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In the summer of 2025, the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) opened a new advanced manufacturing facility at Schofield Barracks, the Hawaiian home of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division. INDOPACOM...

A friend of mine, Ed Davis, once pointed out the level of strategic replication in additive. I wasn’t aware of it before and haven’t been able to unsee it since....

Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new way to 3D print materials that can move on their own, bending, twisting,...

The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded Nikon AM Synergy, a contract under the JAMA IV IDIQ Pilot Parts Program, bringing the company into the US military’s AM supply chain as a direct production partner. The DLA is using this pilot to determine whether additive manufacturing can reliably replace conventional production methods for critical…

3D Printed Copper Cold Plates Could Cut Data Center Cooling Energy by 98%May 8

Materialise (Euronext and NASDAQ: MTLS) started 2026 with stable revenue, stronger margins, and better operating profit, helped by growth in medical and improved profitability in software. The Belgian 3D printing...

Collaboration between emerging technology enterprises and research universities is one of the most consistently winning tactics for any nation building (or rebuilding) an industrial ecosystem. It’s an especially constructive approach...

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with a strategic collaboration to advance next-generation metal additive manufacturing (AM), before moving on to funding for surgical research. We’ll end with...

Researchers 3D Print Glowing Shapes Using Bioluminescent Algae Embedded in HydrogelMay 7

Revopoint POP 4 Launches on Kickstarter: Hybrid Blue Laser and Infrared 3D Scanner from $579May 7

A product designer has a discontinued component on her desk, something a client needs replicated exactly. The geometry is all there in the physical part. What’s missing is a reliable way to turn it into a file, because the scanners she’s tried before either wash out on the polished metal finish or lose tracking on…

Icelandic software startup Euler has released Euler Viewer, a browser-based tool that gives metal 3D printing operators live visibility into their builds at no cost, with no hardware required. Each laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) build generates thousands of high-resolution images, one after every layer. Until now, that data has had nowhere useful to go.…

US-based AI company Anthropic has released eight Claude AI connectors letting users control creative and design software, including Autodesk Fusion, Blender, and SketchUp, through natural language conversation. For additive manufacturing, this means engineers can create and iterate on 3D models, automate repetitive design tasks, and coordinate files across the production pipeline. Most of that time…

With the US turning its back on exquisite, expensive military goods in favor of volume manufacturing of less expensive items, new strategies should come to the fore. But attritable $250,000...

SWISSto12 is to work with HPS/LSS. High Performance Space Structure Systems and Large Space Structures are two separate firms that work together on large antenna reflectors. The two will work...

Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) kicked off 2026 with a strong quarter, showing steady growth, better margins, and improving customer engagement, even though some parts of the business, especially 3D printing in...

SWISSto12, a Switzerland-based satellite communications company, has awarded a contract to German space subsystem consortium HPS/LSS for a large deployable reflector subsystem for the NEASTAR-1 mission. The reflector will be integrated with SWISSto12’s HummingSat small geostationary satellite platform. According to the company, the mission will enable direct-to-device media broadcasting capabilities from geostationary orbit, supporting direct-to-device…

The way that manufacturers produce goods is changing, concerning both the techniques involved, as well as the overarching strategies which organize those techniques into systems of output. Additive manufacturing (AM)...

From Reddit’s 3D printed Minis community, we learned that the government of Canada has released a 3D printing library of military vehicle Minis. Now this may seem to be a...

Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Elegoo (Shenzhen SmartPie Technology Co., aka SmartPie) has completed a B+ round of financing worth over 500 million yuan ($73.3 million). The round was jointly backed by Meituan and its investment arm, Dragon Ball, alongside Guoce Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Minghui Zhiyuan Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Shanghai High-Tech Investment Group, and Yintai…