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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has awarded Phase3D a role in a new program aimed at proving that metal additively manufactured parts can be qualified for spaceflight during production.

TAAG Global and the University of Bristol Business School have announced a joint intelligence platform called the Advanced Manufacturing Observatory. Its aim is to provide manufacturers and investors with business model frameworks, commercial strategies, and market intelligence. A first major event, the TAAG Leaders Forum, is scheduled for Q4 2026 at Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise…

The Elmet Group’s subsidiary Elmet Technologies is installing a DMP Flex 350 Triple metal 3D printer from 3D Systems to produce heat exchangers for hypersonic vehicles. According to 3D Systems, the company expects to qualify and certify the system to begin production in 2026. The deployment follows eight years of joint development between Elmet and…

Additive Manufacturing UK (AMUK) said during the recently concluded 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow that many of the performance-critical components in competition were additively manufactured. These parts were built into handlebars, swimming equipment, or adapted gear for para-sport athletes. One member company whose work illustrates this is 76 Additive, a 3D printing service provider founded…

Industrial 3D printing firm EOS has joined MAT-H2, a consortium of ten organizations working to advance metallic materials and technologies that can withstand hydrogen environments. The consortium addresses a specific technical barrier. Hydrogen degrades metals. It embrittles them, weakens welds, and accelerates fatigue cracking. These material limitations have slowed the adoption of hydrogen in power…

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have awarded $6 million to four project teams tasked with developing high-temperature refractory alloys for AM under the PADAM 2.0 program. The funding comes from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Foundational Technologies Directorate (AFRL/REMD). Refractory alloys can withstand the extreme temperatures required in…

How many engineering decisions have been delayed by three to five business days because a functional prototype was sitting in a service bureau’s queue? It’s something nobody tracks formally, but anyone who has outsourced industrial 3D printing knows the arithmetic. You finalize a design on Tuesday, and by the time you’re holding a functional part,…

America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead a $5.5 million program developing material allowables for a scandium-aluminum alloy across three classes of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printers. Funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech), the program is called Generation Of…

A team at BITS Pilani’s K.K. Birla Goa Campus has developed a 3D printable hydrogel from pharmaceutical-grade polymers and used it to print both skin tissue scaffolds and customized chewable drug tablets. Published in the Journal of Biological Engineering, the hydrogel combines three ingredients already used in drug manufacturing. Starch 1500 (a modified maize starch…

Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around…