Additive Manufacturing UK (AMUK) said during the recently concluded 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow that many of the performance-critical components in competition were additively manufactured. These parts were built into handlebars, swimming equipment, or adapted gear for para-sport athletes. One member company whose work illustrates this is 76 Additive, a 3D printing service provider founded…
The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) has received an $8 million award from the National Science Foundation to establish the Nebraska Center for 3D Innovation (NE3D), a statewide hub for developing 3D printed healthcare technology. The funding comes through NSF’s E-RISE program (Research Incubators for STEM Excellence), part of the agency’s Established Program to…
San Francisco-based Backflip AI has made its AI copilot for CAD generally available, releasing it as an add-in for Autodesk Fusion and as a standalone web application. The company’s second-generation foundation model converts 3D scans, STL files and other mesh data into fully editable parametric CAD models with complete feature trees, cutting the cost of…
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected the winning teams for Delta Qual 2.0, a $9 million project call aimed at cutting the qualification barriers that slow additive manufacturing adoption across the U.S. defense industrial base. Three teams, led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal, Auburn University, and The…
Philadelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan made history on July 23, 2026, becoming the first footballer to wear a fully 3D printed boot in a top-level competitive match. The 16-year-old debuted Adidas’ Project R.A.P. (Radical Athlete Perception) football boot during Philadelphia’s 3–1 MLS victory over the New York Red Bulls, wearing a pair custom-printed to the…
Specialty pharmaceutical company PharmaTher Holdings is collaborating with Craft Health Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based pharmaceutical technology company, to test whether Craft Health’s CraftMake 3D printing platform can produce personalized peptide doses. PharmaTher Holdings announced the partnership on July 29, 2026, two days after launching its Personaliz3D Peptides division. The work will focus on six peptides:…
The Barnes Global Advisors (TBGA) has been contracted by Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. (BPMI) to support the development and management of a materials and process database for additive manufacturing (AM). The results are expected to be made public, a move intended to help align qualification efforts across the wider AM industry. BPMI, a prime contractor…
USA Diving has named Indianapolis-based FITASY, a maker of 3D printed custom-fit recovery footwear, as its official footwear partner. The partnership launched at the Bolzano Diving Meeting in Bolzano, Italy, on July 3, 2026, where National Team athletes and coaches wore FITASY’s Strides on the pool deck during competition. USA Diving announced the deal on…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket clearance to a 3D printed titanium cranial plate developed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, marking the first time the agency has cleared an implant produced by a point-of-care institution. The clearance, listed under submission number K253116, covers the 3D Medical Applications Center’s (3D…
Global engineering firm Renishaw has introduced LIBERTAS, a new software technology for its RenAM 500 series metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems that targets two persistent challenges in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF): rough downskin surfaces and reliance on support structures. Support structures in LPBF manage heat and distortion during a build, but they also add…
The Elmet Group’s subsidiary Elmet Technologies is installing a DMP Flex 350 Triple metal 3D printer from 3D Systems to produce heat exchangers for hypersonic vehicles. According to 3D Systems, the company expects to qualify and certify the system to begin production in 2026. The deployment follows eight years of joint development between Elmet and…
3D printed footwear company Zellerfeld has relaunched its website and marketplace at zellerfeld.com, rolling out what the company is calling its biggest platform update since it opened its printing service to outside designers. The redesign, unveiled July 21, 2026, rebuilds how the site presents products, expands a personal fit system across the platform, and previews…
The National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Company (NAMI), a Saudi Arabian joint venture between 3D Systems, Dussur, and Saudi Energy, has been granted a Military Manufacturing License by the Kingdom’s General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI). The license places NAMI among a limited group of Saudi firms cleared to carry out regulated military manufacturing activity…
UPM Group built a fully 3D printed exhibition stand for EuroShop 2026, the retail industry’s largest international trade fair, held in Düsseldorf, Germany. The roughly 100 m² installation combined 3D printed architectural structures with custom furniture pieces, all produced additively. The stand was manufactured through a joint effort between UPM Group’s production sites in Modena,…
Berlin-based company GEFERTEC has launched arcTitan, a wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) system built specifically for titanium processing, combining a fully enclosed inert gas atmosphere with a plasma-based deposition process. The company says the system achieves stable, reproducible process control by holding oxygen levels inside the build chamber to between 10 and 15 parts per million…
More than half of the exhibition floor for MACH 2028 has already been booked as general sales opened, with organizers urging companies to secure space before the event’s early bird discount deadline. More than 13,000 square meters of stand space has been reserved nearly two years ahead of the UK manufacturing technology show, which returns…
TAAG Global and the University of Bristol Business School have announced a joint intelligence platform called the Advanced Manufacturing Observatory. Its aim is to provide manufacturers and investors with business model frameworks, commercial strategies, and market intelligence. A first major event, the TAAG Leaders Forum, is scheduled for Q4 2026 at Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise…
Italian 3D printer manufacturer Kentstrapper has launched the Mille, a large-format FDM system with a 1,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm build volume. Previewed at Mecspe 2026 in Bologna, the machine is now commercially available from €40,000 plus VAT. Each unit is made to order at Kentstrapper’s facility in Florence. The company is targeting automotive,…
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has awarded Phase3D a role in a new program aimed at proving that metal additively manufactured parts can be qualified for spaceflight during production. The program will generate more than 50,000 individually inspected build layers on a production-scale EOS M300-4 quad-laser system, creating one of the largest in-situ inspection datasets…
TE Connectivity has introduced an automated 3D printing process for producing catheter shafts, replacing a manual assembly step used across the industry. It was developed by the Advanced Technology Group in TE’s Medical business at the PROPELUS Prototype Center in Galway, Ireland. The step it replaces exists because a catheter shaft is not uniform along…
