Energy
AM Demand Signals: the Tungsten Harbinger
Most everyone who’s concerned with the scarcity of industrial materials is focused on rare earths, and rightfully so. But aside from the direct impact resulting from tighter supplies of rare…
Sakuu to Go the SPAC Route in Anticipation of Its 3D Printed Batteries Hitting the Market
Back in August, Ursa Major, which uses additive manufacturing (AM) for propulsion components, announced that it plans to go public early in 2027 via the Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC)…
AMAZEMET Signs MOU with F4E for Fusion Power Additive Manufacturing
AMAZEMET has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Fusion for Energy (F4E). F4E is perhaps not widely known, but it’s a very important organization, as it’s the European contributor…
Why the AM Industry Should Pay Attention to Schneider Electric’s $22.6B PTC Acquisition
By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the…
AM Demand Signals: Global Grid Resilience, Part 2
The nature of the AI boom seems no clearer despite its persistence, yet it persists. For one thing, as I’ve discussed before, people really seem to dislike data centers. American…
Arridex Buys and Installs CEAD Unit
Lagos-based Arridex has purchased and installed a CEAD Flexcube LFAM system at its Omnifactory. Previously, oil and gas MRO firm Arridex expanded its network to Ghana, worked with BLT, got…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 19, 2026: Process Validation, Orthotics, Energy Storage, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Eplus3D and Young-Will Aerospace are working on LPBF process validation for a nickel-copper alloy. Meltio released a U.S.-made version of its Meltio Robot…
Rosatom Aligns the Spread of Its AM Capabilities with Its Nuclear Deals
Back in 2016, Vietnam abandoned plans to build its first nuclear power plant, with the government viewing the market conditions surrounding electricity demand as being no longer conducive to the…
Savannah River National Laboratory & 3D Systems Sign Nuclear CRADA
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are deals between US federal organizations and other entities. The latter group most often includes private companies, as the primary purpose of CRADAs is…
DOE Awards $50M to Coreshell Technologies & AM Batteries for Domestic Anode Production
One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need…
Chromatic 3D Materials Opens Propellant Test-firing Site in Minnesota
Chromatic 3D Materials has inaugurated a test firing site at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minnesota. It’s a 210 square kilometer Minnesota National Guard site used for training service members from…
EOS Joins the MAT‑H2 Consortium
EOS is joining the MAT‑H2 consortium. MAT is an EU-funded group that aims to do research into a hydrogen-led economy. The thinking is that hydrogen will be a clean energy…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 22, 2026: Delisting, Wind Turbine Blades, & More
We’re covering business and energy news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Würth Additive Group has closed its doors, and BigRep delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. RA Wind received…
UCLA 3D Prints Zinc-Ion Battery With Seven Times More Energy
Just days after researchers at the California Institute of Technology unveiled a 3D printed design for lithium-ion batteries, another university team has announced a different battery breakthrough using additive manufacturing…
Caltech Uses 3D Printing to Rethink the Lithium-Ion Battery
For more than two decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered almost everything around us. They are inside smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles, drones, and even many medical devices. Batteries have improved a…
Aires Tide Designed with AI, Supercomputers, and 3D Printing
The Department of Energy‘s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is part of the US government that manages the US nuclear stockpile, helping to upgrade, improve, and maintain nuclear weapons, and…
From Vision to Reality: Secure Additive Manufacturing for Brazil’s Energy Sector
In the oil and gas industry, every day of unplanned downtime can translate into significant operational and financial losses. When a critical component is unavailable, operators may wait days or…
Why Qualification Is Becoming the Next Frontier for AM in Energy
The energy industry doesn’t have much room for failure. Components used in power generation often operate under extreme temperatures and pressures, sometimes for decades at a time. That’s one reason…
3DPOD 302: Digital Inventory for AM with Mikhail Gladkikh, Würth Additive Group
Mikhail Gladkikh has worked in oil and gas for many years. With this background, we obviously talk about energy market turbulence and the adoption of AM in oil and gas….
NX Atomics and Sciaky Collaborating to 3D Print Nuclear Components
For decades, the nuclear industry has quietly experimented with and implemented additive. Bouyed by the likes of ORNL, companies such as Westinghouse have 3D printed components serially. We have an…
How Additive Manufacturing Is Reducing Downtime in Irrigation Systems
In modern agriculture, uptime matters. Irrigation systems need to keep running during key growing periods, and even short interruptions can affect crops and reduce yields. Over the past few years,…
AM Drilldown: the Beginning of 3D Printing’s Next Phase in the Energy Sector
For much of the last decade, many have pushed an unjustifiably optimistic view of global energy consumption, along the lines of, fossil fuels are “on their way out.” Sadly, this…
ORNL Continues Research Into Making Large Format Metal Parts by Combining AM and HIP
This can’t be stressed enough: the US needs to secure its supply chains for energy and power generation components. And, while the US needs to prioritize that objective across the…
i3D Manufacturing Expands Metal 3D Printing Capacity with Burloak Technologies Acquisition
The Canadian economy may be one of the most difficult to forecast right now. This is largely the result of the fact that the nation is attempting to thread a…
