Tag: fabrication additive
1,200 solutions, zero patents: TOM’s 3D printing model for accessible assistive technology
Q&A with Gidi Grinstein, Founder & President of Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM)
There is a surprisingly large and rapidly growing ecosystem of nonprofits that use...
Eight years after the first 3D printed pointe shoe, act’ble is selling one
When 3D ADEPT Media first covered a 3D printed pointe shoe in 2018, it was a graduation project. Hadar Neeman, then a product design...
LEAP Space unveils 3D printed Serrano engine for the Bighorn launch vehicle
LEAP Space has recently revealed the first major piece of its Bighorn launch vehicle: the Serrano engine.
Faithful to its three operating principles, simplicity, responsiveness,...
Jean Paul Gaultier brings 5 haute couture designs to life using 3D printing
In a collaboration with 3D printing service bureau Sculpteo, fashion designer ROMI creates five haute couture looks for iconic haute couture fashion house Jean Paul...
Virtual surgical planning at scale: How SGH built a point-of-care AM program that works
The diversity of perspectives shared at EFHAM 2025 further reinforced something I find myself returning to often: that advancing modern medicine, and in this...
Fraunhofer IWM boosts fatigue strength of metal 3D printed parts by up to 40% and can now predict it
When a metal part is 3D printed, it comes out of the machine with weaknesses concentrated at its surface: roughness, tensile residual stress locked...
TE Connectivity relies on 3D printing for catheter manufacturing
TE Connectivity, a company we used to see operate in the field of connectors and sensors, uses 3D printing to manufacture the catheter shafts...
The right moment in AM: When machine manufacturers should launch and AM users should invest
Understanding the economics and timing of innovation
December 2025. I sat down for a yearly catch-up with Marina Haugg, Head of Marketing & PR at...
Why LEAP 71 thinks in code first and what that means for Aerospace & Defense
Four years ago, when I first met Lin Kayser, then CEO and founder of Hyperganic, he was betting on algorithms and AI to mass-produce...
“Print what’s suitable”: Inside Vår Energi’s additive manufacturing strategy
When we map additive manufacturing in the energy industry, the same handful of names tends to surface on our radar: Shell, Equinor, Kongsberg Ferrotech,...