Matt Kremenetsky
Ruggedized: How USMC Innovation Officer Matt Pine Navigates 3D Printing in the Military
Disclaimer: Matt Pine’s views are not the views of the Department of Defense nor the U.S. Marine Corps Throughout this decade thus far, the military’s adoption of additive manufacturing (AM)…
U.S. Congress Calls Out 3D Printing in Proposal for Commercial Reserve Manufacturing Network
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee moved the FY 2026 defense bill forward to the House floor. Included in the legislation is a $131 million proposal for…
Transforming From Tourist to Native: Duro CEO Michael Corr Explains Why the Company Rebuilt its PLM Software on AI
In these early innings of the AI boom, many market analysts have expressed concern that AI spend has gotten too far ahead of the technology’s proven ability to deliver significant…
Have it Your Way: Spokbee Founder & CEO Mac Cameron Makes the Case for CPQ Software in 3D Printing
Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software automates the process of tailoring goods and/or services to customer specifications, determining the price of the product configuration, and providing the customer with a quote…
Robotics Company Comau Forms Partnership with 3D Printing OEM Roboze
Recently, the Italian robotics original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Comau announced the multifaceted approach it has taken to penetrating the additive manufacturing (AM) market. Comau, jointly owned by One Equity Partners and…
Another One in the Books! Stratolaunch Awards Ursa Major a $32.9M Contract for 16 3D Printed Engines
Last week, I published an interview with Ursa Major’s COO, Nick Doucette, and its Head of Marketing and Strategic Communications, Savanah Bray, in which they detailed the internal sentiment at…
E-Beam OEM Wayland Additive Partners with USC Racing to 3D Print Titanium Exhaust Collector
Every year, standards organization SAE International holds a competition called Formula SAE, in which students from both undergraduate and graduate programs design, build, and race small formula-style race cars. For…
Hyperion Robotics, UK National Grid to Use 3D Printing for Low-Carbon Substation Foundations
Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish provider of additive construction (AC) solutions specializing in low-carbon infrastructure projects, has partnered with UK utilities giant National Grid to test the use of 3D printed…
Firing on All Cylinders: Ursa Major Discusses One of the Most Pivotal Quarters in Company History
It doesn’t make 3D printers, supply additive manufacturing (AM) feedstock, provide design software, or print parts upon request from the general marketplace. But none of this makes Ursa Major any…
Velo3D and US Navy Sign R&D Agreement to Characterize 3D Printing Materials for Aerospace
After going through major changes last year, including being delisted from the NYSE and being acquired by Arrayed Additive, Silicon Valley-based metal 3D printer OEM Velo3D has been picking up…
DARPA Backs Research Project to Speed Up Qualification of DoD’s 3D Printed Parts
About a year ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a funding opportunity called SURGE: Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance. As with so much of what the…
Ingersoll Machine Tools Makes Deployable 3D Printer for U.S. Army
Amidst the U.S. military’s years-long additive manufacturing (AM) ramp-up, the U.S. Army has frequently turned to Rockford, Illinois’ Ingersoll Machine Tools to help produce custom hardware: most notably, components for…
Comau’s Robotic Systems Take on 3D Printing Applications
Lately, Comau, the Italy-based manufacturer of robotic systems owned by One Equity Partners and automaker Stellantis, has formed a growing number of partnerships with companies in the additive manufacturing (AM)…
GKN Aerospace Adds Interspectral’s AM Explorer Software to its 3D Printing Workflow
GKN Aerospace, the UK-based leading manufacturer of aircraft components, has adopted AM Explorer, a platform made by Swedish software firm Interspectral, at its Centre of Excellence for Engine Systems in…
Talent Needed: EOS’s Fabian Alefeld & the US Navy’s Justin Rettaliata Discuss Why They’re Teaming Up to Train the 3D Printing Workforce
No amount of attention that the additive manufacturing (AM) industry devoted to the challenge of workforce development could be considered “too much” these days. Nowhere is this truer, perhaps, than…
3D Printing, AI & the Future of Traceability: University of Illinois’s Bill King on 3D Printer “Fingerprints”
One of the most powerful aspects of academic research is its propensity to lead to discoveries that weren’t even on the researchers’ radar at the start of a given investigation….
Reimagining Manufacturing: 3D Printing Poised to Play a Big Role in MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently launched a major new program called the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), “an Institute-wide effort” that will harness all the university’s capacity for…
Something from Nothing: How 3D Printing is Helping Australia Become a Global Force in Manufacturing
Out at Sea If a team of engineers were tasked with creating the ideal hypothetical environment for testing advanced manufacturing’s potential, they might come up with something that looks a…
Recipe for an AM Cluster: ADDIMAT’s Zubizarreta on the Making of the Spanish AM Ecosystem
One of the most significant themes in the global manufacturing sector throughout the last decade has been the nurturing of existing economic clusters and the seeding of new ones by…
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing & America Makes to Develop Aluminum Powder Dataset
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Inc. (NAMI), the Long Beach-based end-to-end metal additive manufacturing (AM) firm, has announced that the company is partnering with the Manufacturing USA Institute America Makes to develop…
Made-in-America Rugged 3D Printer Launched by Chicago Additive, Backed by NAVWAR
Chicago Additive, an end-to-end additive manufacturing (AM) solutions company based in Northwest Indiana, has announced the pre-launch of its AMOS 3D printer. This ruggedized FDM desktop printer was originally developed…
Stratasys Acquires Forward AM’s Operations and Assets, Launches Mass Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) pioneer Stratasys announced via LinkedIn that the company has acquired Forward AM GmbH‘s “key assets and operations,” a move that entails the two brands’ joint launch of…
Metal Powder Supplier Elementum 3D Added to $46B Air Force Contract
Elementum 3D, a Colorado-based developer and supplier of metal powders used in additive manufacturing (AM), announced that the company has been added to the vendors list in the fourth on-ramp…
AIRSYS Invests $40M in New HQ With “One of the World’s Largest” 3D Printing Factories
AIRSYS, a leading supplier of cooling solutions hardware, has announced that it’s investing $40 million to establish its new global headquarters in Woodruff, South Carolina, not far from its current…
