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The shoe of the summer is undoubtedly the flip-flop. Easy on, easy off, your feet won’t get sweaty because there’s not much material, and they’re available in a veritable rainbow…

Remember Villeneuve’s Dune? The pursuit of rare and powerful spice (“venture alpha“) brought heroes into deserts hiding sandworms and shifting dangers (for those unfamiliar, think of a high-stakes quest through…

Primary Weapons Systems (PWS) is a Boise, Idaho-based manufacturer of suppressors, firearms, and related components. A subsidiary of Vigilant Gear and a sister company to aftermarket Glock slide manufacturer Lone…

In the government contracting process, public sector agencies often issue a letter of intent (LOI) in the lead-up to forging formal deals with specific companies for future delivery of goods…

Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced a new bill in the U.S. Senate that would ban the online distribution of digital files used to 3D print firearms. The proposed legislation, called…

Youngstown-based JuggerBot 3D makes medium-format pellet printers. The firm is also doing some exciting defense work with a combination of Direct Ink Write, thermosets and pellet printing, and received a…

We keep coming back to China’s foray into space 3D printing—and there’s a good reason for that. The country’s space program continues to turn great ideas into working technology, proving…

Brussels-headquartered trade organization the European Association of Manufacturing Technologies (CECIMO) has issued a brief paper entitled “Manifesto for a Competitive European Additive Manufacturing [AM] Sector”, outlining what the group considers…

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with stories about partnerships, first between Sandvik and Additive Industries for powder supply, and then between AMT PostPro and TriMech Group for…

Belgian metal 3D printing startup ValCUN now has a Minerva metal 3D printer installed at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University. The Molten Metal Deposition (MMD) system, which was released in 2023,…

At a four-day robotics workshop that the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy held at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, university students from a number of…

Building hardware for space is not easy. It needs to be light, strong, and capable of surviving extreme environments, like the bitter cold and vacuum of space. Now, a South…

In less than five years, startup New Frontier Aerospace (NFA) has successfully tested a new kind of rocket engine that could make spaceflight cleaner, faster, and more reusable. In June…

Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease is difficult. Often, early symptoms of the progressive neurological condition may be overlooked, or mistaken for signs of aging. Early diagnosis can help save lives and improve…

Stratasys has acquired a collection of assets from Nexa3D, a startup that aimed to make high-speed resin 3D printing more practical for production use. While the announcement was relatively quiet,…

The first half of 2025 has been marked by a clear shift in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Companies are no longer just focused on developing new tech by themselves….

With veganism on the rise, more eco-conscious consumers, and more of a worry about where all the things we consume come from, a lot of firms are taking a hard…

In 2017, AM Research (then known as SmarTech Publishing) published what probably seemed like an odd research note to the AM industry at the time – an opportunity brief and opinion…