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…
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have selected 25 project teams for a $10.5 million program intended to expand the US defense industrial base for metal additive manufacturing. The Joint Additive Qualification for Sustainment – Supplier Qualification Groups 2 and 3 project, or JAQS-SQ, will establish common training and…
Large-format Metal AM company iAM3D has launched the LPW Z2500, a laser directed energy deposition system (L-DED) with a 2000 × 2000 × 2500 mm build envelope. The machine is worth paying attention to for how many capabilities iAM3D is trying to consolidate into one enclosure. The LPW Z2500, the flagship of the company’s XXL…
3DEO, the Torrance, California metal 3D printing company behind the patented Intelligent Layering process, has filed for insolvency and put its entire intellectual property (IP) portfolio up for sale. Insolvency Services Group, acting as assignee for the benefit of creditors under California law, is soliciting offers for the assets, having already received a stalking horse…
Actble, a German dancewear company founded by former ballet dancer Sophia Lindner, has built a modular pointe shoe with 3D printed inner soles that can be individually swapped out as they wear down, rather than requiring dancers to replace the entire shoe every 10 to 20 hours of use. The soles are manufactured in partnership…
3iD Printing, a Belgian industrial 3D printing service provider, is installing an automated post-processing line supplied by Netherlands-based AM-Flow, integrating three systems, AM-Feed, AM-Vision and AM-Sort, to handle part feeding, identification and sorting without manual labeling. Closing the Post-Processing Bottleneck While 3D printing technology has advanced rapidly across the additive manufacturing industry, the steps that…
Spacecraft developer Fortastra is turning to automated manufacturer Hadrian to help it build satellites faster. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) this week laying the groundwork for Hadrian’s precision machining and additive manufacturing capabilities to be applied to Fortastra’s satellite programs, with an eye toward eventual funded prototype work addressing national security…
Northwestern University‘s associate professor of mechanical engineering Tao Sun and collaborators have published new research showing that the atomic-level arrangement of liquid metal, not just cooling rate and temperature gradient, governs how grain structures form during laser additive manufacturing. The findings, published in Nature Communications under the title “Operando X-ray scattering reveals ordering-mediated solidification in…
U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Logistics Group 3D printed a replacement part for a U.S. Coast Guard boat in South Korea on July 11, 2026 during the Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (CJLOTS) 26 exercise, turning a repair that would normally take two to three weeks into a same-day fix that cost about $12. The part,…
