3D Printing
How Should Businesses Build New Business? Dirk Simon Weighs In — Part 1
Dirk Simon had deep experience in materials and chemistry before joining the 3D printing industry. Instrumental in BASF and Farsoon’s market introduction, Dirk has spent a lot of time thinking…
How the EU is Banking on AM to Advance in the Space Race
On September 5, German space startup Isar Aerospace achieved a major milestone, for its own reputation and for the entire space industry in the European Union (EU), when it executed…
Several New Engineering and Dental 3D Printing Materials Recommended
In 3D printing, the printer determines how a part is made — the material determines what can be made. Rather than another general-purpose material, the new ANTINSKY lineup answers specific…
These 3D Printed Lattices Can Sense Damage Before Failure
A new paper, “Full-Field Damage Monitoring in Architected Lattices Using In situ Electrical Impedance Tomography,” points to lattices being able to detect damage. This could really help composites in critical…
Kickstarter is Testing the Next Wave of Desktop 3D Printing
3D printers are raising serious money again…on Kickstarter, that is. Over the last few months, a new group of 3D printer campaigns has attracted millions of dollars and thousands of…
Why the AM Industry Should Pay Attention to Schneider Electric’s $22.6B PTC Acquisition
By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the…
Oxidation Used to Create Self Lubricating CCA’s
Oxidation affects many substances but can also be beneficial. Aluminum, for example, forms a passive oxide film that helps it resist seawater. NAB is often used in ships and forms…
How Does Nike’s 3D Printing Approach Fit Into Its Restructuring Plan?
Shares of Nike stock hit all-time highs in late 2021 but have cratered in the years following, with the company losing nearly 80 percent of its market cap since peaking….
3DPOD 316: Beehive’s Gordie Follin on 3D Printed Engines and More
Gordie Folin had deep experience in engineering at Pratt & Whitney, GE, and GE Aviation before becoming the Chief Product Officer at Beehive Industries. Among his achievements, he served as the…
Stratasys vs. Bambu Lab: Why Europe and the U.S. Reached Different Results, Part II
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series by Xu Fanglei examining the technology and patent issues behind the Stratasys-Bambu Lab dispute. Part 1 looked at the $27.6…
Bambu Lab & 7 Accessibility Organizations Launch Design Challenge for 3D Printed Assistive Devices
In 2023, Chinese 3D printer OEM Bambu Lab launched MakerWorld, its collaborative 3D model platform. By early 2026, the platform had about 10 million monthly active users and started to…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 3, 2026: Hypersonics, Hotends, & More
We’re starting off with defense in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Titomic was awarded a $5 million U.S. defense contract, and VulcanForms announced a partnership with Specter Aerospace…
Mosquito Dreams Part 1: Thonet, A World History
As a child, I lived in Kenya for a while. When we went to Mombasa, wafting breezes, crunchy white powder that sounds like snow underfoot, beaches bordered by many unseen…
ADDMAN to Buy Up to $10.8M in Nickel 718 Powder from 6K Additive Over 30 Months
After years of buildup, we’re finally starting to see what the US metal additive manufacturing (AM) market could look like at scale. To be sure, it’s still not quite there,…
Zetamix to Make Metal Parts on Board Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier
Zetamix‘s metal 3D printing solution is to be used aboard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The $3 billion carrier, built in 2002, has a complement of 1350 and…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 1, 2026: Defense, Enclosures, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with defense news, first from Massivit and then from AML3D. Then we’ll move on to U.S. manufacturing of a new large-format LPBF…
South Korea’s Lincsolution Lands Hanwha Defense Deal as Hanwha Invests Billions in US
I recently wrote about how the South Korean additive manufacturing (AM) firm Lincsolution is building an aerospace and defense hub, part of the company’s construction of “the largest AM facility in…
MODGrid: “Gridfinity for in Your Pants”
Gridfinity, of course, is a 3D printed configurable base plate system. Print the right-sized base plate, then print boxes or scissor holders that click onto it to organize your kitchen,…
Creality Goes Pro with Sermoon P1S 3D Scanner
From making millions of value-engineered Prusa clones, Creality really has aggressively pivoted to more complex machines. The company has made strides forward in software, and the Ender’s of yore is…
What’s Pushing 3D Printing Into Rail Production?
For years, simply proving that a rail part could be 3D printed was a big step. Now, that is becoming the easy part. Rail companies want to know whether those…
AM Demand Signals: Global Grid Resilience, Part 2
The nature of the AI boom seems no clearer despite its persistence, yet it persists. For one thing, as I’ve discussed before, people really seem to dislike data centers. American…
Carbon Wins Patent Battle Over Dual-Cure 3D Printing Technology in Europe
Carbon has successfully defended a key European patent covering its dual-cure 3D printing technology after a multi-year challenge from a competitor. The California-based additive manufacturing company announced on September 28…
Building Profiles in the Additive Print Services Market – Market Research Beyond AI Scraping
AM Research New market research: AM Research is building its new Additive Manufacturing Services Market 2.0 model. View the report and preorder here → In case you haven’t heard, at…
California Signs 3D Printer Gun-Blocking Bill Into Law
California’s 3D printer firearm-blocking bill is now law. But the version signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is quite different from the bill introduced earlier this year. Newsom signed Assembly Bill…
