Decathlon’s performance running brand Kiprun has launched its first 3D printed shoe, the KIPNEXT 3D, joining a growing list of sportswear companies incorporating additive manufacturing into their footwear lines. The brand, created by Decathlon roughly two decades ago, has positioned itself around technical running gear and athlete partnerships, and is now extending that focus into…
German contract manufacturer toolcraft has partnered with industrial AM quality specialist amsight to overhaul how production data is captured, connected, and acted upon across its AM operations. The collaboration places a particular emphasis on semiconductor-related manufacturing, a sector where documentation, consistency, and process repeatability are non-negotiable. Toolcraft is deploying amsight’s digital quality backbone, a platform…
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an automated control system that monitors and corrects errors during large-scale plastic 3D printing as they happen, no human intervention required. The development could give U.S. manufacturers a meaningful edge in producing large, customized parts with less waste and lower production costs. Industrial-scale 3D printing works…
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have developed a new method for growing large-scale human gastrointestinal tissue in the laboratory, one that spontaneously generates its own functional nervous system without requiring the complex, multi-step assembly processes that have long slowed progress in the field. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the work represents a key…
With AMA: Healthcare on June 4th putting 3D printing in medicine under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Orthopedic implant design has progressed steadily over the past five decades, from solid metal blocks to sophisticated lattice structures. Yet revision rates have barely moved, remaining between…
3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare on June 4th. Few technologies have moved as quietly, yet as persistently, into clinical spaces as 3D printing. What once belonged exclusively to engineering labs has gradually found its footing in operating rooms, medical schools, and patient consultations. Rand Kittani, resident physician…
Among the emerging applications of 3D printing in healthcare, regenerative soft tissue reconstruction has seen the least clinical progress and carries some of the highest unmet patient need. Every year, hundreds of thousands of women undergo lumpectomy, the surgical removal of a cancerous breast tumor, and the majority walk away cancer-free. What many also walk…
Desktop 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab published a teaser page for a new product called the A2L, scheduled for reveal on June 1, 2026, at 4 PM CEST. The page includes the tagline “Creative Playground. Extra Large” and the phrase “Stay tuned,” but does not list technical specifications, pricing, or availability. The name places the…
Belgian metal additive manufacturing company AnyShape has been selected as an industrial partner by Airbus Defence and Space for the Eurodrone program. The contract is not a prototype run or a technology demonstration. It covers sustained production volumes over multiple years, under the kind of aerospace-grade quality controls that have historically kept additive manufacturing at…
Voltage Vessels, a Hawaii-based startup founded by Sam Young, has submitted a six-meter 3D printed rigid hull inflatable boat for U.S. maritime defense evaluation, for potential integration into autonomous naval programs. The hull was printed using CEAD’s large-format additive manufacturing system, a Dutch industrial printer used by multiple defense contractors for hull-scale composite production. The…
Airtech Advanced Materials Group and Evergreen Additive have formalized an exclusive supply arrangement to advance large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) in marine and defense contexts. Under the terms of the deal, Airtech will deliver materials, business, and technical guidance to Evergreen, while Evergreen commits to using Airtech products exclusively across all its LFAM work. The…
Researchers Masaru Mukai, Shoji Maruo, and colleagues at Yokohama National University have introduced a photocurable resin that can be printed, melted down, and printed again, more than ten times over, without adding a single chemical along the way. The material, built around the reversible photodimerization of anthracene, could mark a turning point for sustainable high-resolution…
Polish SLS 3D printer manufacturer Sinterit has unveiled BIANCO2, a compact SLS system designed around open material compatibility and broad application flexibility. The announcement builds on over a decade of SLS development and an installed base spanning more than 80 countries. The core proposition of BIANCO2 is its open architecture. Users gain access to up…
Metal complex inks specialist Electroninks has shared the commercial launch timeline for CircuitJet IV, a benchtop system designed to handle PCB fabrication and assembly within a single integrated platform. The company expects it to be available to customers in Q4 2026. The intended user base includes R&D teams, product development groups, universities, and manufacturing facilities…
Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Nano Dimension has agreed to sell its Markforged subsidiary to rival 3D printing company Stratasys in an all-cash deal worth $42.5 million. With this move, the Israeli manufacturer is shedding one of its cash-burning business units as it works through a restructuring plan. The sale is part of a broader divestiture…
Defense and space manufacturing company Snowbird Technologies has been confirmed as a participant in the 30th Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) 2026. The company will take part through the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (NPS CAMRE) and its distributed advanced manufacturing experiment—one of the exercise’s key technology showcases. Scheduled…
Holcim and British International Investment’s (BII) joint venture 14Trees and Chennai-based Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions have jointly developed Cedar concrete 3D printer designed for large-scale construction deployment. Cedar is designed to work with locally available concrete mixes rather than the proprietary mortar-based materials that many existing 3D concrete printing systems require. The companies say this reduces…
With AMA: Healthcare on June 4th putting 3D printing for healthcare under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Tissue models have long been constrained by the same three problems: they take too long to build, they cannot scale meaningfully, and their structure falls short of…
A student team from ETH Zurich‘s Academic Space Initiative Switzerland (ARIS) has successfully ignited a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) using liquid propellants, recording stable detonation waves during a night test at Dübendorf Airfield in Switzerland. The achievement, reached by the 20-strong Pegasus team in early April 2026, places the students in rare company: only…
Hadassah Hospital surgeons have performed what is believed to be the first surgery of its kind in Israel, using two custom 3D printed implants to reconstruct a pelvis and femur almost entirely destroyed by vanishing bone disease, a condition so rare that very few doctors encounter it in an entire career. The patient, a 24-year-old…
