Matt Kremenetsky
Metal Powder Works & Austal USA Form Partnership Surrounding US Navy 3D Printing
There are few companies that have been more integral than Austal USA to the U.S. Navy’s ongoing additive manufacturing (AM) buildup. Among other steps that the subsidiary of the Australian…
An Operation Warp Speed for Manufacturing: a Recommendation for the 3D Printing Industry in 2026
There is no looming shortage of manufacturing workers in the United States: that’s a misconception. Rather, there’s a shortage that’s already entirely present, one which increasingly threatens to turn into…
Continuum Powders Releases Two New Copper-Nickel 3D Printing Powders
The significance of critical minerals to global geopolitics is showing no sign of slowdown as we approach the new year; if anything, it looks like 2025 was just the very…
How Kupros, Inc. Plans to Smash the Barriers to Entry for Additive Electronics
In 2024, as usual, semiconductor manufacturers topped the world’s list of highest R&D spenders. There are few spaces within global industry where R&D is more highly prioritized than semiconductor and…
Santa Cruz Startup Swellcycle Boosts Surfboard Sustainability with 3D Printing
Athletic equipment is such a ripe area for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, if only because there are just so many different sports in the world. The factors that drive…
AM Research Releases Q3 Market Data & Market Insights Report as 3D Printing Hits First-Ever $4B Quarter
It might not always feel like it, but the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is having a decent year, all things considered. As usual, AM Research (AMR) is busy analyzing and…
Titomic Lands First Order for 3D Printed Semiconductor Capital Equipment Components
One of the markets that should be a reliable source of growth well into the future for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is semiconductor capital equipment (semicap). When Additive Manufacturing…
AUKUS Installs Metal Part 3D Printed on a Deployed Submarine Tender
In a project showcasing virtually every major theme that has been driving military interest in additive manufacturing (AM) over the last decade, sailors on the U.S. Navy’s Emory S. Land-class…
3D Printing Startup Born From University of Missouri Accelerator Eyes Over $10M in 2026 Revenue
Who doesn’t love Shark Tank? I’ve actually never seen an episode, but I can at least say that I love the concept. It’s a concept that has broken through the fourth…
3D Printing Companies Win Big in LIFT’s Advanced Materials Challenge
Last year, Detroit’s LIFT, the Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) that specializes in lightweighting, announced the Advanced Materials Challenge (AMC) Program, a project call seeking advanced materials solutions for components relevant…
Alquist Launches Concrete Printer Brand & Expands Construction 3D Printing Partnership with Walmart
One of the highest-profile use cases ever in the additive construction (AC) space occurred a little over a year ago, when Walmart announced that it had partnered with Colorado’s Alquist…
Colorado School of Mines’ First Satellite Campus is Part of ASTRO’s AM Hub in Guam
As I posted about last month, the Guam Additive Materials and Manufacturing Accelerator (GAMMA), a joint project of the Applied Science and Technology Organization (ASTRO) America and the Government of…
6K Additive Goes Public on ASX
After years of negative investor sentiment in public markets, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry has seen a modest resurgence in Initial Public Offering (IPO) interest in 2025. Back in August,…
Northrop Grumman & Titomic Achieve Successful Hot Fire Test with 3D Printed Thrust Chamber
Back in April, leading Australian cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Titomic announced that the company was partnering with defense giant Northrop Grumman to test the use…
UK’s Base Materials Launches Large-Format 3D Printing Service
Tooling has been one of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry’s biggest success stories for quite some time, but the market is still in its early phases. One factor giving this…
Robotics Leader Comau to Advance AM Capabilities in EU-Funded Project
One could argue that the growth of additive manufacturing (AM) adoption proceeds at the pace at which the barriers to entry involved in post-processing are lowered. In other words, the…
AM Demand Signals: What A Ball Valve from Shell & Bonney Forge Says About 3DP in the Oil & Gas Industry
The time and resource expenditures required to qualify parts for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry can certainly be demanding. But those requirements are also reassuring. Most obviously, they’re reassuring from…
Thinking Strategically: AM Industry Consultant Tali Rosman on AM for the Defense Market
By now, more or less everyone in the AM industry seems to grasp the central role in accelerating AM adoption played by the defense sector in general, and the U.S….
Export-Import Bank of U.S. Loans $27.4M to 6K Additive to Boost U.S. Metal Powder Output
Critical minerals have overtaken news cycles all year, with U.S. tariffs and Chinese export curbs disrupting supply chains and driving new waves of investment. As recently as last week, at…
Firestorm Labs’ xCell Helps U.S. Army Train for 3D Printed Drone Missions
The U.S. Department of War (DoW) has been telling anyone who will listen that the Pentagon is making major changes to how it procures equipment. In a recent speech at…
SPARC: Authentise Makes AM-Optimized Workflow Software Available for U.S. Military Surge Production
Earlier this year, Authentise, the manufacturing workflow software provider based in the UK and Philadelphia, announced that it was working on a collaborative engineering platform called Project DDNA, a defense-oriented…
Materialise Launches New CO-AM Tools Amid New Industrial Phase in AM Software
When Materialise launched its CO-AM platform about three years ago, the company aimed to leverage cloud-based engineering capabilities to enhance the openness of the additive manufacturing (AM) software experience and…
Stratasys Adds Metal & Ceramic to Its 3D Printing Portfolio with Tritone Investment
Stratasys once began the process of launching its own metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology, Layered Powder Metallurgy (LPM). According to a 2023 Yoav Zeif interview with TCT Magazine, the company…
Ursa Major Closes $100M Series E to Supercharge Its 3D Printed Propulsion Supply Chain
You know Ursa Major, the Colorado-based specialist in propulsion technologies that leverages additive manufacturing (AM) to create a wide range of motors for customers in the defense and space industries….
