Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing’s Next Chapter: From Prototype Tool to Operating Model

Additive manufacturing is shedding its legacy reputation. While it remains the go-to for prototyping, its potential now extends beyond. Today, it’s increasingly used to support real production requirements, helping teams…

Industrial Additive Manufacturing Reaches Its Most Important Inflection Point

Additive manufacturing is entering the most consequential period in its evolution. After years of experimentation and uneven adoption, the industry is showing renewed momentum, shaped by supply-chain pressures, and a…

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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…

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…

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Engineering Readiness for the Most Demanding Defense Programs

As additive manufacturing moves from innovation to execution, success is no longer defined by machine capability alone. For the most demanding U.S. defense programs, additive manufacturing must be engineered, qualified,…

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Scaling DLP: How Visitech Moves Production Beyond the “Printer Farm”

With hundreds of light engines shipped in 2025, Visitech is leveraging its new Texas facility and scrolling DLP architecture to redefine industrial throughput. By achieving up to 20 times the…

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Cybersecurity: A Necessity in a Maturing Additive Manufacturing Industry

Additive Manufacturing is no longer an experimental technology operating on the margins of industrial production. Over the past decade, it has become an integral part of how OEMs design, produce,…

3D Printing News Briefs, January 21, 2026: Scanning Inspection, Manufacturing Upskilling, & More

In 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with 3D scanning news from Artec 3D. Then, Nanoscribe opened a demolab in Shanghai, and The Ohio State University Center for Design and…

The AM Adoption Problem No One Models

Through its short history, Additive Manufacturing has been presented to the investment community as a classic high growth technology story. Manufacturing is a multi-trillion-dollar market. Even a small percentage looks…

3D Printing News Briefs, January 15, 2026: Project Call, Sports Medicine, Aluminum Alloy, & More

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, America Makes announced the winners of a $1.1 million Project Call, Austal USA named a new Vice President for Business Development and External Affairs,…

America’s Manufacturing Crossroads: 2026 Is The Year Excuses Run Out

Authored by Seurat’s CEO, Co-Founder & Co-Inventor, James DeMuth As 2026 begins, one truth is impossible to dismiss: manufacturing is not an industrial legacy. It’s national infrastructure, and the United…

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Top 10 3DPrint.com Stories of 2025: Kickstarter, Consumer Goods, Bankruptcy, & More

As Vanesa Listek wrote, last year was a major turning point for additive manufacturing (AM), as the industry is working to sort itself out. Customers want proven use cases and…

3D Printing Predictions for 2026: Scaling AM Through Software

For several years, we have seen additive manufacturing software play a more central role in our industry. LPBF machines achieve higher yields and can produce thinner-walled parts thanks to the…

3D Printing News Briefs, December 20, 2025: Gas Turbine Hardware, Build Settings, & More

We’re starting this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs with news from Mears Machine and Exentis Group about large orders they’ve delivered and received. Then, a student at Kennesaw State University…

3D Printing News Briefs, December 17, 2025: Standards, Ballistics, Dental Aligners, & More

Today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is a bit of a mixed bag, including stories about standards, ballistics 3D printing, dental aligners, and more. Read on for all the details! DNV…

Registration Rates for Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2026 Increasing This Week

It may not seem like it, but February is right around the corner, and that means it’s almost time for our 9th annual Additive Manufacturing Strategies event. Returning to New…

3D Printing News Briefs, December 6, 2025: AutoSmooth, Tissue Engineering, Micro-Optics, & More

We’re starting with post-processing news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as AM Solutions shares the latest results from the AutoSmooth Project. CONSTRUCT3D launched a new 3D printer, while 3DXTECH…

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…

3D Printing News Briefs, November 29, 2025: Submarine Industrial Base, Running Shoe, & More

In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ve got more news from Dyndrite, which has launched the NXG Slice Viewer for Nikon SLM Solutions. Farsoon Europe has news to share…

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….

3D Printing News Briefs, November 27, 2025: Awards, Sand Binder Jetting, Tabletop Gaming, & More

To all those who celebrate, happy Thanksgiving! In today’s holiday 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with some exciting news: the winners of this year’s Formnext Awards! Then, we’ll…

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Europe’s Reshoring Moment: How AM Can Power Industrial Recovery

For years, Europe has seen much of its manufacturing base shrink as production has moved overseas and global competition has increased. Now, the region is trying to bring that work…

AMS Quotes From the Host, Part 2: An Interview with Layered Ltd’s CEO, Peter Rogers

Peter Rogers has held many different titles within the additive manufacturing (AM) industry over the years, with the latest title being CEO of Layered Ltd, the consultancy Peter founded, headquartered…

Advanced Manufacturing Reinvents Defense Castings, Strengthens Industrial Base

The convergence of the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, compounded by rising geopolitical pressures, calls for a more agile and resilient supply chain. In response, the Department of War (DoW)…