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Boston’s Additive Edge: Inside Harvard’s Lewis Lab and the Road to Patients, Part II
When I visited Jennifer Lewis’s lab earlier this summer, doctoral researcher Paul Stankey showed me how the team is laying the groundwork for bioprinting, from stem cells to vascular networks…
Daring AM: Cornell’s 3D Printed Superconductor Smashes Records
Superconductors carry electricity without resistance, a rare and useful property that makes them important for things like MRI machines and quantum computers. Normally, they’re made from heavy, fragile materials using…
Getting a Foothold in Additive: White Paper from AM Research and Stratasys Makes the Case for 3D Printed Tooling
Despite all the assumptions that Western reshoring efforts would be bolstered by the tariff-centric trade war policies initiated by the second Trump administration, it’s still far too early to guess…
Crawl/Walk. Then, Run: 3D Systems’ Aerospace & Defense VP Mike Shepard on How to Scale Military 3D Printing
Defense spending around the world has been skyrocketing in the last few years, with the 9.4 percent growth in 2024 constituting “the steepest year-on-year [YOY] rise since at least the…
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…
