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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

If you’ve been to the grocery store recently, you’ve probably noticed shrinkflation. A cereal box looks the same. The price may even be the same. But when you get home,…

Every earnings season, executives at publicly traded additive manufacturing (AM) companies face questions from Wall Street. While the companies change strategies, launch new products, or enter new markets, many of…

Longevity has become one of the biggest stories in healthcare. Every week seems to add a new announcement about an anti-aging therapy, an AI-powered drug discovery platform, or a startup…