Beehive Industries, the Denver-based maker of additively manufactured jet engines for uncrewed defense systems, is investing $70 million to expand its Southwest Ohio operations, creating more than 200 new jobs. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, JobsOhio and REDI Cincinnati joined the company to announce the expansion this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK,…
New Mexico State University’s DREAM Research Center has wrapped its third summer of training K-12 educators from southern New Mexico in 3D printing, running its Additive Manufacturing Personal Development (AMPD) workshop to bring hands-on additive manufacturing skills into local classrooms. Faculty from the center worked with teachers over a multi-day hybrid session at NMSU’s Aggie…
Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft engine manufacturer owned by RTX, has completed demonstration testing of a TJ150 expendable engine in which nearly 60% of the engine by volume was produced using additive manufacturing. The company is using the technology to simplify the TJ150 design and support faster production. Announced at the Farnborough International Airshow, the…
Belgium-based Safran Aero Boosters has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney to qualify and deliver large-scale, highly complex components for the F135 engine that powers the F-35 Lightning II. The deal was formalized at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 22, 2026, in the presence of Theo Francken, Belgium’s Minister of Defence, and Adrien…
Supermaterial applications company Lyten has been named the primary filament supplier for American aerospace and defense company Modovolo’s BFP platform, a transportable 3D printer built to manufacture aerospace, motorsports, and defense-grade parts outside traditional factory settings. The companies announced the partnership as a joint push toward a fully domestic additive manufacturing supply chain, from raw material…
Researchers at IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid, working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have developed an algorithm that detects hidden behavioral differences between supposedly identical 3D printers and automatically decides how to correct for them. The work, published in Advanced Engineering Informatics, targets a problem that grows worse as manufacturing scales: even…
GKN Aerospace has won a series of multi-year repair contracts from Pratt & Whitney covering more than 20 component types across the geared turbofan (GTF) engine family. The agreements run 5 to 10 years and distribute work across GKN facilities in Sweden, Malaysia, and the United States. The contract scope is broad, spanning engine cases,…
Last month, Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Nano Dimension signed a non-binding term sheet to merge with Infinite Epigenetics, an AI-powered preventive health and diagnostics company, in a proposed deal valued at $890 million. If completed, the transaction would mark the formal end of Nano’s decade-long presence in the additive manufacturing sector, and the beginning of…
Roughly 170 practitioners in robotic large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) attended the inaugural Addidex Connect event, held on June 30 and July 1, 2026 at 3D Makers Zone in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The two-day gathering was organized around robotic additive manufacturing (AM) workflows, bringing together designers, engineers, software developers, material specialists, researchers, machine builders and production…
A technique that 3D prints an entire object at once, instead of building it up layer by layer, has a heat problem. Researchers at the University of Nottingham, working with the University of California, Berkeley, say they’ve found a fix. The method in question forms a complete object in seconds by shining patterned light into…
Designer Laura Civetti wants clothing to stop being something the body simply wears and start being something it collaborates with. Her latest project, Adaptive System, is a “data-driven clothing research methodology” that folds physiological and biomechanical data, sweating, posture, skin sensitivity, curvature, sun exposure, into the design of a garment, then reproduces the result with…
The Utrecht-based filament maker Polymaker has launched HT-PLA Pro, a tougher version of its heat-stable HT-PLA filament aimed squarely at the two complaints that have followed high-temperature PLA since it first reached desktop printers: it snaps too easily, and its layers don’t always hold together under load. Polymaker says the new material more than doubles…
Indian private rocket company Skyroot Aerospace‘s Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18 powered in part by a cluster of 3D printed engines, a detail that turns India’s first private orbital launch into a milestone for additive manufacturing as much as for spaceflight. The rocket’s fourth stage, a liquid-propellant Orbital Adjustment Module, ran on Raman-1 engines…
The Advanced Technologies in Design and 3D Printing Unit (UTADI 3D) at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid has become the first public unit in Spain to hold a dual manufacturing license and dual certification, one for design, one for manufacturing, for each family of custom medical devices. The recognition follows an expansion of…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has retrieved the fifth sample produced by the first metal 3D printer ever sent to space, and prepared the machine for its next print run later this year. Adenot is flying ESA’s εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station, where the printer, a technology demonstrator delivered by ESA in 2024, has…
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have built a 3D printed flow battery cell that costs around £75 to make, against the £2,000–£3,000 a commercial lab-grade equivalent typically runs, and are giving the design away for free to labs worldwide. Dr Hugh O’Connor and Dr Josh Bailey, from the university’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,…
GKN Aerospace and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney have signed a Technology Development Agreement to additively manufacture a large-scale engine case for the F135, the engine that powers the F-35 Lightning II. Announced at the Farnborough Air Show on 20 July 2026 and backed by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA), the program targets a first…
A generative AI platform focused on 3D content Meshy has closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, labeled as the largest round raised by a company built specifically for AI 3D generation and the company’s first publicly disclosed valuation. The round drew participation from every existing investor alongside new…
Miami-based Kind Designs, which 3D prints concrete seawalls designed to function as marine habitat, has closed a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, doubling a round it originally set at $5 million after investor interest reached nearly $20 million. The company has now raised $21.5 million in total. NBA forward Kyle Kuzma…
Hexagon‘s Portable Metrology Division has introduced a reverse engineering workflow for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) teams that connects its ATLASCAN Pro handheld 3D scanner directly to Geomagic Design X software. The company says the combination lets engineers rebuild a CAD model up to eight times faster than with mainstream CAD tools, addressing a common…
