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HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering (HVE) and its research partners have completed a 34-month project developing a tool-free, fully recyclable manufacturing process for large-format heavy-duty rail vehicle components.  The team validated the technology by producing two demonstrator parts for Siemens Mobility‘s ICE 3neo (Velaro MultiSystem, Class 408) high-speed train: its nose section and front skirt. The “3D-FiberTrain”…

Internationally licensed maintenance, production and development organization Lufthansa Technik has replaced a damage-prone polymer latch on Airbus A330, A340, and A380 roller shutter assemblies with a redesigned titanium version, produced through metal 3D printing by Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise. The new Ti-6Al-4V latch is manufactured under EN 9100 certification and is now flying on…

How many engineering decisions have been delayed by three to five business days because a functional prototype was sitting in a service bureau’s queue? It’s something nobody tracks formally, but anyone who has outsourced industrial 3D printing knows the arithmetic.  You finalize a design on Tuesday, and by the time you’re holding a functional part,…

Supplier of professional SLA and SLS 3D printing systems Formlabs has appointed Dan Riccio, Apple‘s former Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, as a strategic advisor and investor. The announcement came with a wider reshuffle of the board, including a new chairman, a new president and the departure of co-founder Natan Linder after fifteen years.…

The Advanced Planning and 3D Manufacturing Unit (UPAM3D) at Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, part of the Community of Madrid, has reportedly designed, manufactured and implanted the world’s first personalized metamaterial bone prosthesis. Almost a year after the surgery, the patient, a 38-year-old man treated for a high-grade bone sarcoma in the tibia, has shown…

Australian medical training device company Fusetec, Adelaide University, and the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) have embarked on an $800,000 collaborative research project. The project will develop a new generation of biomimetic dental training models, replicas designed to mechanically respond the way real teeth, jawbone, and soft tissue do under surgical force. The 18-month…

Prusa Research, the Czech manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, has refreshed its current hardware lineup with the Prusa XL+, CORE One L+ and CORE One+ (Gen 2). The updated machines introduce changes intended to improve print preparation, surface quality and maintenance. Common additions include integrated nozzle wipers and new GT1.5 belts, while the XL+ and…

3D printer OEM Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions, nonprofit research facility at the University of Central Florida (UCF), have expanded their 12-year collaboration to provide 3D printed prosthetic devices to children with limb differences, with a renewed focus this year on sustainability, education and wider access. As part of the expansion, Stratasys donated one of its…

Somerset Council’s Library Service has 3D scanned and printed a replica of the Ilminster Ring, a Roman gold artifact dating to 297 AD, ahead of its public unveiling at the Ilminster Roman Ring Discovery Day on Thursday 20 August. The event, organized by South West Heritage Trust and Ilminster Arts Centre, will display both the…

SYZMIK Sports has commercialized the X7C+ Protective Headband, built around what the company calls an industry-first application of 3D printed lattice padding in a flag football and 7v7 headband. Designed by COO Christopher Perra, the $77 headband carries a 5-Star impact rating from the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab and has won the Sport Equipment Design/Innovation…

Motorsport team Black Falcon used a 3D scanner from SHINING 3D to verify that a race car had been correctly rebuilt after suffering a serious crash during the Nürburgring 24 Hours, geometrically inspecting the repaired areas before returning the car to competition at the Nordschleife. The verification is one part of a broader technical partnership…

Shenzhen-based 3D printer maker Creality has released the SPARKX i7 Nano, a desktop 3D printer that adds four-color printing to its i7 series in a smaller form factor. The 3D printer became available August 15, bundled with a new CFS nano Kit, through the Creality US Store. The i7 Nano follows the January launch of…

Automated manufacturer Hadrian has raised $1.37 billion in Series D equity financing at a $7.87 billion valuation, roughly five times where the company stood a year ago. The round is aimed at expanding Hadrian’s factory network and pushing the company beyond precision parts toward delivering complete mission-critical systems for munitions, shipbuilding, and autonomous systems programs.…

South Korean additive manufacturing company LincSolution has launched a three-year international research project to develop mass-production technology for 3D printed heat pump components, targeting entry into the AI data center cooling and electric vehicle thermal management markets. The project, called “Development of Next-Generation Heat Pump Miniaturization Technology,” runs from July 2026 through June 2029 and…

Digital manufacturing service provider Protolabs has awarded a grant to support research fellows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Performance Center (IPC) as they study how leading US manufacturers scale advanced technologies into domestic production. The research will examine why breakthrough technologies developed in the US do not always end up manufactured domestically,…

Rocket Lab has formally established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH, creating the legal vehicle for satellite, payload and component production in Germany and for offering Electron and Neutron launch services to European customers. The entity is headquartered in Munich, where the company already operates following its acquisition of laser communications specialist Mynaric AG. The announcement is…

Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela have been granted a patent, application number 202431068691, for a portable extrusion system that converts recycled plastic waste into composite filament for FDM 3D printing, built at an estimated cost of roughly 45,000 rupees (about $470). The five-member team, drawn from the institute’s mechanical and chemical engineering…

Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) technology developer Continuous Composites, Inc. (CCI) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against three entities associated with the FibreSeek and Anisoprint brands.  Filed on August 7, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, the complaint alleges infringement of ten US patents covering continuous fiber additive manufacturing.…

America Makes, has announced the newly elected members of its Executive Committee for the 2026-28 term. The Executive Committee sets strategy, policy, and advocacy priorities for the organization, whose mission is to accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) and strengthen the country’s global manufacturing competitiveness. Members advise on data management and IP policy, technical scope,…

Rowan University has secured a two-year, $155,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to 3D print living models of chondrosarcoma, a bone cancer that resists both chemotherapy and radiation. Issued under award number R03CA301103, the project will use a bioprinter to deposit tumour cells and mesenchymal stem cells at measured distances inside centimetre-scale hydrogel blocks,…