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3D Printing Market Reaches $3.45B in Q2 2024, Marking 8.4% Year-Over-Year Growth
The global 3D printing market continued its upward trajectory in the second quarter of 2024, totaling $3.45 billion—a year-over-year increase of 8.4%. Despite a slight sequential decline from $3.47 billion…
3D Printing Markets Grows 8% Year over Year
Despite a market slowdown in 2023, the additive manufacturing (AM) sector continues to grow at a robust rate, according to AM Research. The market analysis firm published its Q1 2024…
GE Additive Transforms into Colibrium Additive in New Brand Move
One of the largest and most compelling companies in the 3D printing industry, GE Additive, has undergone a rebrand. Now, known as Colibrium Additive, the company and its new name…
Gorilla Sports GE’s First 3D Printed Titanium Cast
How do you help a gorilla with a broken arm? Sounds like the start of a bad joke a zookeeper might tell, but it’s an actual dilemma recently faced by…
Boom Supersonic Test Flies Demonstrator Aircraft
Boom Supersonic hopes to revolutionize air travel by reintroducing supersonic passenger flights. The company has amassed over $700 million in funding, with notable contributions from entities like Japan Airlines, and…
Conglomerates Are Auctioning GE Metal 3D Printers and More
As the additive manufacturing (AM) industry continues to slough through its economic downturn, we’ve seen not only smaller firms like Uniformity Labs and Arevo go belly up, but larger entities restructuring in…
Interview: GE Additive Provides Series 3 Metal Binder Jet Update
For another year running, I survived the bustling insanity that is formnext. With a reported 859 exhibitors, 196 speakers, 32,851 visitors (50% international), and 54,000 m² of exhibition space, Europe’s…
Del Toro’s Pinocchio Achieves Stop-Motion First with Metal 3D Printed Metal Puppets
Did you know that the stop-motion puppetry featured in Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 film Pinocchio was accomplished through the use of metal 3D printing? Our story begins in the year…
Space, 3D Printers, and Australian Ambition: The iLAuNCH Revolution Begins
Australia’s iLAuNCH (Innovative Launch, Automation, Novel Materials, Communications, and Hypersonics) initiative, a comprehensive effort to revolutionize space technology, has set its inaugural Trailblazer project into motion. Focused on using cutting-edge…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: BLT, M Holland & Tecnológico de Monterrey
BLT has announced its half year results for 2023 with $2.44 million in profit for the first half year up from a $5.34 million loss last year for the same period….
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 10, 2023
This might possibly be the longest webinar and event roundup we’ve ever done at 3DPrint.com—that’s how many offerings there are this week! I won’t waste your time in this introduction…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 3, 2023
In the 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup this week, 3D Systems continues its roadshow, ASTM International starts a professional certificate course, GE Additive holds a webinar about how binder…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: August 20, 2023
In this week’s roundup of 3D printing webinars and events, Stratasys continues its North American tour, and 3D Systems starts its Additive Insights Roadshow. There’s an Automation Expo in Mumbai,…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 8, 2023: 3D Printed eVTOL Parts, Prosthetics Access, & More
We’re starting with maritime 3D printing news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to construction. There are several collaborations and partnerships to report on in regards…
GE Taps NUBURU for Blue Laser Metal 3D Printing
Since it first entered the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, blue laser manufacturer NUBURU (NYSE American: BURU) has made steady progress introducing its technology to various original equipment manufacturers. The latest…
3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: June 4, 2023
In this week’s roundup, Stratasys has a few stops on its road trip, and TCT 3Sixty is taking place in Birmingham. There are also webinars about automotive 3D printing, electron…
3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: May 7, 2023
We’ve got plenty of in-person and virtual events to tell you about in this week’s roundup, along with webinars on everything from 3D printed eyewear and automated resin removal to…
3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: April 23, 2023
Once again, we’ve got a lot of offerings in this week’s roundup, with Velo3D’s Roadshow making a stop in Denver and TechBlick holding a virtual learning and networking session. There…
End-to-End 3D Printing Software and What it Means for AM in 2023
The year is 2023, and we’re finally on the cusp of the end-to-end additive manufacturing (AM) software dream. This is a moment that we, as an industry, have collectively been…
Meet GE Additive’s New CEO, Alexander Schmitz
GE (NYSE: GE) has announced that it has selected a new CEO for GE Additive, Alexander Schmitz, who will initiate the position on January 16, 2023. Schmitz will report to…
Boom Supersonic Unveils Symphony 3D Printed Engine for Overture Jet, Announces Partners
Boom Supersonic, a Denver-based aerospace startup, has announced that it is using additive manufacturing (AM) to develop its own engine for the company’s currently-in-progress Overture supersonic passenger airliner. Boom is…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Boom Supersonic, Historic Preservation and Creality
Creality is sponsoring an E gaming tournament in Brazil showcasing its attempts to make the 3D printing industry larger. The Historic Erie Preservation Trust, Kidder Jefferys Construction and Gannon University’s I-HACK…
Protolabs’ Largest 3D Printed Metal Part Was Made for Geothermal Energy Extraction
Back in August, I posted about the awards granted by the Department of Energy (DOE) to the first-place winners of the American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Award, one of which was Downhole…
Shell & GE Additive Collaborate on 3D Printed Oxygen Hydrogen Micromixer
At Formnext 2022, Shell and GE Additive presented an R&D project that the two global conglomerates partnered on to design and produce using additive manufacturing (AM): an oxygen hydrogen micromixer,…