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Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: Harvard Researchers Turn Mining Waste into Masonry
When most people look at piles of mining waste, they see rubble. For Maddie Farrer and Chenming He, two researchers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), those rocks look…
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…
A Need for New Business Models for Additive Construction Adoption? Not Really
Compared to other industries, the construction sector is known for its lower margins, largely due to the nature of projects and the competitive bidding process it undertakes to acquire them….
Interview with Interspectral’s Isabelle Hachette on Predicting Defects Before They Happen
Interspectral is a Swedish company that enables data visualization and intelligence through AI. The firm has Quality Assurance and Process Monitoring software for additive, called AM Explorer, which helps companies…
Tier 1 Auto Supplier Angstrom Group Acquires 3D Printed Tooling Specialist Mantle
In what has been a relatively slow year for acquisitions in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, one exception to the trend has been the healthy interest buyers are demonstrating in…
U.S. Army’s Drone 3D Printing Hits Next Phase with 25th Infantry Division’s Lethal FPV System
I recently posted about how the acting commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, told interviewers at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Annual…
Inside Prusa Day 2025: CoreOneL, OpenPrintTag & Silicone on the XL Unveiled
The Prusa Day was an event on the 24th of October to showcase the new innovations coming out of Prusa. We can now reveal to you what the company showed…
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…
Who Buys AM in Government: How Stanford’s Steve Blank & BMNT’s Pete Newell Are Helping Startups Serve USG Customers
What’s the most difficult part about selling to the government market? For a company that has never done it before, the answer quite likely is: knowing how to get started,…
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…
“We Can’t Wait” – U.S. Head of Army Materiel Command Signals Further 3D Printing Ramp Up
The vast majority of people in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry concerned with defense seem to be focused on the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB), for valid reasons. But all year,…
AML3D Lands $3M 3D Printer Deal with Newport News Shipbuilding
Over the summer, Australian additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) AML3D announced that the U.S. Navy had issued a letter of intent (LOI) to the company which signaled the…
NAMIC GAMS 2025: Additive as a Tool for Resilience and Agility
This year’s National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) Global AM Summit (GAMS) began once again with a speech by Dr. Ho Chaw Sing, the head of NAMIC. He opened the…
Raiders of the Lost Parts: Jeff Thornburg’s Playbook for Space, Part I
Jeff Thornburg knows what it’s like to get the phone call. In 2011, Elon Musk rang him at home and asked him to come to Hawthorne, California, to help build…
Bambu Lab Launches P2S: Expanding the P1 Legacy with Smarter, Faster Printing
Just two years after shaking up desktop 3D printing with the P1 Series, Bambu Lab is back with the P2S. The new printer builds on that success but sets an…
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…
AM Demand Signals: How Toyota’s Partnership with Stratasys Shows Where Automotive Supply Chains Are Headed
For anyone interested in learning more about what Stratasys is doing with 3D printed tooling for partners like Toyota, register for the webinar, “3D Printed Tooling: A Generational Opportunity to…
Creality K2 and K2 Pro: Print Farm Ready?!
Disclosure: The K2 and K2 Pro were provided to me by Creality free of charge for the purpose of this review. I have not received any other compensation. All opinions…
Powering the Manufacturing Workforce: Nick Pearce of Alexander Daniels on the 3D Printing Labor Pool
Workforce development is starting to become one of the most prominent themes in the mainstream news cycle. While this may seem like a sudden emergence, it’s in fact a story…
Lamborghini Revuelto Gets Stainless Steel 3D Printed Upgrade from Markforged FX10
About a year ago, Markforged announced that it had enabled metal compatibility for its latest-generation composite printer, the FX10, thanks to a print engine adaptor optimized for two different kinds…
A Work(force) in Progress: Advice from ADDMAN’s Nush Ahmed on Bringing Gen Z into Advanced Manufacturing
Culture is a difficult concept to explain. It’s like what St. Augustine said about time: “I know well enough what it is, provided no one asks me; but if I…
Does the Fed Rate Cut Mean Anything for Manufacturers?
About a year ago, the Federal Reserve issued the “jumbo” rate cut, reducing interest rates for the first time since hiking them to their highest levels in decades, a process…
All Systems Go: Vaya Space Proves Why 3D Printing and the Space Industry Need Each Other
The space industry has always attracted systems thinkers, and it’s pretty obvious why that’s the case. You have to be able to view the world in terms of a “big…
BLT on Additive’s Next Chapter: From Novelty to Necessity in China and Beyond
China’s largest metal additive manufacturing (AM) company believes the industry’s next chapter won’t be written in laboratories but on factory floors. And they’re focused on it. Speaking at Formnext Asia…
