industrial manufacturing
3D Printing Financials: Xometry, Protolabs, and Lincoln Electric Post Strong Quarters
The latest earnings reports from Xometry (Nasdaq: XMTR), Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB), and Lincoln Electric (Nasdaq: LECO) suggest manufacturers are still spending. All three companies reported solid results, although each tells…
Who’s Asking the Questions? A Look at Additive Manufacturing’s Financial Analysts
Every earnings season, executives at publicly traded additive manufacturing (AM) companies face questions from Wall Street. While the companies change strategies, launch new products, or enter new markets, many of…
How the World’s Most Advanced Tech Companies Are Using 3D Printing
3D printing has been around for decades. For most of that time, it was a prototyping tool. Engineers used it to check if a design looked right before spending money…
Why Beam Control Could Redefine the Future of EB-PBF
In Part 1, Ulf Lindhe examined how advances in beam control, point melting strategies, and process monitoring are changing the way engineers think about electron beam powder bed fusion (EB-PBF)….
CEO Yoav Zeif on Why Stratasys’ Markforged Acquisition Is Really a Bet on Industrialization
When Stratasys announced plans to acquire Markforged, the immediate focus was on the deal. Markforged is one of the most recognizable names in additive manufacturing (AM), known for its continuous…
3D Printing Financials: Xometry Surges After Record Quarter and Siemens Deal
Shares of Xometry (Nasdaq: XMTR) surged on Thursday, May 7, after the company reported record first-quarter 2026 results and announced a major partnership with Siemens. The stock climbed as much…
When Castings Take 18 Months: How 3D Printing Helped Fix the Soo Locks
This article is Part II of a two-part series on Lincoln Electric’s large-format metal additive manufacturing operations. In Part I, we looked at how Lincoln Electric built one of the…
Lincoln Electric’s Big Metal Bet: Using WAAM 3D Printing to Replace Castings
When heavy industry runs into a parts problem, the bottleneck usually isn’t machining; it’s often castings and forgings. Those processes, essential for making large, heavy-duty metal components, can take months…
3D Printing Stocks in 2025: Performance and Market Trends
In 2025, the best-performing 3D printing stocks weren’t mostly the classic Western printer makers. Some of the strongest performers were digital manufacturing platforms and software-intensive players; these are businesses that…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 2, 2025: Acquisition, LFAM, & More
We’re starting off with business news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Hanger announced its impending acquisition of Point Designs. Meltio shared several industrial use cases for its…
Strategic Advantage of 3D Printing in a Time of Import Tariffs
The value of 3D printing in mitigating the impact of import tariffs is often underestimated. Now is the time to leverage 3D printing to adapt and profit from the opportunities…
Reshoring Resources for Additive Manufacturing
Reshoring is the process of returning the production and manufacturing of goods to the company’s original country. According to a 2024 article by Forbes, approximately 66% of U.S. companies outsource…
BASF Spins out 3D Printing Business Forward AM — Analysis
BASF is spinning out its Forward AM 3D printing materials unit. Current CEO Martin Back will lead a management buyout of the firm, which will include the Sculpteo business and…
The Future of Additive Manufacturing 3.0? – AMS Speaker Spotlight
Industrial Manufacturing 4.0 When introduced, new ideas, new processes, and new technologies are usually met with a “wow” reaction. Unfortunately, mainstream skepticism often turns the “wow” into a “whoa.” Most…
Procter & Gamble Reveals How 3D Printing Improves Its Manufacturing Operations
The world largest manufacturers have already used 3D printing for some time, if not directly then through their supply chain partners. However, the value additive manufacturing (AM) provides is beginning…
Desktop Metal Focuses on Industrial 3D Printing with New ETEC Brand
At the very beginning of 2021, Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) announced that it had acquired photopolymer 3D printing leader EnvisionTEC for $300 million in stock and cash. At the time,…
3D Printing Keynotes, Thought Leadership Panels, 250+ Exhibitors, & More at RAPID + TCT 2021
Everybody who’s anybody in the additive manufacturing industry is getting ready for RAPID + TCT 2021, being held at McCormick Place in Chicago from September 13-15. This is the 30th…
Upon Protolabs Acquisition, 3D Hubs Becomes “Hubs”
After building up a significant business starting in 2013, 3D Hubs was acquired by Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) in January 2021. As the startup becomes fully integrated into the larger manufacturing…
Azoth and Rize Partner to Provide the Additive Indirect Supplies Crib
One of 3D printing’s greatest contributions has been its ability to allow people to create in ways that have never been possible before, from small-scale productions that measure in nanometers…
