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The material extrusion market has seen titanic shifts over the past few years. A new bevvy of low-cost 3D printers have turned to software and sensors to make reliable high-speed...

Raise3D is expanding its dependable FDM portfolio to include SLS 3D printing as a manufacturer with industrial ambitions. Under Chief Operations Officer Fernando Hernandez, the company has channelled a large share of its workforce into engineering, while watching low-cost rivals push desktop extrusion into the professional tier. The launch of the RMS220, a 75 watt […]

Over the past decade, much of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) additive manufacturing (AM) strategy has focused on proving that advanced manufacturing could work inside legacy casting environments. Today,...

Dassault Systèmes has spent years selling a platform story. Gian Paolo Bassi, one of its most recognisable product voices, now talks about it less as a roadmap and more as a habit formed under pressure. I visited the company mid-way through a recent start-up accelerator event in London. The pressure, in his telling, comes from […]

Cobra Golf Expands 3D Printed Iron Lineup with MB and X ModelsJanuary 7

ADDMAN has purchased Forecast 3D. Private equity-backed ADDMAN has previously bought Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing, Castheon, Dinsmore, and others to become a major player in metal and polymer additive manufacturing. We...

Additive manufacturing has been formally brought under U.S. defense procurement restrictions through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. Section 849 of the Act prohibits the Department of Defense from entering into contracts for certain additive manufacturing machines produced by entities linked to China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. President Trump signed […]

Researchers from engineering institutions in Bengaluru and Warangal, India, have demonstrated that 3D printed geopolymer monoliths fabricated using Direct Ink Writing (DIW) can remove cadmium from contaminated water while offering significantly improved durability compared with conventional bead-based adsorbents. Published in Scientific Reports, the study evaluates the performance of structured geopolymer adsorption beds under both batch […]

Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology company specializing in advanced energetics and propulsion, has announced an agreement to acquire a DCMA-rated rocket system integration facility in Crawford, Mississippi. The expansion is aimed at increasing U.S. rocket manufacturing capacity and supporting full-rate production of end-to-end rocket systems. The transaction includes the assumption of the facility structure and […]

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and The Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated origami-inspired electromagnetic waveguides that can fold, deploy, bend, and twist while maintaining microwave transmission losses comparable to rigid rectangular waveguides. The work, published on Springer Nature, targets limitations related to fixed geometry and stowage volume in conventional waveguides used in spacecraft, […]

Researchers from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden, a German university of applied sciences with a focus on engineering and materials research, and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden have demonstrated a method to manufacture monodisperse, count-accurate microplastic reference materials using additive manufacturing. The work, published in Nature, shows that microextrusion via modified, commercially […]

Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 is officially in session (January 6-9). As desktop 3D printers are arguably as important to the additive manufacturing (AM) industry today as at...

Nikon’s move into additive manufacturing was not a sudden departure from cameras into fashionably futuristic territory, according to Hamid Zarringhalam, chief executive of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing. It reflects the company’s long industrial lineage, stretching from optics and glass through semiconductor lithography to today’s metal 3D printing ambitions. Zarringhalam spent more than three decades in Nikon’s […]

Cobra Golf, the Californian sports equipment brand, has expanded its metal 3D printed iron lineup with the launch of the 3DP MB and 3DP X models, broadening the company’s use of additive manufacturing across a wider range of golfer skill levels. The two new irons join the existing 3DP Tour set, creating a three-model family […]

At MMX 2025, Ben DiMarco, Technology Transition Director at America Makes, posed a question that resonated deeply across a room filled with additive manufacturing (AM) experts: “How can we trust...

AtomForm, a MOVA Group consumer and professional 3D printing hardware company, has unveiled the Palette 300, a 12-nozzle desktop 3D printer designed for high-speed, multi-color and multi-material printing. The system was announced on January 6, 2026, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where it is being exhibited at the MOVA Group booth in the LVCC […]

Airtech and Alpha Additive Create 3,000 lb LFAM StructureJanuary 6

The rise of high-speed, reliable desktop Material Extrusion and Vat Polymerization systems by Creality, Bambu, Elegoo, and Prusa Research, the onward march of Formlabs in Pro LPBF and VP, as...

Cobra has added two new golf clubs to its lineup. The 3DP MB and 3DP X. Both use 3D printing to make the clubs have “look and feel of forged...

The Maxwell Medical Group’s Dental Flight, the dental unit at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB) in Alabama, is enhancing support for active-duty Airmen by expanding advanced oral surgery services and adopting digital dentistry tools. These upgrades allow the clinic to handle complex procedures in-house, improving efficiency and continuity of care for service members. The core […]