Consumer Goods
3D Printing Predictions 2026: The Material Extrusion Market in 2026
The material extrusion market has seen titanic shifts over the past few years. A new bevvy of low-cost 3D printers have turned to software and sensors to make reliable high-speed…
Palette 300 Launches at CES 2026: AtomForm Debuts Its 12-Nozzle, 36-Color 3D Printer
Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 is officially in session (January 6-9). As desktop 3D printers are arguably as important to the additive manufacturing (AM) industry today as at…
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…
An 18-Year Old Entrepreneur Built a $300,000-a-Month Business 3D Printing Can Holders
An 18-year-old entrepreneur has turned 3D printing into a six-figure e-commerce business, showing how consumer-grade additive manufacturing can scale quickly when paired with social media reach. Michael Satterlee, the founder…
LEGO AM Leader Ronen Hadar to Deliver Keynote at AMUG 2026
The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has announced one of its keynote speakers for the 2026 AMUG Conference. Ronen Hadar, Senior Director and Head of Additive Design and Manufacturing at…
Santa Cruz Startup Swellcycle Boosts Surfboard Sustainability with 3D Printing
Athletic equipment is such a ripe area for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, if only because there are just so many different sports in the world. The factors that drive…
Killer 3D Printing Applications: Office Chairs
In terms of seating, bicycle seats are a very successful 3D printing application. We also looked at the potential for car seats, which is present but would require that people…
Aectual Launches Boxy: A Modular, Customizable Planter System 3D Printed with Recycled Materials
I do not have a green thumb in even the broadest sense of the term. I have a black thumb. Plants die around me, I cannot keep them alive. But…
LEGO’s First Mass-Produced 3D Printed Element Is Now in Stores in a New Holiday Set
Back in September, 3DPrint.com reported that LEGO was preparing to release its first mass-produced 3D printed element inside an upcoming LEGO Christmas set. At the time, details were limited to…
Killer 3D Printing Applications: Car Seating
Bicycle seats are a 3D printing success story. Often made using Carbon’s technology, high-end road bike saddles are now on offer from most premium bike saddle brands. Retailing for over…
Creality’s Black Friday 2025 Mega Sale Has Huge Discounts Across the K2 Series and More
Creality’s biggest sale of the year is here, and almost over. The Black Friday 2025 Mega Sale runs through November 30, offering discounts across the company’s newest K2 Series 3D…
Creality Opens Its First Overseas Pop-Up Store in Los Angeles, Marking a Major Step in Global Expansion
This week, Creality officially opened its first overseas offline pop-up store, which marked a significant step in the company’s international retail strategy, and brought an immersive 3D printing experience directly…
Bambu Releases H2C With Vortek System Upgrade
See the addendum to this article for an update from 11/25/2025. Bambu Lab releases its H2C with the new Vortek system on board, debuting the machine at Formnext 2025. Vortek…
Wigglitz Uses 2,700 Desktop Machines to 3D Print Toys
Wigglitz is a brand of tiny, wiggly, colorful, 3D printed toys. Launched just this year, the teeny little segmented creatures are made in the company’s own print farm. The company…
Carbon’s DLS 3D Printing Tech Boosted by $60M in Latest Funding Round
At Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interview Phil DeSimone, co-founder of Carbon and currently part of the company’s office of the CEO. One…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 12, 2025: Standards, Printhead, UV Printing, & More
We’re starting with standards news from ASTM International in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to business, as Precision Plastics Australia launched a new collaborative venture. ValCUN…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 8, 2025: Distribution, Prosthetics, Dental Restoration, & More
We’ll start off this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs with a little business, as Spectroplast appointed a new CEO, Meltio appointed a new distributor, and WOL3D inaugurated what it says…
XJet Continues Its Push to Lower Barrier-to-Entry with Carmel Pro 3D Printer
Over the summer, Israeli metal and ceramic additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) XJet announced the sale of a Carmel 1400M metal 3D printer to Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI),…
Seeking Success in Additive: Be Wooj
Remember when we used to talk a lot about democratizing design and manufacturing? We did do that to a certain extent; you can upload files to Shapeways, Endeavor3D, Protolabs, and…
Nike’s 3D Printed Air Max 95000 Revealed at ComplexCon
Nike has increased its branding emphasis on 3D printing across multiple releases this year: the latest was just announced at ComplexCon in Las Vegas. The new drop is the Air…
Breezm 3D Printed Eyewear Arrives in the U.S.
Last month, 3DPrint.com received an invite to test out Breezm’s personalized 3D printed eyewear experience. We accepted with eyes wide open and came away with eyes comfortably shaded, clad in…
3D Systems Unveils Its Most Advanced & Versatile Wax 3D Printer for Jewelry Manufacturing
According to a report by Additive Manufacturing Research, the 3D printed jewelry market is expected to reach $989 million by 2031. One of the major vendors profiled in the report…
China’s Sharewow to Go Public on Nasdaq with $30M Raise for 3D Portrait Printing
Chinese company Sharewow has filed for a $30 million U.S. initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq under the ticker SUWA. The company builds 3D photography booths, printers, and software that…
How Prelaunch Helped a 3D Printing Startup Avoid Failure — Before It Even Launched
Prelaunch is changing the status quo of product launches. Instead of relying on surveys or focus groups, the platform asks real people to put down small deposits before a product…
