3D Printing
Scaling Beyond 10 Printers: When Support Becomes a Bottleneck
The leap to industrial-scale 3D printing is a support problem, not a hardware problem. A 3D print farm is a centralized facility that uses a large number of 3D printers…
3D Printing Financials: Protolabs Reports a Steady 2025 as Digital Manufacturing and Metal Printing Gain Ground
Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) ended 2025 with overall revenue down slightly year over year, but its digital manufacturing and 3D printing services continued to grow. For the quarter ending in December,…
Reshoring Requires Rules of Engagement
Reshoring manufacturing in the U.S. is a stated national priority. Policymakers, industry leaders, and defense planners agree that domestic production capacity is essential for economic resilience, national security, and long-term…
3D Printed Orthopedic Device Startup Nanochon Closes $4.1M, Oversubscribed Seed Round
Two of the biggest growth opportunity areas for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry that 3DPrint.com and AM Research have long been keeping an eye on are sports and medical devices….
Thingiverse Bought by MyMiniFactory, Eyes a Revival
Thingiverse is to be acquired by MyMiniFactory. Ultimaker has sold long-neglected Thingiverse to UK-based MyMiniFactory, which also owns former Ultimaker platform YouMagine, resin/character-driven platform and slicer SoulCrafted, as well as…
When a Factory Stops Being a Building and Starts Being a Machine
Metal manufacturing still carries the layout and logic of an older industrial age. Most factories run as a collection of isolated disciplines, each with its own equipment, staff, and data….
Bridging the Gap: 2D to 3D AI in Manufacturing
For decades, the early stages of manufacturing have been defined by a simple, frustrating trade-off: you can have it precise, or you can have it fast. AI just broke that…
StoneFlower 3D Launches Laboratory-Scale 3D Printer for Construction Materials
StoneFlower 3D has launched a new 3D printer designed for laboratory-scale research and development with concrete, mortars, clays, and other advanced mineral materials. The system is intended for researchers, designers,…
Low-Temperature 3D Printed Shape-Memory Stents Activated at Body Temperature
Researchers from Waseda University, the University of Tokyo, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Southeast University, and the South China University of Technology have worked together on developing low-temperature 3D printed…
CASF: A Green Surface Finishing Technology for AM Hard Metal Alloys and Fatigue Improvement
Sugino Machine Ltd has recently completed development of a highly specialized surface-finishing technology capable of removing partially melted particles, debris, and alpha case left behind by additive-manufactured (AM) laser powder…
Material Hybrid Manufacturing is 3D Printing Conformal Batteries for Drones
Since the beginning of the decade, it seems like at least once a year, there will be a story about VC funds pouring money into some previously unknown startup that…
Takeaways From MILAM 2026: Defense’s Growing Role in Driving 3D Printing – Part I
The annual Military Additive Manufacturing Summit & Technology Showcase (MILAM 2026) once again brought together the defense sector’s top technologists, military leaders, and additive manufacturing (AM) innovators for three days…
Hardware is Dead. Here’s What Actually Wins in Additive Manufacturing.
Hardware is rapidly commoditizing across additive manufacturing. Specifications have converged. Price competition has intensified. Margins have compressed. For companies attempting to scale additive manufacturing beyond prototyping, this shift has profound…
Uptool Emerges from Stealth
Uptool has come out of stealth mode. The company has raised $6 million from prominent investors and hopes to become an indispensable tool for manufacturing. For now uptool is providing…
Lockheed Martin Ventures Make Strategic Investment in Perseus Materials’ Large-Format Composite 3D Printing Vision
The VC shift towards increased funding in geopolitical bottlenecks looks less and less like a fleeting fad and more like a tectonic shift in where global investment dollars are placing…
The Real ROI of Personalized 3D Printed Medtech in Oncology
Discover how patient-customized 3D printed devices like Stentra™ significantly reduce high toxicity-related treatment costs and improve workflow efficiencies to handle more cases more effectively overtime. Introduction: The Economic Paradox in…
“A More Complete End-to-End Solution”: Stratasys Launches Post-Processing Partnership Program
I think it’s safe to say that post-processing is no longer considered the “dirty little secret” of 3D printing that it once was, with users realizing that finishing is just…
Why SiC-Dedicated Additive Manufacturing Is Gaining Industrial Relevance
Silicon carbide is not a material problem—it’s a manufacturing one. Silicon carbide (SiC) has become a critical material across semiconductors, aerospace, energy, and defense. Its exceptional thermal stability, chemical resistance,…
3D Printing at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics
For the summer Olympics, we are well aware of the extensive 3D printing that goes on in service of track cyclists, road cyclists, and runners. In athletics, custom 3D printed…
Championing a Made-in-America Future for Additive Manufacturing
As the additive manufacturing industry continues its rapid global evolution, one theme has risen to the top of strategic conversations: the importance of strengthening domestic production to support national competitiveness…
DEVCOM Looks at 3D Printed Food Perceptions
Researchers at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center have looked at soldiers’ perceptions of 3D printed food. In an article published in the journal Future Foods, Jonathan Blutinger, Alan Wright,…
Friendshoring and Additive Manufacturing: Turning Australia’s Research Strength into Commercial Impact
Global supply chains are being re-written. After decades of globalisation driven primarily by cost efficiency, geopolitical tensions, trade disputes and pandemic-era disruptions have exposed the risks of concentrating manufacturing and…
3DPOD 292: 3D Printer Product Reviews with Alastair Jennings
Alastair Jennings has been reviewing cameras for a very long time. A chance digression led him to review one of the first RepRap 3D printers. Since then, Alastair has reviewed…
Goldilocks’ Flywheel: Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys (RCCAs) & The Race for the Future
Recently, Metalysis, Skyrora, and Thermo-Calc Solutions started to try to commercialize Tanbium. This alloy has been created for use in combustion chambers and rocket nozzles. Tanbium is a Refractory Complex…
