The U.S. Department of War (DoW) has been telling anyone who will listen that the Pentagon is making major changes to how it procures equipment. In a recent speech at...
Known for setting industry standards, ASTM used this year’s Formnext to launch a global, seven-part initiative to help 3D printing move faster from research to the factory floor. ASTM focused...
Walking through Autodesk’s Technology Center in Boston, I’ve come to expect surprises. One second, it’s MIT engineers pushing concrete printers to their limits, the next it’s Harvard architects stitching stone...
Daniel Gidlund leads Freemelt, a company that has been steadily establishing its place in metal AM with open-source thinking and a clear technical vision. In this episode, he walks us...
After a week of big announcements and impressive launches, social media posts captured another side of Formnext 2025. Alongside all the technical highlights and product news, people online were sharing...
We’ll start with a new software tool from AON3D in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then we’ve got a lot of business, from Conflux Technology and Prima Additive to...
Every year, the U.S. Navy runs an exercise called Trident Warrior to test new technologies under real operating conditions. In 2025, the biggest surprise was how central 3D printing became....
Over the years, researchers in additive manufacturing have been working on different hydrogel systems for scaffolds, supports, and parts. Others have worked on different forms of growing 3D prints, while...
It’s the final day of Formnext 2025! If you’re still on the show floor today, make sure to visit the following companies to see all of their latest AM material...
Colibrium Additive, the GE Aerospace-owned metal AM business, was at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt this week to introduce its latest machine upgrade: a 4 × 1 kW version of the...
Earlier this year, Authentise, the manufacturing workflow software provider based in the UK and Philadelphia, announced that it was working on a collaborative engineering platform called Project DDNA, a defense-oriented...
When Materialise launched its CO-AM platform about three years ago, the company aimed to leverage cloud-based engineering capabilities to enhance the openness of the additive manufacturing (AM) software experience and...
The announcements from Formnext 2025 keep rolling in, giving some of us who aren’t attending major FOMO (me, it’s me). But with all of the exciting news we’re sharing with...
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...
ExOne and voxeljet, now both part of ExOne Global Holdings, have launched a unified global service network for their industrial binder jet 3D printers. The idea is to have one...
It’s Day 2 of Formnext 2025, where over 800 exhibitors from around the world have converged in Frankfurt for Europe’s premier additive manufacturing (AM) trade show. From exciting new printers...
Aibuild will partner with Reichenbacher Hamuel to bring to market multi-axis CNC hybrid tools with AI toolpathing. Aibuild is well known, of course, as a 3D printing software firm that connects...
You know Ursa Major, the Colorado-based specialist in propulsion technologies that leverages additive manufacturing (AM) to create a wide range of motors for customers in the defense and space industries....
AFM Capital Partners has acquired Owens Industries through its portfolio company, Pro Products, adding one of Wisconsin’s leading ultra-precision CNC machining companies to its manufacturing platform. Owens makes very accurate,...
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