3D Printing Services
What 3D2GO Says About 3D Printing’s Growth in Southeast Asia
The Philippines offers an interesting case study in how 3D printing can develop in Southeast Asia, and Manila-based 3D2GO helps illustrate it. 3D printing in Southeast Asia doesn’t have to…
The Frankenservice Part 2: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
This series of articles delves into a thought experiment. What if we let go of using a few machines very optimally, but instead use lots of different machines to meet…
Why Cross-Border 3D Printing Is Closing the Speed Gap with Local Manufacturing
The fastest 3D printing supplier in your shortlist may no longer be the one closest to your office. That sounds unlikely to many engineers. For years, overseas 3D printing carried…
The Frankenservice Part 1: Print the Rainbow
So far, most service bureaus and manufacturing companies stick to what they know. Not only for OCD reasons, but gleaming lines of identical LPBF machines are also arrayed on impossibly…
Quickparts Builds a Four-Country 3D Printing Network for Space and Defense
For manufacturers trying to win more space and defense work, adding 3D printers is only part of the challenge. They also need to make the same parts to the same…
The Evolution and Future of The AM Services Market (and How We’re Tracking It)
If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a…
Malping Wants to Offer FGF PEEK as a Service
Germany-based Malping, located in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, is moving into more high performance materials for Material Extrusion. The service operates FGF and FDM high-temperature material printers, and offers parts,…
South Korea’s Lincsolution Announces AM Defense Hub as Nation is Caught in US-China Trade War
In my most recent post about RIMPAC, I noted that US military joint exercises appear to be the latest function of the US government to be leveraged by the Trump…
The Formlabs X1 Versus the HP 1200: Costing, Throughput & 30% Packing Density
We are at one of the most important moments in the powder bed fusion market’s entire history. EOS is on the retreat, retrenching itself in higher-volume industrial systems while dropping…
EBM Contract Manufacturer Zenith Tecnica Acquired by Ownership Group
New Zealand-based Zenith Tecnica has been acquired by a new ownership group. The firm was an early Electron Beam Melting (EBM) pioneer and has played an outsized role in the…
The Drone Economy Needed a Scalable Manufacturing Backbone. ADDMAN Built One
When ADDMAN closed its acquisition of Forecast 3D in January 2026, the headlines focused on fleet size and Southern California footprint. Six months later, those metrics feel almost beside the…
Continuum Powders Launches On-Demand Alloy Service for Small-Batch Production
The need to meet demand for high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) production is one of the dominant catalysts driving new manufacturing investment. One explanation for this lies in a rare dual transformation…
Incodema3D Buys 14 Metal EOS Systems, Now One of the World’s Largest Metal 3D Printer Operators
Recently, a majority stake of 3D printing service bureau Incodema3D was purchased by AFM Capital. Under new ownership, the Freeville, New York company is now using its cash-rich parent for…
amsight & toolcraft Improve AM Quality Control for the Semicap Market
As it is in the habit of doing at least once per generation, the semiconductor capital equipment (semicap) market is currently in the process of reinventing itself. This is too…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 30, 2026: RIMPAC 2026, Acquisition, Ceramic Implants, & More
We’re kicking things off with materials news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Then it’s on to a hybrid manufacturing system for a maritime exercise, an expansion of industrial…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 23, 2026: Inserts, Racing, Cultural Heritage, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, 3D People has integrated threaded inserts into its online quoting tool, AM Solutions has introduced a more compact solution for automated cleaning and…
3D Prod Buys Sculpteo
French 3D printing service Sculpteo has been bought by 3D Prod. Sculpteo was a direct Shapeways competitor with dreams of dominating the direct-to-consumer 3D printing service market. Founded in 2009,…
3D People Case Study Details Development of 3D Printed POV Camera Rig
A POV, or Point of View, camera rig, is a wearable support system that helps filmographers capture first-person footage, making the images more immersive. Some good examples of movies shot…
INDOPACOM Advanced Manufacturing Team Saves Thousands Per Week at Joint Exercise in the Philippines
In the summer of 2025, the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) opened a new advanced manufacturing facility at Schofield Barracks, the Hawaiian home of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division. INDOPACOM…
3D Printing Financials: Protolabs Starts 2026 Strong, with Metal Printing Leading
Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) kicked off 2026 with a strong quarter, showing steady growth, better margins, and improving customer engagement, even though some parts of the business, especially 3D printing in…
ExOne Cuts Costs for U.S. Customers as Printhead Production Moves to Detroit
ExOne Global Holdings, created through the 2025 integration of ExOne and voxeljet, is making changes across its U.S. operations. These include starting printhead manufacturing in the Detroit area and lowering…
ExOne + voxeljet Are Trying to Do the One Thing Customers Need Right Now: Keep Machines Running, and Rebuild Confidence
For years, ExOne and voxeljet were two of the best-known names in binder jet 3D printing, especially in sand printing for foundries. But in recent years, ExOne “got buried” inside…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 4, 2026: 3D Printed Food, Cocoa Press, & More
We’re starting off with 3D printed food in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by some business news about Cocoa Press. Then we’ll move onto a metal additive manufacturing…
Würth Additive Group & B9Creations Announce Strategic Partnership at AMUG 2026
Last week, hundreds of additive manufacturing users (and a few journalists, like me!) met in Reno, Nevada to attend the 2026 Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference. I’ll share more…
