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Crawl/Walk. Then, Run: 3D Systems’ Aerospace & Defense VP Mike Shepard on How to Scale Military 3D Printing
Defense spending around the world has been skyrocketing in the last few years, with the 9.4 percent growth in 2024 constituting “the steepest year-on-year [YOY] rise since at least the…
Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2025: When Boring Beats Brilliant
“While Western companies fight for novelty, China fights for acceptance.” This observation, scribbled in my iPhone note app during Formnext Asia Shenzhen, held from August 26 to 28, captures what…
Dental 3D Printing Specialist SprintRay Acquires EnvisionTEC’s Dental Portfolio
According to the most recent Additive Manufacturing Research (AMR) report on the AM dental market, the size of that market could nearly double by 2033, indicating that the 3D printing…
LibWork 3D Prints Residential Home in Japan with Soil & Crane WASP
Construction firm LibWork has 3D printed a home using WASP 3D printers and soil in Japan. The home is roughly 100 m² and was made using a Crane WASP printer….
How Portland’s Old Town Is Becoming a Footwear Innovation Hub
Portland’s Old Town district is taking on a new role as a hub for footwear and apparel innovation. The project, called Made in Old Town (MiOT), is a 323,000-square-foot campus…
Inside AM’s Quiet, Strategic Revolution: An Interview with Dyndrite Founder, Harshil Goel
Founded in 2016 by Harshil Goel, Dyndrite has been clear in its mission from the start: namely, “to fundamentally change how geometry is created, transformed, and transmitted on a computer.”…
Pac-Dent Buys Ackuretta
Dental practitioner supply firm Pac-Dent has bought Ackuretta, a chair-side dental 3D printing startup that has a file-to-patient solution in place. Their all-in-one system combines resins, software, and printers with…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 3, 2025: AMUG Registration, 3D Models, & More
First up in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs: registration is officially open for the 2026 AMUG Conference, which will be held in a new location this year. Then, it’s on…
HP Dives Deeper Into Orthopedic 3D Printing at AOPA 2025 With New PA 11
HP is announcing that it will have a new generation of PA 11. With the 3D HR PA 11 Gen2 material, the company will offer up to 80% material reusability,…
Artec 3D’s AS20 Software Update Supercharges Its Entire Scanner Lineup
Artec 3D, a Luxembourg-based leader in 3D scanning, has just unveiled Artec Studio 20 (AS20), and it’s more than just another software update. According to the company, this version is…
AMS Focus: The Business Story Behind AM’s Next Chapter
2025 has been a reset year for 3D printing, with deals closed, assets changing owners, and new initial public offerings (IPOs) signaling where growth may come from next. If the…
Understanding The Risks of Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is an emergent practice where people use AI tools and Large Language Model (LLM) Chatbots to write code. An experienced developer could accelerate their work considerably through vibe…
From Energy to Defense: Strengthening Supply Chains Through Dual-Use Additive Manufacturing
Dual-use technologies serve more than one sector, often bridging the gap between commercial and defense applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), once seen primarily as a prototyping tool, is now maturing into…
AI, Robotics, and 3D Printing for Mass Customization: Dandy’s Dental Revolution
Dandy wants to do for dental labs what modern factories did for smartphones: make high-quality products, fast, at scale, without losing the custom fit patients need. In an interview with…
3DPOD 269: AM in Japan, Software for AM, and more with Peter Rogers, Layered Ltd.
Peter Rogers is Australian but has worked in Japan since 2009. He has held roles at a Japanese 3D Printing firm, at Velo3D, and at Autodesk. Today, he consults for…
Modular Student-Built Open Source Clura Enclosure for Safer Desktop 3D Printing
For the past year, maker Fabrizio Blasio has been working with a couple of his fellow aerospace engineering bachelor’s students at TU Delft in the Netherlands to develop an affordable,…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 30, 2025: Hybrid Construction, FEA Simulation, & More
We’re covering a variety of applications in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with construction. Then it’s on to automotive 3D printing and 3D printed drones. We’ll end with…
The Creality IPO Effects & Scenarios
Creality is slated to go public on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The value-engineered desktop Material Extrusion maker has branched out. It now makes sophisticated K1 and K2 desktop systems,…
Clear Aligners in Focus: What’s Changing in 2025
Align Technology’s latest earnings showed slower growth for Invisalign, but the story is bigger than one company. The market for clear aligners is changing, and those changes matter for the…
AM Can Evolve to Drive Entire Markets, and the Dental Industry is Proof
In an era of challenges to the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, mostly driven by the technology’s relatively high cost at a time when financing production equipment is more expensive, many…
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