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World’s First 3D Bioprinted Corneal Implant Successfully Implanted in Phase 1 Patient
For the first time anywhere in the world, a corneal implant grown entirely in a lab and printed from living human cells has been transplanted into a human patient. The…
Formnext 2025: Day Four: Beauty the World (Through Missile Defense)
Day four, without the Americans and executives, is a joy. It feels a bit like the last days of summer, languid, time passing in globs of molasses. In looking back,…
The Hospital Factory: Mayo Clinic’s In-House 3D Printing for the OR
“At Mayo Clinic, 3D printing isn’t a side project, it’s a patient-specific service that runs on hospital time, helping surgeons plan and act with confidence,” says Dr. Jonathan Morris, a…
Formnext 2025: Day Three: We Are the Champignons
Closing out the Champ bar and sitting in the lobby of the Marriott is perhaps not the most healthy of pastimes. Consuming a tower of mini burgers pinned to chicken…
Creality Opens Its First Overseas Pop-Up Store in Los Angeles, Marking a Major Step in Global Expansion
This week, Creality officially opened its first overseas offline pop-up store, which marked a significant step in the company’s international retail strategy, and brought an immersive 3D printing experience directly…
Sintokogio Buys Bosch’s Ceramics Unit, Plans Global AM Expansion
Japan’s Sintokogio Group is buying Bosch Advanced Ceramics to expand its work in 3D printed technical ceramics. The agreement was signed on November 18 and formally announced at the Formnext…
Firestorm Labs’ xCell Helps U.S. Army Train for 3D Printed Drone Missions
The U.S. Department of War (DoW) has been telling anyone who will listen that the Pentagon is making major changes to how it procures equipment. In a recent speech at…
7 Ways ASTM is Making AM More Ready for the Real World
Known for setting industry standards, ASTM used this year’s Formnext to launch a global, seven-part initiative to help 3D printing move faster from research to the factory floor. ASTM focused…
Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: Rooftop Wind Gets a 3D Printed Spin
Walking through Autodesk’s Technology Center in Boston, I’ve come to expect surprises. One second, it’s MIT engineers pushing concrete printers to their limits, the next it’s Harvard architects stitching stone…
3DPOD 281: Freemelt CEO Daniel Gidlund on E-Beam PBF Metal AM
Daniel Gidlund leads Freemelt, a company that has been steadily establishing its place in metal AM with open-source thinking and a clear technical vision. In this episode, he walks us…
Smiles, Selfies, and Super-Sized Prints: Formnext on Social Media
After a week of big announcements and impressive launches, social media posts captured another side of Formnext 2025. Alongside all the technical highlights and product news, people online were sharing…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 22, 2025: Rebranding, Integration, Electronic Eyes, & More
We’ll start with a new software tool from AON3D in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then we’ve got a lot of business, from Conflux Technology and Prima Additive to…
Trident Warrior 2025 Becomes a Massive Showcase for 3D Printing — With 11 AM Companies in the Field
Every year, the U.S. Navy runs an exercise called Trident Warrior to test new technologies under real operating conditions. In 2025, the biggest surprise was how central 3D printing became….
EPFL Is Growing Metal
Over the years, researchers in additive manufacturing have been working on different hydrogel systems for scaffolds, supports, and parts. Others have worked on different forms of growing 3D prints, while…
Photopolymer Resins, Metal Powders, & More 3D Printing Material News at Formnext 2025
It’s the final day of Formnext 2025! If you’re still on the show floor today, make sure to visit the following companies to see all of their latest AM material…
Colibrium Goes After Serial Production With Its Most Powerful M Line Yet
Colibrium Additive, the GE Aerospace-owned metal AM business, was at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt this week to introduce its latest machine upgrade: a 4 × 1 kW version of the…
SPARC: Authentise Makes AM-Optimized Workflow Software Available for U.S. Military Surge Production
Earlier this year, Authentise, the manufacturing workflow software provider based in the UK and Philadelphia, announced that it was working on a collaborative engineering platform called Project DDNA, a defense-oriented…
Materialise Launches New CO-AM Tools Amid New Industrial Phase in AM Software
When Materialise launched its CO-AM platform about three years ago, the company aimed to leverage cloud-based engineering capabilities to enhance the openness of the additive manufacturing (AM) software experience and…
Formnext 2025: PolyJet Support Removal, Resale, Fundraising, & More
The announcements from Formnext 2025 keep rolling in, giving some of us who aren’t attending major FOMO (me, it’s me). But with all of the exciting news we’re sharing with…
Formnext 2025 Day Two: Cost Out & LAPIS
I, for one, think the lack of carpet is a fitting metaphor. They normally throw it out after a few days of use, so not having a carpet leads to…
Stratasys Adds Metal & Ceramic to Its 3D Printing Portfolio with Tritone Investment
Stratasys once began the process of launching its own metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology, Layered Powder Metallurgy (LPM). According to a 2023 Yoav Zeif interview with TCT Magazine, the company…
ExOne and voxeljet Combine Global Service Teams to Support Industrial 3D Printers
ExOne and voxeljet, now both part of ExOne Global Holdings, have launched a unified global service network for their industrial binder jet 3D printers. The idea is to have one…
Formnext 2025: New Metal PBF 3D Printer, Serial Production Applications, & More
It’s Day 2 of Formnext 2025, where over 800 exhibitors from around the world have converged in Frankfurt for Europe’s premier additive manufacturing (AM) trade show. From exciting new printers…
Aibuild and Reichenbacher Hamuel Ink Partnership
Aibuild will partner with Reichenbacher Hamuel to bring to market multi-axis CNC hybrid tools with AI toolpathing. Aibuild is well known, of course, as a 3D printing software firm that connects…
