metal additive manufacturing
3Dnatives to Present ADDITIV Metals 2026: Resolving Key Barriers to Scaling Metal Additive Manufacturing
As the metal additive manufacturing sector prepares for a massive leap—with market valuations expected to climb from $6.02 billion to $7.02 billion this year—the industry is shifting its focus from…
AMPulse Asia: Creality IPO Headlines APAC 3D Printing Market Roundup
Asia’s additive manufacturing sector spent the back half of May moving capital and capacity, not just demos. Chinese desktop and consumer printer makers pushed onto public markets, metal powder producers…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explosion Comes During Major Manufacturing Push
Blue Origin‘s orbital New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot-fire test at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral on May 29, setting back the company’s launch ambitions at a time…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 2, 2026: Soft Robots, Agricultural Waste, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start off with a multi-laser metal powder bed fusion 3D printer and post-processing news. We’ll end with research into soft robotics and…
Farsoon’s Fine Laser Spot 3D Printing Gives China a Thermal Management Edge
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems generally utilize lasers with spot sizes that fall into a range of 80 micrometers (μm) to 100μm, although dynamic beam shaping may soon lead to…
BLT Touts 100,000 Copper Parts Made
With the significant volume of copper used in electronics, semiconductors, aerospace, defense, and beyond, copper additive has had immense promise from the early days of copper 3D printing at Beamit…
3D Printing Moves Deeper Into Production as Parts Near $110B by 2034
A new report takes a closer look at how much 3D printing is actually being used in real production. The numbers point to a market that is already growing at…
AM Applications Expected to Reach $110B in 2034, New Report Finds
Additive manufacturing may still be a relatively young industry, but the number of real parts being produced with 3D printing is growing quickly. According to a new report from Additive…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 28, 2026: Sales Partner, Holographic 3D Printing, & More
We’re kicking off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with some business news, as Meltio has announced a sales partner in the U.S. and Immensa has joined Shell’s Energy Transition Campus….
Takeaways From MILAM 2026: Defense’s Growing Role in Driving 3D Printing – Part II
At the recent Military Additive Manufacturing Summit & Technology Showcase (MILAM 2026), additive manufacturing wasn’t just being discussed as a production strategy; it was being packaged for deployment. A big…
Nikon Records $591M Metal AM Write-Down, Maintains Long-Term Focus
Nikon (OTCMKTS: NINOY) has announced a large impairment loss tied to its Digital Manufacturing business, the part of the company that includes metal 3D printing and advanced manufacturing operations. This…
When a Factory Stops Being a Building and Starts Being a Machine
Metal manufacturing still carries the layout and logic of an older industrial age. Most factories run as a collection of isolated disciplines, each with its own equipment, staff, and data….
Takeaways From MILAM 2026: Defense’s Growing Role in Driving 3D Printing – Part I
The annual Military Additive Manufacturing Summit & Technology Showcase (MILAM 2026) once again brought together the defense sector’s top technologists, military leaders, and additive manufacturing (AM) innovators for three days…
Championing a Made-in-America Future for Additive Manufacturing
As the additive manufacturing industry continues its rapid global evolution, one theme has risen to the top of strategic conversations: the importance of strengthening domestic production to support national competitiveness…
VulcanForms Raises $220M as Investors Back Scaled U.S. Metal 3D Printing
VulcanForms has closed a $220 million Series D funding round, a large vote of confidence at a time when investment in 3D printing has become more selective. Investors are backing…
How Metal Additive Manufacturing Is Reshaping the Future of Aerospace and Defense Engineering
Additive manufacturing (AM) is steadily changing the way we think about producing metal parts for aircraft. Whilst aerospace and defense companies have been using metal AM for over twenty years,…
Skuld Brings Additive-Enabled Casting Closer to Production Reality
Over the past decade, much of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) additive manufacturing (AM) strategy has focused on proving that advanced manufacturing could work inside legacy casting environments. Today,…
REM Develops Finishing Process for CP1
Designer aluminums with unique formulations are the Dubai chocolate of the LPBF world. After an early start by Scalmalloy, it is now CP1 that is the heir apparent. Surprisingly perhaps,…
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…
EOS Launches M4 ONYX 3D Printer at Formnext 2025
EOS is steadily establishing itself as an expert in developing dual-use technologies. Now, as I mentioned in a recent interview with Greg Hayes, the Senior VP Global Additive Minds at…
AML3D Lands $3M 3D Printer Deal with Newport News Shipbuilding
Over the summer, Australian additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) AML3D announced that the U.S. Navy had issued a letter of intent (LOI) to the company which signaled the…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 27, 2025: Large-Format Pellet Printing, Recycled Polymers, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with metal coatings for polymer micro 3D printed parts. MELD is releasing its next generation of machines, Modix announced serial production…
BLT on Additive’s Next Chapter: From Novelty to Necessity in China and Beyond
China’s largest metal additive manufacturing (AM) company believes the industry’s next chapter won’t be written in laboratories but on factory floors. And they’re focused on it. Speaking at Formnext Asia…
XJet’s Next Chapter: Stop Grading Ceramics AM by CNC Rules
Most stories about ceramic 3D printing get stuck in comparisons: surface finish vs. CNC, cost vs. molding, powder prices vs. powder-bed systems, etc. XJet’s CEO, Guy Zimmerman, thinks this is…
