News

Short, sourced 3D printing news: new machines and what they cost, research papers with their results, AI that makes 3D models, funding rounds and deals, and the listed companies. Each brief lists its sources.

Monday, 26 October 2026

Industry news
AML3D wins A$2.2 million ARCEMY X order from Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Marine Systems ordered an ARCEMY X wire-arc metal printer from AML3D for A$2.2 million ($1.54m), its first deal with the Australian firm.

Sunday, 25 October 2026

Industry news
Freemelt wins SEK 28 million tungsten order from European Spallation Source
Swedish metal printer maker Freemelt will produce and deliver 7,000 tungsten-based components for ESS's target wheel, a SEK 28 million ($2.8m) order running 14 months.

Saturday, 24 October 2026

New machines
RepRapMicron's PIKA UV head prints resin parts at 9 micron resolution
RepRapMicron's open-source PIKA UV head cures resin through a single-mode optical fiber, printing a 0.5 mm Benchy at a claimed 9 micron resolution.
New machines
HORKOS and Meltio launch NX70 DUO wire-DED machining center
HORKOS and Meltio built the NX70 DUO, a non-bed machining center that alternates between Meltio's wire-DED deposition and precision cutting in one setup, debuting at JIMTOF 2026.
AI and 3D
AMAXiMAL ships TopMod 3D v3, free topology tool with built-in Claude AI
AMAXiMAL's free TopMod 3D v3 runs on iPhone, iPad, browser and inside Rhino 8, pairing a 20-year-old topological mesh kernel with a Claude AI assistant that builds editable geometry from equations.

Friday, 23 October 2026

AI and 3D
Tripo AI's EdenLive renders 720p game video at 24+ fps on one RTX 5090
Tripo AI's new EdenLive renderer turns rough game-engine visuals into detailed 720p video at over 24 fps on a single RTX 5090, and the company has open-sourced the weights.
Stock news
Prodways printer revenue jumps 130% in Q3 2026 on ceramic demand
Prodways' Systems division revenue rose to €1.2 million in Q3 2026 from €500,000 a year earlier, driven by MOVINGLight ceramic printers, plus a roughly ten-unit order from an unnamed US aerospace customer.
New machines
Bambu Lab's H3C tool changer launches Nov 3 with nine tools on a drop-down rack
Bambu Lab's H3C tool changer launches Nov 3 with nine tools on a drop-down Vortex rack, two more slots than the H2C.
New machines
Admatec launches $92,500 desktop ceramic printer for labs
Admatec's Admaflex Discovery brings ceramic DLP printing to a lab bench at $92,500, with an upgrade path to a larger standalone machine.

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Industry news
China Yangtze Power awards 15.8 million yuan contract for in-situ AM turbine seal ring repair
China Yangtze Power has awarded Dongfang Electric Machinery a reported 15.8 million yuan (about $2.36 million) contract to develop in-situ additive repair for turbine seal rings up to 10.9 meters across at Three Gorges.
New machines
Peopoly's Giga 800 pellet printer ships at $15,000 with laser auto-leveling
Peopoly opened general sales of its Giga 800 pellet printer on October 22, 2026, at $15,000 EXW, adding laser-assisted bed leveling after Early Adopter complaints about setup time.
Industry news
Nikon AM to deploy two-metre Z-height metal printers for Tomahawk mid-bodies
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing has won a Department of War contract to deploy multiple two-metre Z-height NXG-E laser powder bed fusion systems for Tomahawk Land Attack Missile mid-body production.
AI and 3D
3Descu lets engineers get 3D printing quotes inside ChatGPT and Claude
Romanian manufacturer 3Descu launched an MCP server on October 18, 2026, letting ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code pull live production quotes from its pricing engine.

Wednesday, 21 October 2026

New machines
ValCUN's Remus printhead brings aluminum MMD to robotic arms and gantries
ValCUN's Remus printhead adds a plasma source ahead of the nozzle to preheat and deoxidize surfaces, letting the Belgian firm's aluminum MMD process scale past its 125mm Minerva build plate.
Industry news
Roboze raises $10 million from Rialto Ventures and Club degli Investitori for US push
Roboze closed a $10 million round led by existing backer Rialto Ventures and Club degli Investitori to fund US hiring and new materials like ceramic matrix composites.
New machines
Polymaker launches CymphoniK, a six-pellet color-mixing system for LFAM
Polymaker's CymphoniK mixes custom colors from six base pellets, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and neutral, with over 100 shades validated on PETG-1213 R50.
Industry news
Carbon passes 1 million DLS-printed bike saddles across 11 brands
Carbon says its Digital Light Synthesis process has now made over 1 million bike saddles for 11 brands, including the saddle Tadej Pogačar rode to his 2026 Tour de France win.
Industry news
3D Systems opens 50,000-sq-ft Littleton, Colorado facility for aerospace and defense
3D Systems has inaugurated a 50,000-sq-ft Industrial Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado, adding domestic additive capacity for aerospace, defense and semiconductor customers.

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Industry news
Ursa Major wins $137 million in Navy deals for additive solid rocket motors
Ursa Major picked up $137 million in two Navy contracts to develop and qualify tactical solid rocket motors for the CAAM and NMM missile programs, using its Lynx additive manufacturing approach.
New machines
UC Berkeley's OpenCAL volumetric printer forms parts in 90 seconds for $1,638
UC Berkeley released OpenCAL, an open-source volumetric printer with a Formlabs-made resin sold by Prusa for $119.99 a liter, forming parts in one to two minutes.
New machines
Prusa sells its own Prusament pellets in 3.5 to 14 kg packs
Prusa Research now sells the raw pellets behind Prusament filament in 3.5-14 kg packs, from $44.99, aimed at FGF printing and materials labs.
Research
MOSS robot's 3D-printed origami wheels cut cost of transport by 29%
MOSS, a Cornell/Imperial College amphibious robot, morphs 3D-printed origami wheels in 1.95 seconds, cutting cost of transport by up to 29% in wet terrain.
New machines
Metal 3D-printed propellers complete 60 laps at UIM F2 round in Peso da Régua
Two stainless steel DMLS propellers built by Steel Developments and Caleb Jelf ran free practice at the UIM F2 World Championship, logging over 60 laps and a lap time within five tenths of the fastest propeller that session.
New machines
Caracol's Heron 400 robotic printer bought by Greenland Arctic Development Corp
Greenland Arctic Development Corp has bought Caracol's Heron 400 robotic 3D printer, testing it in Chicago before shipping it north to build local spare-parts production.

Monday, 19 October 2026

New machines
UC Berkeley's OpenCAL volumetric printer forms parts in 90 seconds for $1,638
UC Berkeley's open-source OpenCAL printer cures a whole object at once in a spinning resin vial, with Formlabs making the resin and Prusa selling it for $119.99 a liter.
Research
IMDEA and UPM 3D print braided nitinol stents in a single step, hit 50% compression with 90% recovery
IMDEA Materials and UPM printed braided nitinol structures in one step that compress to 50% of diameter with over 90% elastic recovery, for transcatheter devices.

Sunday, 18 October 2026

Industry news
Stärke-AMG and Flinders University lead $2.7m onshore metal AM project
Stärke Advanced Manufacturing Group and Flinders University will spend $2.7 million over four years, running three Renishaw AM400 systems, to qualify metal 3D printing for Australian defense, maritime and medical parts.

Saturday, 17 October 2026

New machines
Solukon's SFM-AT850 depowders metal parts up to 1,000 kg
Solukon's new SFM-AT850 handles metal AM parts up to 1,000 kg in a 650 x 650 x 800 mm chamber, replacing two older models and shipping by Q3 2027.
AI and 3D
Meshy Edit lets users change one part of a 3D model for 20 credits
Meshy launched Meshy Edit, letting users select a region of a generated model and rewrite it by text in about a minute for 20 credits, instead of regenerating the whole mesh.
Stock news
Amaero prices Nasdaq IPO at $4.25 a share, nets $15.7 million, warns of 2027 cash gap
Amaero sold 4,705,883 shares at $4.25 to net $15.7 million on Nasdaq, but the prospectus says cash only lasts into Q2 2027 and a going-concern doubt remains.

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

Industry news
PTAB finds claims in four Stratasys patents unpatentable after $27.6 million Bambu verdict
The PTAB ruled claims in four Stratasys patents unpatentable, two weeks after a Texas jury ordered Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6 million for infringing them.
Industry news
ICON raises $200 million Series D to build Titan robots for other builders
ICON closed a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock to begin manufacturing Titan, its multi-story construction robot, at its Austin factory for sale to outside builders.
New machines
Freemelt gets prototype order for refractory metal defense study in Sweden
Freemelt will print several test geometries in refractory metal under a feasibility agreement with an unnamed Swedish defense firm, its second refractory metal win since September.
New machines
Formlabs launches $699 Form Studio 1, first UL GREENGUARD Gold resin printer
Formlabs' $699 Form Studio 1 is the first resin printer with UL GREENGUARD Gold certification, keeping VOC emissions under 220 µg/m³ when paired with its VOC Extractor and Alpha Resins.

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

Industry news
USS Pasadena 3D prints $1,000 watertight enclosure, replacing $200,000 submarine alteration
Sailors aboard USS Pasadena printed a watertight enclosure for under $1,000 on a Formlabs Form 4L, replacing a $200,000 Fiber Optic Penetrator alteration to run an ROV through a flooded torpedo tube.
Industry news
Think Metal raises Rs 27 crore to scale metal filament 3D printing platform
Chennai-based Think Metal closed a Rs 27 crore round led by IAN Alpha Fund to move its SistemT1 metal filament platform from enterprise pilots to commercial production.
New machines
Prusa Core One+ INDX calibration fails with non-Prusament filament, testing finds
Thomas Sanladerer's testing found the Core One+ INDX's mandatory per-print calibration, built around 0.013 g of purge waste per swap, breaks with Voxel PLA and other non-Prusament filament.
Industry news
Plane Support wins CASA approval for 3D printed Bell 214B helicopter duct
Plane Support has secured Australian CASA approval to 3D print cabin air-conditioning ducting for the Bell 214B after a nearly two-year project with operator McDermott Aviation.
New machines
Creality K3 opens for pre-order at $849 with 5-second nozzle swaps
Creality's K3 pre-orders open at $849, using a four-nozzle KliTek system that swaps nozzles in about 5 seconds and claims 80% shorter multi-color print times.
Industry news
America Makes funds $12.4 million MIAMI project to certify metal 3D-printed parts
America Makes and NCDMM awarded $12.4 million to teams led by Northrop Grumman and Fastech to validate metal AM parts as drop-in replacements for legacy alloys in DoD weapon systems.

Monday, 12 October 2026

Industry news
Jingye signs $700 million deal for 400-printer metal 3D printing factory in China
Jingye Future Smart Manufacturing will build a RMB 5 billion ($700 million) base in Fengshun County with 400 metal 3D printers, 20 powder lines and 100 MIM lines for smartphone hinges and camera modules.
New machines
Bambu Lab teases S1 3D scanner, due November 2026
Bambu Lab has officially teased its first 3D scanner, the S1, for a November 2026 launch, with no specs or price released yet.

Sunday, 11 October 2026

Industry news
California sues Polymaker over filament marketing to gun community
San Diego County sued Polymaker on October 5, 2026, arguing its marketing to the 3D-printed gun community turns PLA filament into a regulated "firearm precursor part."

Saturday, 10 October 2026

AI and 3D
Neural4D's Multicolor tool auto-detects 4-color schemes from model textures
Neural4D's new Multicolor tool auto-detects color regions from a model's PBR texture and builds a 4-color starting scheme, cutting manual setup before slicing.

Friday, 9 October 2026

Research
Six-patient study: 3D printed lung models guide embolization of all 8 arteriovenous malformations
A UPMC-led team printed patient-specific models for 6 PAVM patients across two HHT centers, and embolization reached technical success in all 8 treated lesions.
Industry news
Sneakprint sells foot-fitted flip-flop STL files for €64.99
Munich's Sneakprint launched ShoeFactory today, selling an STL file of a flip-flop scanned to an individual's feet for €64.99, with printing left entirely to the buyer.
Research
Simulation study proposes microwave volumetric printing for ceramic and metal powders, needs 100 kW input
A finite element study from Brendan Mackey, Levi Smith and Bosco Yu models three microwave device designs that could extend volumetric additive manufacturing past photopolymer resins to ceramic, metal and composite powders.
AI and 3D
Hi3D 3.0 claims 82.1% text recovery versus 21.7% for rivals, in its own benchmark
Twinkle3D, the geometry model behind Hi3D 3.0, generates watertight meshes at 2048^3 resolution and reports 82.1% recall of inscribed characters at 98.2% precision, against 21.7% recall for the best of four commercial rivals, in a benchmark the paper runs itself.
Industry news
NMSU students design 5-size seal to replace 200 part numbers for Holloman Air Force Base
New Mexico State University's Aggie Innovation Shop consolidated over 200 legacy OMNI seal part numbers into a five-size concept for the Air Force's 49th Wing, and the two sides are now expanding into a standing engineering pipeline.

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Research
Technion's MTRL 3D prints 178 earth bricks for olive tree pavilion
MTRL at Technion and the Weizmann Tree Lab built BUSTAN, a pavilion of 178 robotically printed earthen bricks around a living olive tree, for Design Museum Holon.
Industry news
Print&Live and iSCALE 3D's airless UGV wheels log 361 km in combat trials at €680 a set
Ukrainian makers Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D move 3D printed airless UGV wheels into small-batch combat production after a TARGAN 3K unit ran 361 km through winter missions, moving 1,825 kg of cargo.
Industry news
Graphy signs $1.3 million dental resin deal with MegaGen
Seoul-based Graphy signed a KRW 2 billion ($1.3m) initial supply agreement with MegaGen Implant to deliver its ceramic-filled Tera Harz E-Namel resin plus printers and curing equipment.
New machines
Bambu Lab patent US20260264331A1 targets heatbed peeling with monolithic design
Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology, Bambu Lab's parent company, published a U.S. patent application on September 10, 2026 for a heatbed meant to cut peeling on large prints.

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Industry news
BlueSky Polymers, Insight Polymers and ALM bring xPEI to SLS printing, no mechanical numbers published yet
BlueSky Polymers, Insight Polymers and ALM announced xPEI, a reactive polyetherimide powder for SLS based on Sabic's Ultem backbone, now in multi-kg production, but released no tensile, heat-deflection or price figures.
New machines
UniFormation S10 prints, washes and dries resin parts for $999 on Kickstarter
UniFormation's S10 automates printing, washing and drying behind one door, launching on Kickstarter in late October 2026 at a $999 pledge price, MSRP $1,299.
Industry news
String Cubed opens Regulation CF raise with $500 minimum for vapor-cooled 3D printing
String Cubed, which says it holds the only granted US patent in matter-to-matter computing, opened a Regulation CF raise at a $500 minimum to scale a vapor-cooled filament process it claims has already produced eight functional materials.
Industry news
MX3D becomes first WAAM facility to hold DNV's AMC3 certification
Amsterdam's MX3D is the first wire arc additive manufacturing facility worldwide certified at DNV's strictest Additive Manufacturing Criticality level, AMC3, under standard DNV-ST-B203.
Industry news
Mimir closes acquisition of Sandvik's Osprey metal powder business
Mimir closed its purchase of Sandvik's Osprey metal powder unit on October 1, spinning off a business with over 2,000 powder grades and plants in Neath, Wales and Sandviken, Sweden into an independent company.
Industry news
IOT and VisionLab sell first volumetric 3D printed progressive lenses, cutting energy use 90%
Spain's IOT and retailer VisionLab launched the first commercial progressive lenses made with volumetric 3D printing on October 6, 2026, claiming 90% lower energy use and 76% less waste than ground lenses.
Research
CECIMO's AM Europe maps additive manufacturing research across 83 organizations
AM Europe, run by CECIMO, surveyed 83 research organizations in 18 countries and found 66 working on metal AM and advanced materials, but flagged uneven access for smaller firms.

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

AI and 3D
Meshy ranks No. 31 on a16z's first revenue-based top 50 consumer AI apps list
Meshy placed No. 31 in a16z's new revenue-ranked Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report, the only AI 3D company on a list topped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Canva.
Industry news
Amsight leads 12-month ESA project to digitize qualification of 3D-printed space parts
Amsight will lead DIQAM, a 12-month ESA FIRST! project with ArianeGroup, APWORKS, InSpacePropulsion and Fraunhofer IAPT, building a digital file to cut redundant testing on additively manufactured space hardware.

Monday, 5 October 2026

AI and 3D
Tripo P2.0 generates quad meshes natively, up to 25,000 faces
Tripo AI's P2.0 generates quad-dominant 3D meshes directly, up to 25,000 faces, which the company says is the first AI 3D model to skip retopology entirely.
Industry news
MB Therapeutics becomes first authorized maker of 3D-printed drug cartridges in France
France's ANSM has granted MB Therapeutics pharmaceutical establishment authorization to manufacture semi-solid cartridges for 3D-printed oral medicines, the first such status issued anywhere.

Sunday, 4 October 2026

Independent tests
CNC Kitchen measures Z anti-aliasing cutting FDM surface roughness from 80 to 25 micrometres
CNC Kitchen tested micro-non-planar "Z anti-aliasing" slicing on a Voron 2.4, measuring Ra drop from ~80 µm to ~25 µm on a 5° wedge with a Mitutoyo Surftest SJ-220.
Industry news
Bambu Lab runs 24-brief assistive device contest with 618 winners on MakerWorld
Bambu Lab and seven accessibility nonprofits launched a MakerWorld design contest covering 24 real assistive-device briefs, closing November 15 with 618 winners and 24 A1 Combo printers as grand prizes.

Saturday, 3 October 2026

Industry news
Titomic wins $5 million USAF cold spray contract as VulcanForms teams with Specter Aerospace on hypersonics
Titomic USA secures a $5 million U.S. Air Force contract to install a TKF 1000 cold spray system at Tinker Air Force Base, while VulcanForms partners with Specter Aerospace to scale airbreathing hypersonic weapons manufacturing.
New machines
Fabbrix's Elemento TC5 packs five toolheads into a 1,100mm build volume
Fabbrix's Elemento TC5 ships now with five independent toolheads, a 1,100 x 600 x 640mm build volume, and 350°C hotends, priced on quote only.

Friday, 2 October 2026

Independent tests
My Tech Fun tests €299 UGEE FunBox, a 120mm kid printer with no heated bed
My Tech Fun ran the UGEE FunBox, a €299 kids' printer with a 120x120x120mm build volume and an unheated "room temperature" platform, through its app workflow and spool swaps.
Industry news
Revo Foods raises €2 million, targets Q3 2027 profitability on six printers
Revo Foods has secured €1 million of a €2 million round to add printers that each cost about €25,000 and pay back in under two months.
New machines
ESA's ISS metal printer returns first space-made thrusters, fifth sample so far
ESA's metal 3D printer on the ISS has produced two satellite thrusters designed by DLR, part of a fifth printed sample retrieved from the Columbus module in July.
New machines
California law requires firearm-blocking tech in new 3D printers once ASTM standard exists
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring 3D printer makers to add firearm-blocking technology, but the mandate only triggers once ASTM International publishes a standard, and the DOJ's quarterly check expires July 1, 2029.
New machines
Bambu Lab opens first authorized store in Philippines at SM Megamall
Uni3DLab, Bambu Lab's authorized Philippine distributor, opened the brand's first authorized retail store at SM Megamall's Cyberzone, with printers on live demo.
Industry news
6K Additive secures $27.4 million EXIM loan for Pennsylvania expansion
6K Additive signed a $27.4 million secured loan with the US Export-Import Bank to fund four new buildings and equipment at its Burgettstown, Pennsylvania powder plant.
Research
3D-printed cement supercapacitor hits 23 MPa while storing charge
Harbin Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers 3D-printed a cement supercapacitor with interlocking electrodes, reaching 162.14 mF/cm² and surviving 23 MPa compression.

Thursday, 1 October 2026

Industry news
Mencast Marine's WAAM propeller gets dual class certification from Lloyd's and ABS
Singapore's Mencast Marine wins Lloyd's Register and ABS certification for what it calls the first fully additively manufactured propeller, cutting production time in half.
New machines
Creality prices Sermoon P1S handheld scanner at $2,299
Creality's new handheld scanner claims 0.02mm accuracy and runs standalone on a 3.36GHz 8-core Qualcomm chip, with four scan modes and a 807g body.

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

New machines
Prusa's HT Hotend hits 400°C for $199.99, CORE One L+ ships pre-built at $2,169
Prusa's new HT Hotend Upgrade reaches 400°C and swaps tool-free in under a minute; the pre-assembled CORE One L+ bundles it with active chamber heating and filtration for $2,169.
AI and 3D
Meshy hits $100 million ARR, up 100x in under two years, ships mobile apps
Meshy says its annual recurring revenue passed $100 million in September 2026, up from $1 million less than two years earlier, and released iOS and Android apps built on Meshy 7.
New machines
Faiborida 3D launches SLM M500 with four 500W lasers and 500mm cube build box
Faiborida 3D's new SLM M500 packs four 500W IPG fiber lasers into a 500x500x500mm build chamber, aiming at higher throughput per job than single- or dual-laser mid-frame metal printers.
Industry news
6K Additive signs $10.8M Nickel 718 powder deal with ADDMAN, adds revert buy-back
6K Additive and ADDMAN signed a 30-month Nickel 718 powder supply contract worth up to $10.8m, with $8.1m guaranteed and a revert buy-back program built in.

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

New machines
SnowX opens Kickstarter pre-launch page for SnowPod metal printer, no price yet
SnowX, based in Suzhou, has posted a Kickstarter pre-launch page for the SnowPod, an 80 x 80 x 100 mm LPBF metal printer with a 40 μm laser spot, ahead of a Q4 2026 campaign.
Industry news
Protolabs robotics revenue more than doubled in H1 2026
Protolabs says revenue from robotics customers grew more than 100 percent in H1 2026 versus H1 2025, citing prototyping and low-volume production demand from robot makers.
Stock news
Materialise Q2 revenue rises 8.1% to EUR 70.1 million, raises profit outlook
Materialise posted Q2 2026 revenue of EUR 70.1 million, up 8.1%, and raised its full-year Adjusted EBIT guidance to EUR 12-14 million as medical devices and aerospace/defense offset a 2.7% software decline.
Industry news
Cranfield 3D-prints natural rubber gloves, skips the dipping line entirely
Cranfield University's 3D-PEP machine sprays natural rubber latex onto a mould and vulcanises it in place, replacing the multi-bath dipping lines glove factories run today.
Industry news
EPO Board of Appeal upholds Carbon's dual-cure patent EP 3158400
A European Patent Office Board of Appeal dismissed a rival's challenge to Carbon's EP 3158400 on September 24, 2026, keeping claim 1 intact and reinstating dependent claims stripped in 2025.

Monday, 28 September 2026

Research
Virginia Tech prints liquid metal silicone with 40x thermal conductivity
Virginia Tech's Soft Materials and Structures Lab measured 9.9 W/mK thermal conductivity along printed gallium-indium droplets in silicone, about 40 times unfilled PDMS.
Industry news
Nike puts 3D printed vortex generators on a one-of-one suit for Keely Hodgkinson
Nike unveiled a one-of-one speed suit on September 18, 2026 with 3D printed, color-shifting delta vortex generators tuned to Keely Hodgkinson's body to cut 800m drag.
Research
MIT and Johns Hopkins build 3D printed device to collect living cells from tissue
MIT and Johns Hopkins researchers built a handheld 3D printed microfluidic device that sheared living cells off human fallopian-tube tissue, then grew them into organoids.
New machines
Addireen's XH-M350G-2HR prints 400 copper heat sinks in one 140-hour build
Addireen's third-generation green-laser copper printer filled a 350mm plate with about 400 optical transceiver heat sinks in roughly 140 hours, claiming Cpk above 1.33.

Sunday, 27 September 2026

Research
WSU team prints GRCop-42 copper alloy at 500 watts using AI-guided settings
Washington State University used a machine learning model trained on 37 failed prints to find six working parameter sets for GRCop-42, printing it for the first time at 500 watts of laser power.
New machines
Flashforge CJ270 full-color material jetting printer ships October 15 at $3,999
Flashforge's CJ270 puts CMYK, white and clear material jetting on a desktop at $3,999, with the first 100 units shipping by air on October 15, 2026.
Industry news
Addireen opens Ganzhou plant with capacity for 50 copper AM systems a month
Addireen has opened a facility in Ganzhou, China, built to assemble up to 50 green-laser metal AM systems a month, moving its copper printer line from prototype to series production.

Friday, 25 September 2026

Industry news
Snapmaker opens Space beta with 2,500 multicolor models for the U1
Snapmaker launched the open beta of Space on September 21 with over 2,500 multicolor and multimaterial models carrying ready-made print profiles for its U1 toolchanger printer.
Industry news
Radian Forge closes $2.5 million Series Seed round for naval WAAM production
Virginia's Radian Forge raised a $2.5 million Series Seed Preferred round led by Veteran Ventures Capital to scale wire arc additive manufacturing for naval and maritime parts.
Industry news
IMTS 2026 draws 90,000 attendees, AM booths sit next to metal removal for the first time
IMTS 2026 in Chicago drew over 90,000 attendees across 1.17 million square feet; EOS printed 180 drone parts in just over 12 hours for a DoW challenge.
AI and 3D
Constructor AI opens free browser test for text-to-STL design
Constructor AI released a free public browser test that turns typed descriptions into STL files and G-code, letting users skip a parametric CAD interface entirely.
Industry news
Bambu Lab's Shenzhen factory clears green space for construction access
A Guangming District notice dated September 18 shows Bambu Lab subsidiary Shenzhen Zhuhe Technology applying to build a temporary construction entrance for its planned 3-million-unit-per-year factory.

Thursday, 24 September 2026

New machines
Phrozen prices Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX at $1,600 for large-format resin
Phrozen's new Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX pairs a 14.7 L build volume with a 16K mono LCD, listing at $1,600, with a $1,300 early-bird price to match rivals like Uniformation's GK3 Ultra.
Research
LLNL camera system measures DIW strand diameter to within a few micrometers, while printing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory trained a segmentation model on 13,800 annotated images and matched human filament measurements across 55 test parts, catching a tilted build platform that averaging would have hidden.
Research
LLNL bioreactor converts methane to succinate 10 times faster than liquid systems
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory built a 3D-printed lattice bioreactor that turns waste methane into succinate at more than 10 times the rate of liquid-state systems, using less power.
Independent tests
My Tech Fun pulls IPCON PPA filaments to failure, one hits 407.6 kg
My Tech Fun tore printed samples of IPCON's glass-fiber and carbon-fiber PPA filaments on a scale rig, logging four separate breaks at 164.2 kg, 197.3 kg, 245.8 kg and 407.6 kg without labeling which pull belonged to which grade on screen.

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

New machines
Stratasys launches F870 large-format FDM printer at $149,000
Stratasys unveiled the F870 at IMTS 2026, a 1000 x 610 x 610 mm heated-chamber FDM platform starting at $149,000, already running at Rivian and Toyota plants.
Industry news
Amaero files for $52.6 million Nasdaq IPO under ticker AMRO
Amaero Inc filed with the SEC for a Nasdaq listing under ticker AMRO, offering 7,456,500 shares at an assumed $7.06 each, a $52.6 million gross raise.
AI and 3D
3Dnatives Lab tests Meshy 7.1, finds 97% pass claim built on 15 models
3Dnatives ran nine photos through Meshy 7.1's image-to-3D tool and checked the exported 3MF files, from a clean 385,000-triangle mascot to a watch that split into 35 floating bodies.

Tuesday, 22 September 2026

New machines
XYZO launches hybrid platform combining DLP, FDM, pellet extrusion and CNC micro-milling
UK startup XYZO has launched a modular platform that combines DLP, FDM, pellet extrusion, drop-on-demand deposition and CNC micro-milling with inspection and post-processing in one connected system.
Industry news
ORNL prints a 6-foot, nearly 2-ton steel stamp die for Boeing in eight weeks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory printed a two-alloy Stamp Form Die for Boeing composite work using wire-arc deposition, hitting shape within a few millimeters after 32 simulation iterations.
AI and 3D
GPT-6 Astra hits 95.9% on BenchCAD, reconstructing CAD from photos
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 95.9% mean voxel IoU on BenchCAD, reconstructing editable CAD code from photos, up from 83.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and ahead of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1.
New machines
Creality prices SPARKX i8 four-color printer at $309 on Indiegogo
Creality's SPARKX i8 packs four filament channels into one toolhead and starts at $309 on Indiegogo, claiming zero external purge waste and sub-second color switching.
Industry news
Bambu Lab loses $27.6M patent verdict to Stratasys, launches laser engraver days later
A Texas jury ordered Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6 million for willful infringement of four FDM patents on September 17, 2026. Five days later Bambu launched the R1, a $2,499 CO2 laser engraver.