3D Printers
Protolabs Installs Second Axtra3D Lumia X1 to Meet Growing Demand for Photopolymers
Digital manufacturing leader Protolabs offers many services, including injection molding, CNC machining, and 3D printing, which makes it versatile enough to serve a wide range of customer needs. While the…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 19, 2025: Topology Optimization, Bike Saddle, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Farsoon Technologies has reached a milestone of 150 large-format metal 3D printing systems being sold globally. Snapmaker unveiled a new 3D printer, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 16, 2025: Patents, Pure Copper, K-12 Education, & More
We’re starting with patent news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as PostProcess Technologies has reached an exciting milestone of 50 patents granted! Moving on to 3D printers, Fraunhofer IFAM…
Nikon SLM Solutions Sells SLM 500 to Primary Weapon Systems to Expand Suppressor Production
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…
ValCUN Enters U.S. Market with Minerva Metal 3D Printer Installation at Johns Hopkins University
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,…
South Korea 3D Prints a Titanium Space Tank and Freezes It to Prove It Works
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…
Stratasys Buys Nexa3D Assets as Market Shifts From Startups to Giants
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,…
HP and Firestorm Labs Form Partnership to Use Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printers in Deployable Factories
HP Inc., maker of a range of additive manufacturing (AM) solutions including the Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) ecosystem, has announced a partnership with Firestorm Labs, a developer of containerized, deployable…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 2, 2025: Copper Alloys, Defense Manufacturing, & More
We’re starting off with metals in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Farsoon has unveiled a large-scale AM solution for copper alloys, and Meltio used its wire-laser metal solution to…
Reinventing Reindustrialization: Why NAVWAR Project Manager Spencer Koroly Invented a Made-in-America 3D Printer
It has become virtually impossible to regularly follow additive manufacturing (AM) industry news and not stumble across the term “defense industrial base” (DIB), a concept encompassing all the many diverse…
What Digital G-O-D Reveals About the State of Art, AI, and 3D Printing Today
Digital G-O-D, an art exhibition held in Amsterdam, brought together technology, creativity, and a global mix of artists. Hosted by the collective METAMO and supported by printing innovator Mimaki, the…
EOS in India: AM’s Rising Star
EOS is doubling down on India. With a growing base of aerospace startups, new government policies, and a massive engineering workforce, India is quickly becoming one of the most important…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 25, 2025: R&D Materials, 3D Printed Veneers, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, 3DXTECH has launched a program that gives customers early access to experimental materials, and the first Lithoz CeraFab Multi 2M30 in the Czech Republic…
The Ethics of Reviewing 3D Printers and How I Go About Them
What makes a good review? Technical knowledge? Image quality? Verbiage? Honesty? Yes, but there’s an order. As a reviewer of 3D printers, I have wanted to prioritize not making “ads”…
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…
Nike’s 3D Printed Air Max 1000 Drops Summer 2025—and Influencers Already Have It
Nike’s 3D printed sneaker is officially getting a release. The Air Max 1000 Oatmeal, made using Zellerfeld’s 3D printing technology, is set to drop in Summer 2025, with a retail…
Creality Falcon A1: A Productive Consumer Laser?
Disclosure: The Falcon A1 was provided to me by Creality free of charge for the purpose of this review. I have not received any other compensation. All opinions expressed are…
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…
UltiMaker Launches S6 3D Printer for Applications in Education, Defense, & Manufacturing
UltiMaker launched its professional S5 3D printer back in 2018, and since then has also released the S7 and, just a few months ago, the S8. Today, the company continues…
BCN3D Files for Bankruptcy Despite Recent Milestones—But Rescue Deal May Be Underway
For the latest updates (as of June 2, 2025), see the end of this article. Spanish 3D printer manufacturer BCN3D has filed for voluntary bankruptcy, according to Crónica Global. Based…
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….
Touch, Motion, Intelligence: How MIT CSAIL Is Reimagining 3D Printing
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is helping define a new era of 3D printing, one where printed parts can feel like fabric, move like muscles, and carry…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 28, 2025: Tabletop Concrete 3D Printer, Polyester Resin, & More
We’re starting things off with business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Axtra3D named Maquinser a professional reseller. A tabletop concrete 3D printer has been developed for materials research,…
The Robot That Walked Off the Printer
In the Soft Systems Group at the University of Edinburgh, researchers 3D printed a tiny soft robot, then watched as it walked straight off the machine that made it. This…
