The US added 5,000 manufacturing jobs in July, although in its article on the subject, Wall Street Journal notes that there are still (slightly) fewer manufacturing workers in the US than there were a year ago. On the other hand, it is perhaps a positive sign that the pool of applicants for manufacturing jobs continues […]
3D printing has made its way onto one of fashion’s biggest stages. Jean Paul Gaultier used additive manufacturing (AM) to help create several pieces for its Fall/Winter 2026–2027 Haute Couture collection, which debuted in Paris in July. The collection marked creative director Duran Lantink’s first haute couture collection for the French fashion house, and he
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a new Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence has been launched in Michigan. Surgeons in Israel created a 3D printed sternum implant to help a cancer patient. Finally, a 3D printed wall made of ceramic cubes is helping to beat the heat in urban areas. Automation Alley & Oakland
The industrial underpinnings of US military readiness have been hampered by an overcommitment to weapons systems whose long-term value is increasingly questionable. This isn’t so much a generational problem as a multigenerational one, since US defense planners have already been trying to address the relevant issues for nearly a generation, and it will likely take
Formlabs is doing a management shuffle, pointing the firm even more surely towards an IPO or other exit event. For one, I just noticed that the company has a Head of Investor Relations which is a totally public company thing to do, and something that startups and other firms don’t have. Now the company is
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The geography of the manufacturing sites that produce 3D printers is a bit of a blindspot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Industry stakeholders in the West have been forced to pay more attention to this over the last few years because the leading patron of Western AM, the US military, has started to signal
The geography of the manufacturing sites that produce 3D printers is a bit of a blindspot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Industry stakeholders in the West have been forced to pay more attention to this over the last few years because the leading patron of Western AM, the US military, has started to signal
Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) reported second-quarter results showing strong demand in aerospace and defense, record consumables sales, and further progress in its shift toward manufacturing. Overall sales were pretty much unchanged from a year ago, as growth in materials and services helped offset weaker 3D printer sales. Stratasys maintained its 2026 revenue and earnings outlook but
We’re starting off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with a little FDA news, and then a new dental material for the Axtra3D Lumia X1. We’ll end with the winners of an America Makes project call, and its newly elected Executive Committee members. Read on for all the details! Elevation Spine Gets FDA 510(k) Clearance for
We are at one of the most important moments in the powder bed fusion market’s entire history. EOS is on the retreat, retrenching itself in higher-volume industrial systems while dropping its entry-level system, the P110. The EOS M4 ONYX’s success in metal and large space and defense orders has increasingly made polymer a side quest
