Shares of Nike stock hit all-time highs in late 2021 but have cratered in the years following, with the company losing nearly 80 percent of its market cap since peaking. Even so, it is still obviously a very large corporation, although if this downward spiral continues much longer, the “very” would have to be dropped,
Gordie Folin had deep experience in engineering at Pratt & Whitney, GE, and GE Aviation before becoming the Chief Product Officer at Beehive Industries. Among his achievements, he served as the Executive Director of the groundbreaking Catalyst engine program, which extensively used additive manufacturing. Now at Beehive, he’s in charge of making a family of 3D
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series by Xu Fanglei examining the technology and patent issues behind the Stratasys-Bambu Lab dispute. Part 1 looked at the $27.6 million U.S. verdict and the purge-tower technology at the center of the case. Part 2 examines the related European proceeding, the continuing U.S. patent challenges,
In 2023, Chinese 3D printer OEM Bambu Lab launched MakerWorld, its collaborative 3D model platform. By early 2026, the platform had about 10 million monthly active users and started to expand its role beyond just a model-sharing website. This month, Bambu partnered with seven top accessibility organizations that use 3D printing to launch a global
We’re starting off with defense in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Titomic was awarded a $5 million U.S. defense contract, and VulcanForms announced a partnership with Specter Aerospace for air breathing hypersonics manufacturing. Moving on, we’ve got automotive news from Hyundai and ExOne. We’ll end with two news items from Snapmaker. Read on
As a child, I lived in Kenya for a while. When we went to Mombasa, wafting breezes, crunchy white powder that sounds like snow underfoot, beaches bordered by many unseen blues, we had to take malaria medication. Beneath the gauzy beige of my mosquito net, I hallucinated. Sweat baubles on my body, I saw purple
After years of buildup, we’re finally starting to see what the US metal additive manufacturing (AM) market could look like at scale. To be sure, it’s still not quite there, outside certain pockets of robust growth. But the groundwork has been laid, and features of a mature market are gradually starting to emerge. One takeaway
Zetamix’s metal 3D printing solution is to be used aboard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The $3 billion carrier, built in 2002, has a complement of 1350 and an additional 600 troops working on the aircraft. Capable of carrying up to 30 aircraft, the carrier is special because precious few countries can operate
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with defense news, first from Massivit and then from AML3D. Then we’ll move on to U.S. manufacturing of a new large-format LPBF system by Fives AddUp, and end with an AI platform for design custom 3D printable PCB enclosures. Massivit Announces Expansion of RapidWings Platform in North
I recently wrote about how the South Korean additive manufacturing (AM) firm Lincsolution is building an aerospace and defense hub, part of the company’s construction of “the largest AM facility in South Korea”, a 200,000+ square foot facility that Lincsolution plans to open in December. I discussed that development in the context of signs of rising
