Aerospace 3D Printing
3D Printing News Briefs, October 15, 2025: Thermal Simulation, Ceramic Fuel Cells, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Dyndrite and Ansys are collaborating on reducing risk in metal AM, and researchers from the Technical University of Denmark are 3D printing ceramic, coral-inspired…
Belgium Deepens Ties to F-35 Program Through Engine Manufacturing and 3D Printing Deal
Belgium officially received its first F-35 Lightning II fighter jet during a ceremony at the Jean Offenberg Air Base in Florennes on October 13. The event not only celebrated the…
PADT Brings Rapid Fusion LFAM to the US
Arizona-based product development and 3D printing services firm PADT is bringing UK-based Rapid Fusion to the US. PADT is a reseller of Stratasys, EOS, ZEISS, and ANSYS, as well as a…
Safran Buys Three Lithoz 3D Printers for Casting Cores
Safran Aircraft Engines has bought three Lithoz CeraFab System S65 for its Gennevilliers site. Gennevilliers is a main site for Safran to make cast and forged parts for aero engines….
Conflux Partnering with Airbus for ZEROe Heat Exchangers
Conflux Technology has collaborated with Airbus on its ZEROe project, which is Airbus’ attempt to build a hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft. Apart from being the best thing ever to happen to…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 1, 2025: Bambu Lab Store, Shape-Morphing Materials, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Bambu Lab has opened its first retail store, and Meltio is inaugurating its first international additive manufacturing reference site. A consortium has launched a…
3D Printing Waste Into Function: A Look Inside the Air Force’s Container Project with re:3D
A group of airmen at an Air Force Special Operations Command wing recently tested a new type of 3D printing setup, one that fits into a shipping container, operates off-grid,…
SwissTo12 Expands To Spain
I’m a huge SWISSto12 fan. The company is quickly expanding by using additive manufacturing to engineer better satellite Radio Frequency (RF) components. Satellite RF is one of the best applications…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 24, 2025: Survey, AM Curriculum, UHPC Rheology, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll get things started with a comprehensive post-processing survey by PostProcess Technologies. Jacksonville State University is partnering with EOS Additive Minds to develop AM…
Beehive Industries Moves Ahead with Frenzy Engine
Beehive Industries was initially a more generalized service before focusing on manufacturing its own components. The path to get there was not an easy one; the company laid off around…
NAMI & Lockheed Martin Partner to Qualify Aluminum 3D Printed Aerospace Components in KSA
The National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Company (NAMI) is a unique joint venture between DUSSUR, a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) public investment fund that focuses on strategic industries, and…
3D Printed Heat Exchanger Specialist Conflux Joins Honeywell-Led Aircraft Consortium
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has increased its technical maturity at an accelerated pace in recent years. One way that the industry can continue this positive momentum is by centering…
Ursa Major to Work With EOS On Hypersonics
Ursa Major plans to buy three AMCM M 450-4 FLX machines, in addition to the two M400 systems and an AMCM M 290-1 FLX that the company already owns. The…
Crawl/Walk. Then, Run: 3D Systems’ Aerospace & Defense VP Mike Shepard on How to Scale Military 3D Printing
Defense spending around the world has been skyrocketing in the last few years, with the 9.4 percent growth in 2024 constituting “the steepest year-on-year [YOY] rise since at least the…
From Energy to Defense: Strengthening Supply Chains Through Dual-Use Additive Manufacturing
Dual-use technologies serve more than one sector, often bridging the gap between commercial and defense applications. Additive manufacturing (AM), once seen primarily as a prototyping tool, is now maturing into…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 30, 2025: Hybrid Construction, FEA Simulation, & More
We’re covering a variety of applications in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with construction. Then it’s on to automotive 3D printing and 3D printed drones. We’ll end with…
SAE International Celebrates its 10th Anniversary of AM Aerospace Standards
Ten years into SAE’s AMS AM standards work, Bill Bihlman examines progress, pain points, and the path to wider aerospace adoption. This summer, SAE celebrated its 10th anniversary of its…
Ukraine’s New 3D Printed Bomb Points to a Fabless Future for Weapons
On Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24), the Defence Cooperation Forum. Future Warfare was held in Kyiv, which was attended by defense ministers and other leaders from across the Western world….
Air Force Awards 3D Systems $7.65M Contract to Continue Work on Large Format Metal 3D Printer
Back in September 2023, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded 3D Systems a contract worth nearly $11 million to develop a large-format metal additive manufacturing (AM) demonstrator, a…
NASA’s GRX-810 3D Printing Alloy Moves From Lab to Real Hardware
When rockets or jet engines fire up, their parts face unimaginable stress. Temperatures can rise above 2,000°F, and under that kind of heat, most metals quickly weaken or break apart….
3D Printing News Briefs, August 13, 2025: Public Utility, Rocket Engine, Brains, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, AML3D’s large-scale metal 3D printing system is now online at the largest public utility in the U.S. Moving on, Bright Laser Technologies is 3D…
“Certifications Are Just the Start”: A3D Targets Aerospace and Defense with Additive
When it comes to producing flight-critical parts, there is no room for shortcuts. That’s why A3D, a hybrid manufacturing company blending additive and traditional processes, recently took a major step…
Alloyed Business Argive Making 3D Printed Micro Turbine Engine for MGI Engineering Drone
Micro turbines are featherweight power plants that pack a punch, and are being used in many missiles, as well as an increasing number of drone platforms. In 2020, we looked…
Fortius Metals’ Jeph Ruppert on Why Wire-Based AM is Ready for Takeoff
Jeph Ruppert may have only been at Fortius Metals for a couple of months, but he knows the intricacies of additive manufacturing (AM) like someone who’s been steering the company…
