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Insights on additive manufacturing, high-temperature 3D printing, aerospace, medical, and industrial applications.
6K Additive and ADDMAN signed a 30-month Nickel 718 powder deal with revert buy-back. What supply resilience means for your parts.
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The U.S. Navy released PPD 802-8436658, a repeatable pathway to swap cast and wrought submarine parts for 3D printed metal. What changed, what did not, and what it means for any...
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Titomic USA modified a critical defense component for EOS Defense Systems USA in one week using cold spray additive manufacturing. Here is what that turnaround means for anyone ...
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A new Ford patent describes suspension parts with brake fluid and coolant channels printed directly inside them. Here is why parts that cannot be made any other way are the real...
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6K Additive posted record Q2 2026 revenue of $7.1 million, up 63 percent year over year, on aerospace and defense demand for US-made metal powders. Here is what a domestic addit...
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America Makes and NCDMM awarded $10.5 million to 25 project teams to standardize training and audits for metal 3D printing suppliers. Here is what qualification actually means, ...
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Walter Reed's 3D Medical Applications Center just earned FDA clearance for a patient-specific 3D printed titanium cranial plate, believed to be the first implant clearance ever ...
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A Florida startup just unveiled the first full-scale 3D printed nuclear reactor module: a silicon carbide gyroid core designed to run 30 years without refueling. Here is what it...
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University of Utah engineers built a holographic 3D printer that forms tough, seam-free microstructures in about 20 seconds in a single exposure, with no layers. Here is what it...
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LEGO opened Kornmarken Campus, its first dedicated global manufacturing innovation centre, and gave 3D printing a permanent home inside it. What the world's most precise injecti...
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Aalto University researchers 3D printed passive plastic panels that steer wireless signals around walls with zero electronics. Here is how metacrystals work, the numbers behind ...
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NAWCAD and FRCSW are flight-testing 3D-printed composite patches that could cut F/A-18 Super Hornet repair times by about 50 percent. Here is what the Navy's forward-deployed pr...
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A U.S. military test center cut custom fixture lead times from weeks to about six hours with FDM 3D printing. Here is what on-demand jigs, fixtures, and scanning mean for makers...
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Lumafield's new Neptune Performance and Triton Performance industrial CT scanners bring fast X-ray inspection from the lab to the factory floor. Here is what seeing inside a par...
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Two new June 2026 studies show cameras and AI building digital twins of 3D prints and catching defects mid-build. Here is what in-process monitoring means for makers and enginee...
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DDM Systems commercially launched its Digital Foundry, a tool-free investment casting platform that prints ceramic shells with UV light and promises castings in days instead of ...
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Open Bionics fitted the first full-length, above-elbow 3D printed bionic arm. Here is what the modular, custom-fit Hero Flex teaches makers and engineering buyers about additive...
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EPFL's holographic volumetric printing (TVAM) is now about 70x more efficient, growing whole objects at once inside a vial of resin using shaped light. Here's what the breakthro...
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Princeton engineers used multi-material 3D printing and a deep-sea glass sponge to make concrete up to 187 times tougher. Here is what Architected Cementitious Composites mean f...
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The US Air Force is adding 3D printed microvanes to every C-17, projecting about $14M a year in fuel savings. Here is what putting functional additive parts on a fleet aircraft ...
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A new wave-based path-planning method lets FDM printers make steep overhangs up to 90 degrees with no supports, using only a slicer change. Here is what it means for makers and ...
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NIST researchers used laser stirring to let metal 3D printers mix alloys on demand mid-build. Here is what programmable-composition printing means for engineering parts and the ...
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ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery cut part costs 42% and lead time from six weeks to under sixty hours by redesigning a titanium component for metal DED 3D printing. Here is wha...
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A new study looks at adding wood dust to PLA for more sustainable 3D printing filament. Here is what the research means for print quality, strength, and whether bio-filled filam...
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DC Additive Pros is opening its bench to the industry. We run engineering polymers in production every day, and we will put your 3D printing or additive manufacturing product th...
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Foaming filaments like LW-PLA and PEBA expand as they print to make parts up to 50 percent lighter. Here is how active foaming works, where it shines for RC and lightweight buil...
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Polymaker's Fiberon PPS-GF20 brings UL94 V0 flame-retardant, glass-filled PPS to desktop FDM. Here is what it does well, the process limits that trip people up, and when a part ...
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Bambu Lab's new A2L brings large-format, multi-color 3D printing to $469. Here is what it does well, where its 300C single hotend stops, and when to step up to PEEK and ULTEM pr...
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A plain-English round-up of the biggest machines and themes from RAPID + TCT 2026 in Boston, and what they mean for shops printing real production parts.
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From FDA-cleared 3D-printed PEEK skull implants to metal grown 20x stronger and aerospace quietly going additive, here are the 2025 breakthroughs that matter and what they mean ...
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Additive manufacturing is transforming aerospace, medicine, and defense. Learn how 3D printing with PEEK and ULTEM is enabling space exploration, patient-specific implants, and ...
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