Business

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with a partnership regarding additive manufacturing quality software. Then we’ll move on to a defense acquisition and a trade secrets misappropriation case….

AML3D’s (ASX: AL3) growing U.S. defense business helped push revenue to a record for the financial year that ran from July 2025 through June 2026. The Australian metal 3D printing…

In a previous example, we looked at Cathy’s 3D printed braces business. She dropped $350,000 on machines and equipment, and the tiniest tiny difference in packing density collapsed her business….

The second half of August produced financing milestones, facility openings, and qualification results across Asia-Pacific additive manufacturing. Rongsu Technology closed a CNY 100 million Series A+ and launched a consumer…

Money continued to move into 3D printing in the second half of August. Hike Medical raised $22.5 million as it grows its 3D printed custom medical device business. Swiss additive…

6K Additive (ASX: 6KA) grew rapidly in the first half of 2026 as demand for its metal powders increased, particularly from aerospace and defense customers. The newly public company also…

For the latest development on 8/31/26, please see an update at the end of this article. Formlabs is doing a management shuffle, pointing the firm even more surely towards an…

Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand, and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment…

Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force…

Creality (HKG: 3388) sold more products in the first half of 2026, but lower margins and higher spending pushed the consumer 3D printing company into the red. At the same…

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…

HeyGears was started in 2015 and has been making value-driven Vat Polymerization systems for dental and home use. The company is marketing savvy and very driven. Now the firm has…

We’re kicking things off today with software news, as the new Meshy 7 is now live. Then we’ll move on to business, with ExOne and voxeljet now operating as a…

The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) boom was devastating for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Peaking in 2021 — and, of course, subsuming companies from industries far beyond AM —…

In this series, we’re looking at the main considerations when designing and implementing a 3D printed product. In this case, we’re using Cathy’s 3D printed brace business as an example….

ATLANT 3D has launched a new industrial-scale manufacturing system as it works to bring its unusual form of atomic-scale additive manufacturing (AM) into semiconductors, AI materials research, and advanced electronics….

The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has spent the last few years getting a lot more serious about business. Growth, profitability, consolidation, defense spending, supply chains, and scaling production now matter…

When he showed up on Google Meet for our interview, I could see that Philip Pounds, co-founder of Unlayered 3D, was seated shotgun in a moving car. I wasn’t sure…

After Bedrock 3D split from BASF, the company was independent but still a little unsure about its future. The former Innofil3D operation, later dubbed Forward AM Technologies Netherlands, was BASF’s main…

We’re starting with metal 3D printing business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as SBO is expanding its capacity in the US and the UK, and Continuum Powders is…

Metal additive manufacturing company 3DEO is being dismantled. On Tuesday, August 18, the remaining machinery at the company’s Torrance, California, factory went up for sale in an online auction. The…

Let’s look at what matters when we make things that matter. What considerations are there, what is important, what affects cost? Look at the levers in laser powder bed fusion,…

Creality (HKG: 3388) is expecting to report a loss for the first half of 2026, just months after the 3D printer maker went public in Hong Kong. In a profit…

The first half of August brought a wave of factory plans, plant openings, and qualification work across the Asia-Pacific additive manufacturing market. Highlights include a RMB 200 million print farm…