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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…

6K Energy Wins $1.9M Defense Grant to Advance U.S.-Made Battery Materials

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded 6K Energy a $1.9 million research and development grant to support the domestic production of advanced lithium-ion battery materials. The funding, issued…

New 3D Printed Hydrogen Cell Factory Just Switched On in Catalonia

The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has opened a pilot plant that 3D prints advanced ceramic devices for renewable hydrogen systems. It’s described as the first facility on the…

AM Demand Signals: What A Ball Valve from Shell & Bonney Forge Says About 3DP in the Oil & Gas Industry

The time and resource expenditures required to qualify parts for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry can certainly be demanding. But those requirements are also reassuring. Most obviously, they’re reassuring from…

Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: Rooftop Wind Gets a 3D Printed Spin

Walking through Autodesk’s Technology Center in Boston, I’ve come to expect surprises. One second, it’s MIT engineers pushing concrete printers to their limits, the next it’s Harvard architects stitching stone…

AFRL Funds Flexible 3D Printed Antenna Arrays With Real Time Correction

Washington State University (WSU), the University of Maryland, the University of British Columbia, and Boeing researchers have completed work on additively manufactured antenna arrays, which have been published in Nature…

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…

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…

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…

ORNL Continues Developing DuAlumin-3D

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has reported progress with DuAlumin-3D. The team has said that, “DuAlumin-3D outperforms traditional alloys, which are prone to cracking during laser powder bed fusion processing,…

3D Printing News Briefs, August 27, 2025: Executives, Microelectronic Cooling, & More

We’ll focus on business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with 3D Systems’ new Chief Financial Officer and the expansions to Carbon’s global leadership team. Titomic sold a D623…

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…

Researchers Use LPBF 3D Printed Component to Improve Bacteria-Based Battery’s Power Output

According to a report by AM Research, the 3D electronics printing (3DEP) market is estimated to experience major growth in the coming years, with total market value expected to reach…

ORNL MDF 3D Prints Reactor Formwork Amid Renewed Interest in Nuclear Energy

Having just 3D printed specimen containers using additive, ORNL is moving further. At the ORNL Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), they’ve worked with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction to use 3D…

ORNL Moves Forward with 3D Printed Steel Nuclear Parts

The nuclear industry has been working with additive for many years: Only recently have we been finding out about all of the components that are currently being used. The work…

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Croom Medical Signals Potential for 3D Print Diversification in Nuclear Fusion

As international interest in reshoring continues to mount, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry clearly has key advantages to offer suppliers scrambling to develop alternatives to traditional supply chains. One of…

Hyperion Robotics, UK National Grid to Use 3D Printing for Low-Carbon Substation Foundations

Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish provider of additive construction (AC) solutions specializing in low-carbon infrastructure projects, has partnered with UK utilities giant National Grid to test the use of 3D printed…

Alloy Enterprises Unveils 3D Printed Copper Cooling for AI Data Centers

As AI continues to push data centers to their limits, one 3D printing company is rethinking how we keep all that computing power from overheating. Boston-based Alloy Enterprises has unveiled…

3D Printing 50 Polymer Stand-In Parts for Tokamaks at the PPPL & Elytt Energy

Of all the world’s things, a tokamak is one of the hardest, most complex, expensive and exacting ones to make. These fusion energy devices make plasma, and use magnets to…

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Back in the Mix: How Continuum’s Powder Platform Fuels the Next Phase of AM

Continuum Powders made headlines in 2025 for its work with Siemens Energy, helping the industrial giant turn aerospace scrap into metal powder for additive manufacturing (AM). That scrap-to-powder model became…

Titomic Partners with DNV to Advance Cold Spray AM in Oil & Gas

Australian cold spray additive manufacturing (AM) OEM Titomic has partnered with Norway’s DNV to accelerate certification of cold spray parts for oil & gas and maritime applications. DNV is among…

Specialty Manufacturer Plansee Pursue Refractory Metal 3D Printing via Incus

Austrian slurry stereolithography (SLA) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Incus has sold a Hammer Evo35 3D printer to Plansee. Also Austrian, Plansee specializes in MIM, powder metallurgy, and other manufacturing processes…

Bosch Invests €6M into Serial Auto Part 3D Printing

German industrial conglomerate Robert Bosch GmbH, the world’s largest supplier of automotive parts, has announced a new investment into Nuremberg, Germany additive manufacturing (AM) facility. The nearly €6 million in…

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Strategic Advantage of 3D Printing in a Time of Import Tariffs

The value of 3D printing in mitigating the impact of import tariffs is often underestimated. Now is the time to leverage 3D printing to adapt and profit from the opportunities…