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United Utilities Expands 3D Printing for Water Infrastructure OperationsJune 24

New Frontier Aerospace Successfully Tests 3D-Printed Rocket EngineJune 24

Somerset Community College (SCC), a Kentucky-based institution known for its applied engineering programs, will host a public demonstration of Floodbuster 1, the state’s first 3D printed concrete structure. The event will take place on Friday, June 27, at the KCTCS Additive Manufacturing Center in Somerset, with remarks beginning at 10:30 AM. Print operations will remain […]

Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing, a specialist in metal 3D printing and advanced materials, has. delivered its 25,000th 3D printed suppressor this month from its state-of-the-art, 125,000 square-foot facility in Huntersville, North Carolina, USA. Fabricated using Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion ((PBF-LB) and Oerlikon MetcoAdd nickel powder, these single-piece suppressors highlight additive manufacturing’s role in defense hardware. […]

Secure your spot now for exclusive AM insights at our Additive Manufacturing Advantage online conference covering aerospace, space, and defense! British water company United Utilities is scaling up its use of 3D printing after completing a two-year programme that brought the technology into practical use across the water sector. The effort marked a shift from pilot trials […]

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth, University of Greenwich, and City St. George’s University of London have successfully 3D printed nacre-inspired composites using a multi-material inkjet-based 3D printing process that integrates hard and soft polymers with precise architectural control. Published in Scientific Reports in February 2025, the study investigates how material interface quality and print […]

Northumbria University, based in the UK, has been awarded over €250,000 through the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship to support research into sustainable manufacturing methods for low-carbon, 3D printed construction materials. Under this grant, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jyotirmoy Mishra will join the Northumbria team to develop geopolymer mortars derived from agricultural and industrial […]

A new congressional report accompanying the U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2026 defense budget recommends the creation of a nationwide network of dual-use factories. Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Defense would establish a Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network (CRMN)—a system of facilities designed to produce commercial goods during peacetime and switch to weapons during […]

FRCE Innovation Lab Creates Rapid Solution for F-35 FleetJune 23

Etsy’s New 3D Printing Restrictions: What Sellers Need to KnowJune 23

In a year already filled with headline-making partnerships, 3D printing startup Zellerfeld has now teamed up with one of the biggest names in sneaker culture: Sean Wotherspoon. Known for his...

Vietnamese hospital network Vinmec has completed a Total Femoral Replacement surgery on a pediatric patient. Using a 3D printed personalized implant, the eight-year-old patient’s osteosarcoma was treated. The modular implant...

If you’ve ever peeked behind the scenes of a 3D printing lab, you might have caught a glimpse of the post-processing room; maybe it’s messy, maybe hidden behind a mysterious...

Rich Garrity is the Chief Business Officer of Stratasys. Rich shares Stratasys´ vision and future with us. We talk about machines, applications, clients, and the market in general. What technologies...

Agenda setting ceramics 3D printing event AM Ceramics is returning to Vienna, Austria on 21–22 October 2025 for its 10th edition, bringing together leading voices in ceramic additive manufacturing at the TUthe Sky rooftop venue, at the heart of Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien).  Organized by Lithoz, the conference continues to serve as a […]

Precision Additive, a new US-based additive manufacturing company, is betting on an overlooked metal to address critical defense and aerospace challenges: magnesium.  The company is developing a novel metal 3D printing architecture designed to unlock industrial-scale use of magnesium, a material prized for its lightweight and vibration-dampening properties but hindered by processing difficulties and dwindling […]

Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have developed 3D printed models from patient-derived cells to simulate motor neurons in the lab. These structures, known as motor neuron organoids, are expected to support research into neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and help explore treatment strategies without the need for invasive procedures. Understanding ALS […]

Secure your spot now for exclusive AM insights at our Additive Manufacturing Advantage online conference covering aerospace, space, and defense! A new coral reef restoration initiative in Aqaba, Jordan, is combining large-scale 3D printing with marine biology in an effort to counter the rapid decline of coral ecosystems. Led by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the […]

Inexpensive desktop 3D printing extrusion has always been an impactful potential ally to 3D Printing users. Filabot and 3Devo have been trying to make this a reality for years, with...

Ukrainian startup Lemki Robotix, in collaboration with German 3D printing firm iSCALE 3D and Czech robotics company Zeykan Robotics, has developed a fully 3D printed off-road autonomous robot constructed entirely from recycled materials, which is reported as the first of its kind.  Unveiled as a proof-of-concept at the 3D Print Expo in Lyon, France, the […]