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Update, September 21, 2026: This article has been updated with a statement from Bambu Lab responding to the verdict, along with additional information about the company’s ongoing patent challenges against…

Dirk Simon had already spent years in the chemicals industry before joining and pioneering BASF‘s 3D printing effort. We get to hear how that firm looked at 3D printing and…

The first half of September brought fresh investment and expansion activity across Asia-Pacific’s additive manufacturing sector. China’s Xinjinghe secured funding for an aerospace AM hub, South Korea’s Lincsolution outlined plans…

Experienced 3D printing executive Neil Glazebrook has started GBI Group. Neil began in machining operations before moving to CAD/CAM sales, Product Management at Cimquest, and launching AB Corp’s 3D printing…

The additive manufacturing market continued to grow in the second quarter of 2026, adding another quarter to what is becoming a much more consistent expansion for the industry. Worldwide revenue…

SWISSto12 will partner with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The duo has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) covering manufacturing payloads, RF products, and expansion in Asia. SWISSto12 will also manufacture phased-array…

The Pentagon, along with deep-pocketed collaborators in the private sector, is urgently coordinating the buildup of all the elements necessary for a domestic US drone supply chain. Even so, those…

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…

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…

Welcome to Printing Money Episode 42. Troy Jensen (Managing Director, Cantor) returns, joining Danny Piper (Managing Partner, NewCap) to review Q2 2026 publicly traded 3DP/AM company earnings reports. Troy’s quarterly…

A couple of years ago, in the title of an interview I did with the CEO of SPEE3D, Byron Kennedy, I referred to SPEE3D as “the most American 3D printing…

We’ve got a lot of business news from ATLIX to start off this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, with a new identify for its additive manufacturing (AM) portfolio and some…

Marc Andreessen notwithstanding, it turns out that hardware is, in fact, eating the world. Perhaps after being starved for so long, the hardware side of tech innovation is now overcompensating,…

Chinese powder producers have traditionally had little impact on the additive manufacturing market. Typically, they offer low-cost powders without much in the way of settings or application support. But China’s…

The space industry is currently worth about $650 billion globally, growing nearly 50 percent since 2020, which is certainly impressive. But over the next decade, the total market opportunity in…

We’re starting off this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs with a little business from Axtra3D and Beehive Industries, before moving on to a scientific collaboration agreement between Roboze and a…

Nigeria-based Arridex has deep experience in oil and gas additive manufacturing. Previously known as RusselSmith, the firm has in-house metal and polymer additive technology. The company is making 3D printed…

Throughout the history of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, there are only a couple of really interesting case studies in which we see a market significantly disrupted and revolutionized by AM….

This is Part II of a five-part series by AMPOWER, Gold Sponsor of Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) 2027. For most of this industry’s history, the commercial task was to sell…

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…

A 3D printing technology that Nano Dimension sold just five months ago is now being installed inside one of Israel’s largest defense companies. QTREX Quantum (Nasdaq: QTEX) bought Nano Dimension’s…

Nothing else in the global economy quite compares to Taiwan’s share of the global semiconductor market. There are other cases of geographic concentration, involving critical materials and components, where certain…

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…

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….