3D Printing Materials
3D Printing News Briefs, May 20, 2026: Distribution, Fracture Mechanics, & More
We’re starting with business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. ATLIX announced a strategic distribution partnership with Excelencia Tech Group, and Timeplast raised $5 million in an oversubscribed campaign, powered…
Ceramic 3D Printing Applications on Display at Ceramics Expo USA
There’s a lot of crossover between ceramics and additive manufacturing (AM). Now, we just need to get the two industries to talk to each other more. It was nice to…
MORSAN and LEHVOSS Work on 3D Printing for Food and Beverage
For many years, LEHVOSS has made specialized 3D printing materials such as high-temperature polyamide and high-flow PEEK. Now it has teamed up with MORSAN to develop a 3D printing offering…
Wool 3D Printing Filament from New Zealand (Of Course)
WoolyFil uses wool-based colorants to color filament. Companies Wool Source, which makes pigments from wool, and filament firm KiwiFil partnered to develop pigments with around 92% to 98% bio-based content. In…
Tectonic 3D Takes Over Solvay 3D Printing Materials Portfolio
High-performance 3D printing materials company Tectonic 3D has bought the 3D printing materials portfolio of Solvay. The Syensqo portfolio, including PEEK AM Filament MS NT1, PEEK CF10 LS1, PPSU, NT1 HC,…
Harvard’s Jennifer Lewis Lab Is 3D Printing Artificial Muscles That Twist and Bend on Demand
Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new way to 3D print materials that can move on their own, bending, twisting,…
Fabric8Labs & University of Illinois Collaborate on 3D Printed Copper Cold Plates for Data Centers
Collaboration between emerging technology enterprises and research universities is one of the most consistently winning tactics for any nation building (or rebuilding) an industrial ecosystem. It’s an especially constructive approach…
Chromatic 3D Materials To Make Rocket Propellant
Chromatic 3D Materials makes cost-effective, tough elastomeric materials. Its process is being used to make industrial parts at scale. Now the film has turned into rocket propellant. The firm is…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 2, 2026: Soft Robots, Agricultural Waste, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start off with a multi-laser metal powder bed fusion 3D printer and post-processing news. We’ll end with research into soft robotics and…
Industrial Applications on Display at RAPID 2026: CERATIZIT & 3D Systems
Applications are where it’s at in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. At the recent RAPID+TCT in Boston, I met with a few companies to learn about some of their very…
This New UK Factory Will 3D Print Concrete at Scale
A new factory in North Lincolnshire will use robots to 3D print concrete parts for construction when it opens next June. The facility will focus on producing components like foundations…
6K Energy Secures 7-Year Agreement to Supply CRG Defense with Battery Materials
Last year, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a ban on certain components sourced from foreign suppliers, including Chinese firms, used in unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Meanwhile, the FY…
Cantor Fitzgerald Behind Velo3D Raise and Elmet IPO
Cantor Fitzgerald is showing up across two advanced manufacturing deals at the same time, acting as sole book-runner on a $50 million stock raise by Velo3D and also involved in…
3D Printed Metal Brackets from LightForce Orthodontics
Align has built a multi-billion-dollar business out of 3D printed thermoforming inserts that are used for silicone clear aligners that gradually align your teeth. That model has been copied by…
How AtomForm’s 12-Nozzle System Cuts Multi-Color FDM Transition Waste by Up to 90%
Pull up the print stats on multi-color FDM jobs. The number that stings isn’t time; it’s material efficiency. On six-color models, single-nozzle systems consume significant filament during transition flushing, expelling…
VBN Components Used for Cemented Carbide Slurry Pumps
Swedish firm VBN Components has been making high-performance, high-wear additive powders for a number of years now. Usually working with high-carbide-content materials, the company has brought the hardest 3D printing…
Colibrium Additive Gets $31 Million NAVAIR Contract
Colibrium Additive has been awarded a $31 million contract by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The contract is part of the Additive Manufacturing Capability initiative, focused on qualification and…
RAPID 2026: 6K Additive’s Domestic Metal Powders & Consolidation Plan
6K Additive (ASX: 6KA), a U.S. supplier and manufacturer of metal powders for additive manufacturing (AM), has been very busy lately. I caught up with CEO Frank Roberts and Chief…
Medical, Electronics, & Semiconductors: Detailed 3D Prints at RAPID 2026 with Boston Micro Fabrication & Lithoz
They say that good things come in small packages, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). A leader in micro-precision additive manufacturing, the company…
UltiMaker to be Exclusive North and South American Distributor for Tectonic 3D Filament
UItiMaker will be the exclusive distributor of Tectonic3D filament in North and South America. Tectonic makes high-performance materials for defense available on desktop 3D printers. It has been working with…
EOS Buys Metalpine, but What’s Behind the Move?
EOS has bought Austrian powder manufacturer Metalpine. EOS doesn’t buy companies often. And with increased competition from China & SLM, profligate spending doesn’t seem like it would be a good…
RAPID Roundup 2026: Simulation, IPQA, Materials, Depowdering, & More
This year’s RAPID+TCT trade show is in full swing in Boston this week, and we already have plenty of news to share with you, from a simulation and optimization platform…
HP Continues to Lower Barriers to Adoption with Compact MJF 1200 & Other RAPID + TCT Announcements
This week at RAPID+TCT in Boston, HP Additive Manufacturing Solutions is celebrating ten years in the AM market. The company launched its Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing technology in Barcelona…
How Decibel Landed the Brands Everyone Wants
The first thing Adam Hecht will tell you is that 3D printing already has the technology. The harder part has been finding applications people actually want. That’s the gap Decibel…
