De-risking AM adoption: How Technology Readiness Levels guide industrial decisions
“We are excited to announce the launch of X material, ready to be used for highly regulated industries.” I can’t count the number of...
Photocentric spins out CosmicMaker, a machine that operates better in space than on earth
Following the successful demonstration of its enclosed-chamber 3D printer across parabolic flights in April 2026, 3D printer manufacturer Photocentric now makes the new 3D...
Rocket Lab’s 1,000th Rutherford Engine: When additive manufacturing becomes a competitive moat
Space company Rocket Lab has just announced a milestone: the 1,000th Rutherford engine has rolled off its production line. In the world of space...
Recording | Additive Talks, season 6, episode 1
What happens when two of the most demanding users of additive manufacturing in aerospace, one building commercial aircraft, the other unmanned defense systems, compare...
RAPID+TCT 2026: A show floor that had more going on than its three showcase labels suggest
All I knew about Boston before coming here was that the city had earned a reputation built on law and legal institutions; knowledge largely...
One roadmap, three business units: How to align AM strategy across fundamentally different worlds?
Building an additive manufacturing strategy is hard enough in a single business unit. The technology is maturing rapidly, the qualification landscape keeps shifting, and...
The “Factory of the Future” is everywhere. But what does it actually mean?
The phrase has become ambient noise in manufacturing. Every major industrial player, every technology vendor, every trade show keynote has its own version of...
WATCH | AMUG 2026: A new city, the same community spirit, and the partnerships worth watching
After five consecutive years in Chicago, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group packed up and headed west. AMUG 2026 took place in Reno, Nevada, a...
Some ideas are so obvious they seem impossible. Michael Molitch-Hou’s book is both.
There are projects you come across and immediately think: this needed to exist. Michael Molitch-Hou's Impossible Works: The Book of 3D Printed Art is...
A 200 kN 3D printed aerospike rocket engine powers Aspire’s fully reusable Oryx spacecraft
When we reported last June on Aspire Space's ambition to develop a fully reusable launch vehicle powered by computationally engineered, 3D-printed engines, it was...