digital manufacturing
MiddleGround Capital Announces Intent to Acquire 3D Printing Bureaus
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is currently experiencing an interesting set of roll-ups related to 3D printing service bureaus. Given the pace of the sector and the number of smaller…
Origami Metal Folding Gets Boost from 3D Printing Software
Swedish firm Stilride has partnered with 3D printing software startup ADAXIS to help implement its STILFOLD technology, which uses robotic arms to curve and bend steel into functional structures. Founded…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 15, 2022: 4D Printing, On-Demand Manufacturing, & More
We’re starting out with research in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as a Purdue University team is adding a fourth dimension to 3D printing. Then we move on to business,…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: August 21, 2022
We’ve got another interesting round of webinars and events coming up this week! 3D Systems is attending an investment casting expo, ASTM International has reached the end of its virtual…
MIT Researchers 3D Print Plasma Sensors Using Glass-Ceramic Material
A team of researchers from MIT fabricated what they say are the first fully digitally manufactured plasma sensors, known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), for orbiting spacecraft. Satellites use this…
Custom 3D Printed Tooling Gets Automated with BigRep’s FLOW Software
At formnext 2021, large-format 3D printing company BigRep unveiled its new generation of printers, including the new and improved BigRep PRO and the upgraded BigRep ONE 3D printer. Now, just before RAPID…
FATHOM’s Vision for Consolidating 3D Printing Services: A Talk with CEO Ryan Martin
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is in the midst of an enormous upheaval in too many ways to count. Just one of those ways, however, is the consolidation that is…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: February 26, 2022
We’ve got a super full week of webinars and events to tell you about for this coming week, including one of our own—Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2022 will be held as…
Fast Radius Trades on NASDAQ Against Backdrop of 3D Printing SPAC Pessimism
Cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company Fast Radius rang the NASDAQ closing bell on February 16, 2022, in New York to celebrate the company’s listing on the exchange as…
Now Trading on NYSE: Fathom On-demand 3D Printing Service
On-demand 3D printing service provider Fathom (NYSE: FATH) began trading on December 27, 2021, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker “FATH,” becoming the latest 3D printing…
Xometry Buys Century-Old Thomasnet to Become Amazon of Digital Manufacturing
Digital manufacturing marketplace Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) has announced that it will be purchasing Thomas, a firm dedicated to product sourcing, supplier selection and digital marketing. Expected to close this week, the…
SME Additive Manufacturing Community Awards at RAPID + TCT 2021
At the recent RAPID + TCT 2021 event, in between interviewing companies, walking the show floor, and watching the keynote presentations, I also had the opportunity to attend the SME…
3D Systems Acquires Oqton to Drive 3D Printing for Production
In the AM industry’s second acquisition of the day, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) now has an agreement to acquire software startup Oqton, a global SaaS company founded by manufacturing and artificial intelligence…
Digital Manufacturing Company Fast Radius Goes Public with $1.4B SPAC Agreement
Another day, another SPAC in the additive manufacturing community! While our Executive Editor Joris Peels had originally wondered if BASF might acquire Fast Radius, the cloud manufacturing and digital supply…
Hush Puppies Get Even More Comfortable with Voxel8’s 3D Printed Midsoles
If you look up the term “casual footwear” in the dictionary, chances are you’ll see a pair of shoes with the Hush Puppies logo on it. The globally recognized footwear…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 16, 2021
Even as we get closer to the official start of summer, that doesn’t mean the amount of webinars, virtual events, and live events are going down; in fact, the opposite…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 9, 2021
We’ve got another full week of AM industry webinars and events to tell you about, so let’s not waste any time on the introductions—jump right in! SPE’s ANTEC 2021, with…
Italian Eco-Habitat Complete Thanks to WASP’s 3D Printing Cranes
Could 3D printed homes revolutionize urban planning? Probably not yet, but a pioneering Italian project is moving the needle forward when it comes to additively manufactured eco-habitats made of raw…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 20, 2021: Loop & SAFEEars, AMufacture & Jellypipe, SME
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, we’ve got some business stories to tell you about, and then news on a 3D printing challenge. Loop, of 3D printed ear plug fame,…
nScrypt Achieves Six-Axis 3D Printing with 3Dn-Axis Factory-in-a-Tool System
nScrypt has some pretty exciting news to share: the Florida-based company’s new 3Dn-Axis Factory in a Tool (FiT) system now has six-axis 3D printing capability for all of its tool…
3D Printing Provider Fathom Acquires Injection Molding Firm
With more than 100 large-platform industrial-grade 3D printers, as well as services including CNC machining, injection molding, and urethane casting, Fathom is one of the biggest on-demand digital manufacturing platforms…
Prototype Hubs Launches AI-Driven White Label Manufacturing Software
Prototype Hubs, an artificially intelligent (AI) online advanced manufacturing platform launched its new white label manufacturing software-as-a-service (SaaS). This is a new cloud platform for digital manufacturing which enables businesses…
ZVerse Launches Next Generation of Digital Manufacturing Enablement Platform
South Carolina-based digital manufacturing technology company ZVerse, Inc., which was founded in 2013, developed what it considered the only CAD as a Service (CADaaS) platform for digital manufacturing, which offers service…
Formnext Connect 2020: Carbon & Fast Radius Expand Strategic 3D Printing Partnership
Formnext 2020, called Formnext Connect this year, has officially begun, and will last through Thursday, November 12th. Today during the virtual event, Carbon announced the expansion of a strategic partnership…