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Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2025: When Boring Beats Brilliant
“While Western companies fight for novelty, China fights for acceptance.” This observation, scribbled in my iPhone note app during Formnext Asia Shenzhen, held from August 26 to 28, captures what…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: A Foxconn in the Henhouse, Part 5
In this series, we’ve looked at how we came to be deluded and how binder jet technology could grow. We’ve explored the players in the industry and where binder jet…
MMX 2025: America Makes Leadership Team Shares Institute Updates
Featured image: chairs, podium, and letters 3D printed by JuggerBot 3D. America Makes is a public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM), driven by the non-profit National Center for Defense Manufacturing…
Arun Jeldi’s American Dream: the Velo3D CEO on Where the Company, and Metal 3D Printing, are Headed
“I have a plan for 2050,” Dr. Arun Jeldi told me, “for how Velo3D can keep growing through that time, and longer. I want Velo3D to be a century-old company…
Printing Money Episode 31: AM Deals and Analysis with Fabian Alefeld, EOS
Printing Money Episode 31 is here! Danny’s guest for this episode is Fabian Alefeld (Director Business Development & Academy, Global Additive Minds | EOS North America, and Podcast Host, Additive…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: Changes, Part 4
In rough seas, binder jet as a market is underpinned by a collection of firms, some large and small. We looked at their potential staying power, the applications and parts,…
America Makes, MMX, & Where U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Goes from Here
I’ve seen plenty of people say more or less this same thing over the last few years: what’s standing in the way of AM’s scale-up in the U.S. defense industrial…
Creality To Go Public
Creality is one of the largest 3D printing companies in the world. It probably ships more 3D Printers than anyone else. In a competitive market, the company has gone from…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: Shook Ones, Part 3
In the classic tune Shook Ones Pt II by Mobb Deep, we get introduced to “all of those who wanna profile and pose,” but when the going gets tough, they…
Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: Inside a Playground of Builders and Breakthroughs
Stepping into Autodesk’s Technology Center in Boston feels like entering the engine room of the future. The tools are sharp, and no idea is too wild to prototype. It’s a…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: On A Jet Plane, Part 2
We’re in the doldrums. And binder jet is more in the doldrums still. In the first article in this series, we looked at how Jedi Mind Tricks got us to…
EOS & NASA Sign Agreement to Accelerate Space 3D Printing Workforce Development
If there’s one major issue in the manufacturing sector that can be expected to persist well into the future, it’s workforce development. This is especially true in nations like the…
Boston’s Additive Edge: How RLP Grew from MIT Magic to Market Reality
Rapid Liquid Print (RLP) turned heads earlier this year with a futuristic silicone handbag made for fashion house Coperni, printed using the company’s 3D technology. But for co-founder and CEO…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: Jedi Mind Tricks, Part I
You’ve probably noticed that the binder jet market has been rather rocky as of late. Voxeljet was delisted, was not sold, and is now restructuring. Nano Dimension subsidiary Desktop Metal…
AM Demand Signals: Unusual Machines’ CEO Allan Evans Explains the White House Executive Order on Drones
In terms of all the many factors out there with the potential to impact demand outlook for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, an executive order issued by the White House…
Reborn to Reshore: Why the Velo3D Story May Just Be Getting Started
As someone who was born in 1988, I’ve lived through some pretty wacky economic disruptions. But I think that the mood now prevailing in the global business environment may make…
Manufacturing Industry Trends & AM Suite Software with Hexagon’s Jason Walker & Mathieu Perennou
There are several trends shaping the future of manufacturing in 2025, including supply chain resilience, workforce development and management, sustainability, and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like AI, automation, and…
Desktop Metal Bankruptcy: Analysis & Karma Police
Today, Nano Dimension-owned Desktop Metal has filed for bankruptcy. Across a dozen funding rounds, the company raised over $816 million, had a SPAC, and was then acquired by Nano Dimension…
Daring AM: 3D Printing Moves Closer to the Clinic
In July 2025, 3D printing in medicine took several bold steps forward, not just as a tool for prototyping or visualization, but as a way to build real, functional treatments…
Srini Kaza Discusses Strategically Scaling Align’s “Smile-Changing” 3D Printed Aligners
Align Technology‘s Invisalign is a revolutionary method to get you the smile you want through 3D printing. It is also a hugely popular process to go through, a $4 billion…
AM Software Provider Dyndrite Forms Multi-Year Partnership with 3D Printed Propulsion Specialist Ursa Major
The right partnerships enable all parties involved to accentuate their strengths more effectively than would be possible if each partner was working alone. Digital manufacturing software provider Dyndrite, which specializes…
This Elephant-Inspired Robot Walks on 3D Printed Muscles and Bones
A new elephant-inspired robot can do some of the most surprising tasks, from gently plucking a flower with its trunk to powerfully kicking a bowling ball. It’s all thanks to…
Fortius Metals’ Jeph Ruppert on Why Wire-Based AM is Ready for Takeoff
Jeph Ruppert may have only been at Fortius Metals for a couple of months, but he knows the intricacies of additive manufacturing (AM) like someone who’s been steering the company…
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…
