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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…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 27, 2025: Executives, Microelectronic Cooling, & More
We’ll focus on business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with 3D Systems’ new Chief Financial Officer and the expansions to Carbon’s global leadership team. Titomic sold a D623…
IperionX Gets $12.5 Million from the DoD to Ramp Up U.S. Titanium Production
Titanium technology company IperionX (ASX: IPX) has received $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to boost titanium production at its Virginia manufacturing campus. This money is part…
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…
3DPOD 268: AM for IndyCar with Kory Drake, Arrow McLaren
Kory Drake grew up surrounded by the fumes of motor oil and gasoline. With a family steeped in racing and race engineering, he naturally ended up working for racing teams….
AMS 2026: Registration Rates Increasing for 3D Printing Business Conference
From February 24-26, 2026, our Additive Manufacturing Strategies event will return once again to New York City for three days of panels, presentations, and keynotes on critical topics in the…
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…
Vessels & Voids Exhibition Connects 3D Printing, Clay, and Architecture at Rockville’s VisArts
At the Kaplan Gallery in Rockville, Maryland, a new exhibition is bridging centuries-old clay traditions with some of the most exciting tools of modern architecture. Vessels & Voids: Architects and…
DARPA Backs Battelle and Aprecia to Accelerate Pharmaceutical 3D Printing
Back in the ancient history of industrial 3D printing — 2016 — ZipDose, made by Ohio’s Aprecia, became the first drug produced with additive manufacturing (AM) available in U.S. pharmacies…
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…
Velo3D Uplists to Nasdaq, Raises $17.5M to Fuel Next Phase
Velo3D has taken a big step forward. On August 19, 2025, the company announced that it raised $17.5 million through a public stock offering and officially uplisted its shares to…
NASA’s GRX-810 3D Printing Alloy Moves From Lab to Real Hardware
When rockets or jet engines fire up, their parts face unimaginable stress. Temperatures can rise above 2,000°F, and under that kind of heat, most metals quickly weaken or break apart….
Carolina Cluster: 3D Printing Integral to Savannah River National Laboratory’s New Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative
The story of manufacturing unfolds in hubs, and in the U.S. since the aftermath of World War Two, federally-funded national laboratories have played a major role in helping those hubs…
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…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 13, 2025: Public Utility, Rocket Engine, Brains, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, AML3D’s large-scale metal 3D printing system is now online at the largest public utility in the U.S. Moving on, Bright Laser Technologies is 3D…
A 3D Printed Chilled Water Pump Cooling Rotor: The U.S. Navy Keeps Using AM to Cut Costs
One of the surest ways for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry to illustrate that AM is a differentiator is by creating use cases that deliver quantifiable lead time and/or cost…
3D Printing Financials: 3D Systems Turns Profit Amid Revenue Decline
3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, showing a drop in revenue but a sharp improvement in profitability, driven by cost reductions,…
Daring AM: Changing Landscape for 3D Printed Guns
3D printed guns continue to draw attention from lawmakers, tech platforms, and law enforcement. Difficult to trace, these ghost guns can be made at home with a 3D printer and…
3DPOD 266: Composite AM and Convergent Manufacturing with Habib Dagher, University of Maine
Dr. Habib Dagher founded the University of Maine‘s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which, with 400 researchers, is one of the leading composites research centers in the world. In 3D…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 9, 2025: U.S. Production, Optical Force Sensors, & More
We’re kicking things off today in 3D Printing News Briefs with some business news, starting with UK-based WB Alloys, which will build its first U.S. wire alloy production facility in…
Adaptiv AI: Ivan Madera’s Mission Is to Unify Manufacturing, from Desk to Shop Floor
When Ivan Madera left Morf3D in 2023, he wasn’t done solving manufacturing problems. After helping build one of the leading metal additive manufacturing (AM) companies in the U.S. and driving…
America Makes Launches $1.7M Project Call to Train & Qualify AM Suppliers for Defense at MMX 2025
America Makes has announced a new funding opportunity to strengthen the U.S. defense supply chain through additive manufacturing (AM). Backed by $1.7 million from the Department of Defense (DoD), the…
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…
3D Printing Financials: Velo3D Grows Revenue in Q2, Targets 2026 EBITDA Breakeven
Velo3D‘s (OTCQX: VLDXD) latest earnings show that the company is continuing to recover momentum after a rocky 2024. In the second quarter of 2025, the metal 3D printing company posted…
