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Rejoice, ye process engineers! Your raised concerns do not go in vain. Additive manufacturing (AM) materials qualification is genuinely becoming the central focal point for commercialization efforts in the industry’s metals market segment. Of course, depending on whose perspective one takes into account, it could be argued that, already for years, materials qualification has been […]

Metal additive manufacturing company 3DEO is being dismantled. On Tuesday, August 18, the remaining machinery at the company’s Torrance, California, factory went up for sale in an online auction. The sale, run by auctioneer Brian Testo Associates through the BidSpotter platform, listed hundreds of items from 3DEO’s metal additive manufacturing operation. Bidding began closing at

Let’s look at what matters when we make things that matter. What considerations are there, what is important, what affects cost? Look at the levers in laser powder bed fusion, sintering, and MJF, to see what can make or break a 3D printing business. The point is to give you an idea of the major

Creality (HKG: 3388) is expecting to report a loss for the first half of 2026, just months after the 3D printer maker went public in Hong Kong. In a profit warning filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Creality said it expects a loss of between RMB 53 million ($7.9 million) and RMB 63 million

Hi3D, the all-in-one AI 3D creation platform, has launched Hi3D V3.0, the industry’s first commercially available AI 3D model with 2048³ voxel resolution. The new version is designed to dramatically reduce the manual mesh repair required before a model enters production workflows in 3D printing, gaming, film, industrial design, and other applications. Hi3D V3.0 increases

The first half of August brought a wave of factory plans, plant openings, and qualification work across the Asia-Pacific additive manufacturing market. Highlights include a RMB 200 million print farm planned in Boluo with 6,500 Bambu Lab machines, T&R Biofab announcing FDA 510(k) clearance for a 3D-printed cranial implant, Lohia Aerospace committing between $8 and

Additive manufacturing suppliers have competed on technology for most of the past two decades. Laser count, build volume, build rate, and process monitoring defined the pitch, and for a long time these were a reasonable proxy for customer value. Between 2020 and 2025, the ground under that logic shifted. This article examines what the equipment

Romain Kidd was MyMiniFactory‘s CEO and helped that company grow in a crowded market of people sitting between “the cloud,” communities, and 3D printing. We talk about how MyMiniFactory was founded, grew, and now found a surprising niche in tabletop games and mini figures. A popular fantasy niche became the lifeblood of the site, which

Metal powder supplier Tekna (FRA: 8VB) reported stronger financial results in the second quarter, as growing aerospace and defense demand helped its Materials business and more additive manufacturing (AM) customers moved into production. Founded in Canada in 1990 to commercialize technology developed at the Université de Sherbrooke, Tekna is owned through Norwegian-listed Tekna Holding ASA.

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) is growing, but making more parts also means using more metal powder. That raises a simple question: where will all that material come from? A new white paper from Continuum Powders and Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research) argues that recycling will have to become a much bigger part of the answer.