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2024 3D Printing Predictions from the Experts: Surviving the Economic Climate
As 3D printing enters a pivotal year, we’ve consulted top experts in our industry for their predictions on the industry’s trajectory in 2024. While investment appears to be slowing, industrial…
2023 3D Printing Predictions: An Investment Expert’s View on the Future of Additive Construction
In light of economic pressure, global resources shortages, and looming climate goals, the world is seeking cost-effective, fast, and environmentally friendly approaches to long-held practices and processes—the construction sector being…
Five 2023 Predictions for 3D Printing Businesses
At the recent Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance executive meeting, I spoke about the additive market cycle and how, despite the bleak trend over the last few months, we’re actually about to…
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…
2022 Predictions: 3D Printing for Series Production of Metal Parts
It’s time to gaze into the tea leaves and imagine a bright future for 3D printing. In this article, we will be looking specifically at predictions, trends, and developments in…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: December 5, 2021
We’ve got another busy week of webinars and events to tell you about, with topics ranging from aviation and medical 3D printing to a town hall meeting, biomaterials, SLA technology,…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: August 8th, 2021
It’s another quieter week of webinars and in-person events, but there’s still plenty to be learned, from how to increase your production power with SLS 3D printing and working with…
America Makes & AFRL Announce Winners of Metal 3D Printing Prediction Challenge
The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute America Makes, managed and operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) and headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio, was established in 2012…
What does 2020 hold for the world of 3D printing?
The new year brings a fresh beginning, resolutions, and of course predictions. At Blueprint, we work with executives and engineers across the 3D printing industry and beyond. Based on our…
3D Printing News Briefs: January 8, 2020
It’s the first 3D Printing News Briefs of 2020! To celebrate, we’ll start with some predictions for the industry made by three Ultimaker executives. Continuing on, Dassault Systèmes has the…
3D Systems Looks to Increase 3D Printer Efficiency with Aquant’s AI Platform
For the last two years, 3D printing industry giant 3D Systems has been looking into product launches in hardware, materials, and workflow, in order to create more opportunities for additional…
NASA Scientist Develops First 3D Model of Melting Snowflake
From saving lives with weather stations and collecting weather data to studying hail and delivering accurate forecasts, 3D printing and 3D technologies have often been used for applications in weather…
Christmas of the Future Includes 3D Printed Food, Virtual Christmas Trees, and Social Media for Pets
As Christmas approaches, many people are getting ready for the same traditions they celebrate every year. It’s a holiday of tradition, after all – whether that means the fairly universal…
Forecasting the Future
Looking ahead is tricky business. Many try, but most can’t do it well. Predicting what might occur in a year from now is one thing, but looking further out, such…
Additive Manufacturing — The Year Ahead
When Neil Burns founded Croft Filters with his brother Mark, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), was still the stuff of science fiction. Fast forward 28 years and not only have the…
Predictions for Future Include a Healthy Dose of 3D Printing
We’re only a couple of days in to the new year and so the idea of 2016 still feels like the future…and, for now, most of it is. So, without…
3DPrint’s 3D Printing Predictions for 2015
Last May, our team at 3DPrint.com collaborated on a series of predictions for the remainder of 2014. As you may have seen, many of our predictions were spot on, while…
‘In the Year 2054: Rifles will 3D print their own bullets’ – At Least According to Call of Duty Developer
It’s always fun predicting the future. People do it all the time because it is entertaining to imagine a world that we or our children will one day have the…