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3D Printing Financials: Nikon’s Digital Manufacturing Revenue Grows 77% as Sam O’Leary Moves to Supervisory Board
Nikon (TYO: 7731) just announced its earnings for Q2 (fiscal year ending March ’27), and we learned that the digital manufacturing business grew revenue by 77 percent to ¥17.4 billion…
Bambu Lab Releases $2,499 Full-Color, Multi-Toolhead H3C 3D Printer
Bambu Lab has released its latest 3D printer, the $2,499 H3C, an awaited Bambu answer to Prusa INDX and Snapmaker. The printer comes with a nine toolhead Swaptek exchanger, which…
From Ukraine’s War Effort to U.S. Restrictions: The Debate Over Desktop 3D Printing
When I lifted the replica drone interceptor nosecone from the build plate of my Prusa Core One L, I noticed how precise and aerodynamic the part was. I admired the…
Do You Know How Your Customer Makes Money with AM?
This article is Part III of a five-part series by AMPOWER, Gold Sponsor of Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2027. Application understanding begins where the datasheet ends. Western AM suppliers claim to know…
3DPOD 320: HeyGears CEO, Peiyan Gui
Peiyan Gui co-founded HeyGears after studying in the United States. The Chinese firm first made desktop Vat Polymerization systems before pivoting to dental systems. Then, yet another surprising pivot led…
3D Printing Financials: Tekna’s Revenue Up 61 Percent YOY
As my recent post about tungsten demonstrates, critical materials are like an avatar for the current dynamics shaping the global economy. This presents an opaque mix of challenges and opportunities…
Added Scientific Launches JetForge Core for Inkjet 3D Printing
Added Scientific, a spinout from the University of Nottingham, was founded by Ricky Wildman, Phill Dickens, Christopher Tuck, and Richard Hague to deliver on R&D projects in 3D printing. Over…
Arkema & Carbon’s Longtime AM Partnership Highlighted by Vivobarefoot Collab
The rising demand for and technical maturity of metal additive manufacturing (AM) has been so striking that it’s easy to forget that the catalysts for polymer AM are still just…
Printing Money Episode 43: Additive Manufacturing Deal Analysis with Arno Held
Welcome to Printing Money Episode 43. Arno Held returns to join Danny Piper (Principal, NewCap Partners) for this episode. Arno is freshly independent from AM Ventures, as Principal at Held…
A Novel AM Process: DIAL 3D Printing
A new 3D printing technology, direct ink additive lithography, or DIAL, spreads paste-like inks in layers and then selectively hardens them using light. The inks can also act as a…
Bringing LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Animation Characters to Life with Full-Color 3D Printing
It is a labor of intense love and hard work to make a stop-motion animation film. They are created frame by frame, with the objects and characters in the frame…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 7, 2026: Repair, Acquisition, 3D Models, AI, & More
We’re starting off this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs with military news, then on to business and compliance. We’ll end with a 3D model partnership. Read on for all the…
Callaway Golf to Set Up $15 Million 3D Printing Location in Texas
Callaway Golf is set to invest $15 million in a Fort Worth, Texas 3D printing factory. For many years, golf companies have flirted with 3D printing. Callaway made a putter…
Additive Manufacturing Simulation, Monitoring, Inspection, & More at Formnext 2026
Formnext 2026 is getting closer, and we’re already seeing lots of 3D printing industry news ahead of the trade show in Frankfurt. In this pre-event roundup, we’ll tell you about…
3D Printed Prosthetics Have Come a Long Way. HP and DyeMansion Look at What’s Next
3D printing has made it easier to produce prosthetics and orthotics tailored to individual patients. But making that work on a larger scale comes with its own challenges. For companies…
Mosquito Dreams Part 4: Airbus Finally Makes Sense
An iconic cafe chair helped usher in an era of composite manufacturing and bent wood. The resulting Mosquito bomber, fighter, multirole everything, was an enormous success. This led to waffling…
3D Printing Financials: 3D Systems Still Posting Losses, But Sees 2027 Tailwinds
3D Systems announced in August that Dr. Jeff Graves, the company’s CEO since early 2020, is planning to retire, and Joris Peels wrote an excellent post at the time of…
The AM Production Gap Is Real. So Is the Progress
Additive manufacturing (AM) has become very good at proving what is possible. Companies can print complex metal parts, reduce weight, combine multiple components into one, and produce designs that are…
What’s Left When a 3D Printing Company Shuts Down?
Several 3D printing companies have closed, sold their assets or restructured in 2026. Some spent years developing new printing technologies and raised millions of dollars along the way. Others built…
The “Apple Effect”: Are 3D Printers Becoming Lifestyle Products?
For most of its history, desktop 3D printing has been a technology business. Companies competed on speed, accuracy, build volume, temperature, materials and reliability. Buyers compared specifications because the machines…
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