Metal 3D Printing
3D Printing News Briefs, September 27, 2025: Large-Format Pellet Printing, Recycled Polymers, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with metal coatings for polymer micro 3D printed parts. MELD is releasing its next generation of machines, Modix announced serial production…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 24, 2025: Survey, AM Curriculum, UHPC Rheology, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll get things started with a comprehensive post-processing survey by PostProcess Technologies. Jacksonville State University is partnering with EOS Additive Minds to develop AM…
Beehive Industries Moves Ahead with Frenzy Engine
Beehive Industries was initially a more generalized service before focusing on manufacturing its own components. The path to get there was not an easy one; the company laid off around…
MacLean-Fogg & Fraunhofer ILT Make 156 Kg 3D Printed Toyota Tooling Insert
Fastener & tooling firm MacLean-Fogg Company and Fraunhofer ILT have created a 156 kg conformally cooled die casting insert, made out of the firm’s own L-40 tool steel powder. This…
Boston’s Additive Edge: How Alloy Enterprises Turns Sheets of Metal into Cooling for the AI Era
When I walked into Alloy Enterprises’ headquarters just outside Boston, I didn’t expect to be handed a piece of metal as light as a feather or to learn that it…
3DPOD 272: Kevin Kassekert, VulcanForms CEO
Kevin Kassekert has deep experience building factories for Tesla and has worked in the semiconductor industry. He now helms VulcanForms and is looking to scale their high-yield Laser Powder Bed…
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…
Croom Medical Releases Porous Biofuse Geometry for 3D Printed Lattices
Irish contract manufacturer Croom Medical specializes in orthopedic implants manufacturing and has deep experience in using LPBF. The company runs Colibrium, Renishaw, and 3D Systems metal printers and works in…
Arc Takes Over Desktop Metal, with a Focus on AI and U.S. Manufacturing
After months of financial uncertainty, Desktop Metal (DM) is getting a second chance, and a new name. Following several restructuring attempts, including a merger with Nano Dimension and a Chapter…
Lithoz Makes Aluminium Nitride Heat Exchanger
Lithoz has made an Aluminium nitride heat exchanger component. The endeavor forms part of the European Union’s (EU) Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action TRIATHLON project, managed by Delft University of…
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Partners with the US Navy for the Maritime Industrial Base
Following the recent announcement that Velo3D has partnered with the US Navy for the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB), now Nikon Advanced Manufacturing is doing the same. One Nikon SLM Solutions…
NAMI & Lockheed Martin Partner to Qualify Aluminum 3D Printed Aerospace Components in KSA
The National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Company (NAMI) is a unique joint venture between DUSSUR, a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) public investment fund that focuses on strategic industries, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 11, 2025: Project Call, Auto Color Mapping, & More
We’re starting with America Makes news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as a new project call for continuous fiber AM was recently announced. Moving on, there are two stories…
Meltio Gains Credibility and Efficiency: Real Industrial Parts Reinforce its AM Solutions
Meltio‘s metal AM solutions are helping industries around the world to efficiently manufacture and repair metal parts in 3D, consolidating their credibility in the market. Compared to conventional manufacturing methods,…
ETH Zurich Develops Rotary LPBF System that Processes Multiple Metals
ETH Zurich researchers have come up with a rotary LPBF system, the RAPTURE, that can process multiple metal materials simultaneously. In their published paper, they explain that the system may…
3D Printed Heat Exchanger Specialist Conflux Joins Honeywell-Led Aircraft Consortium
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has increased its technical maturity at an accelerated pace in recent years. One way that the industry can continue this positive momentum is by centering…
Phase3D Brings Its Fringe Inspection Hardware to Colibrium M2 Series 5 3D Printers
Amidst the gradual scale-up of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, a consensus has started, solidified around the idea that the industry urgently needs to bring down the cost of qualifying…
3DPOD 270: Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO Nikon Advanced Manufacturing
Hamid Zarringhalam rose through the ranks of Nikon‘s precision manufacturing unit. He’s now a Corporate Vice President at Nikon and the CEO of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing and Nikon Ventures. We’re…
Ursa Major to Work With EOS On Hypersonics
Ursa Major plans to buy three AMCM M 450-4 FLX machines, in addition to the two M400 systems and an AMCM M 290-1 FLX that the company already owns. The…
SPEE3D Takes Deployable Cold Spray AM on the Road in European Tour
Australian metal cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) OEM SPEE3D is taking its containerized systems on the road. Earlier this week, the company began a tour across Europe to showcase its…
3DPOD 269: AM in Japan, Software for AM, and more with Peter Rogers, Layered Ltd.
Peter Rogers is Australian but has worked in Japan since 2009. He has held roles at a Japanese 3D Printing firm, at Velo3D, and at Autodesk. Today, he consults for…
SAE International Celebrates its 10th Anniversary of AM Aerospace Standards
Ten years into SAE’s AMS AM standards work, Bill Bihlman examines progress, pain points, and the path to wider aerospace adoption. This summer, SAE celebrated its 10th anniversary of its…
Velo3D Announces Collaborations with U.S. Army & U.S. Navy for Defense & Maritime Applications
Metal 3D printing company Velo3D (Nasdaq: VELO), which just this week uplisted to the Nasdaq Capital Market a year after leaving the NYSE for over-the-counter (OTC) markets, is participating in…
Air Force Awards 3D Systems $7.65M Contract to Continue Work on Large Format Metal 3D Printer
Back in September 2023, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded 3D Systems a contract worth nearly $11 million to develop a large-format metal additive manufacturing (AM) demonstrator, a…
