset the decline in…
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• Addireen, a Shenzhen-based developer of metal additive manufacturing (metal AM) systems, has started operations at a new facility in Zhanggong District, Ganzhou, China. With capacity to produce up to 50 metal AM systems per month, the site supports a wider rollout of the company’s green laser equipment for pure copper, copper alloys, and thermal management…
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• Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Johns Hopkins University have developed a handheld tool built around a 3D printed microfluidic device. It collects living cells from selected spots on freshly excised tissue and leaves the rest of the tissue available for pathology. The team says the method could support earlier detection of…
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• The problem with US manufacturing is the productivity growth rate. Depending on the source, US manufacturing productivity has either been flat or slightly declined since 2010. Before going any further...
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• A 3D printed part can generate a lot of information. The challenge is keeping track of it. Manufacturers need to know which design was used, what material went into the...
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