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Berlin-based BigRep GmbH, a manufacturer of large-format industrial 3D printers, is returning to private ownership roughly two years after becoming a publicly traded company. Shareholders have approved a simplified corporate…BigRep Goes Private and Launches ALTRA 670 Large-Format 3D Printer

US manufacturing reshoring announcements remain strong, private equity is consolidating production capacity, and digital manufacturing platforms are expanding. But the latest figures point to a more complicated opportunity for additive…Reshoring is creating options. Who gets paid for them?

Researchers at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Tamil Nadu, India, found that changing the cell shape of a resin 3D printed auxetic lattice raised its peak load roughly fourfold…Switching Lattice Shape Quadruples Load Capacity of 3D Printed Resin Auxetic Structures

Siemens and NVIDIA announced on October 21, 2026, a collaboration that lets electronics makers prepare optical inspection of circuit boards in a virtual 3D environment, before the first physical board…Siemens and NVIDIA Want to Train Inspection Before the First Build. Could 3D Printing Benefit?

Shenzhen-based 3D printer maker Creality has made its K3, the latest flagship 3D printer in its K Series lineup, available for pre-order at $849 in the United States.  Recognized as…Making Multi-Color 3D Printing Workflow More Practical With Creality’s K3

Product development and manufacturing technology company Carbon has produced more than one million cycling saddles on its additive manufacturing platform. The company now works with 11 saddle brands worldwide and…One Million Saddles: Carbon’s 3D Printed Lattices Hit Mass Production

Jiangsu Global Laser Box Digital Technology (江苏铬莱铂数字科技有限公司) will launch a global crowdfunding campaign for its third-generation compact metal 3D printer, the GLB-M1, at the end of November. The company says…Metal 3D printing for under $5,000? Global Laser Box says hundreds have already shipped

A University of Nottingham-led project will bring 3D design and printing to children and young people taught in hospital education across England, and will study whether the activity can support…From Hospital Bed to 3D Printer: New Project Brings Design Skills to Young Patients

A De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) researcher will study whether 3D printing can produce artificial muscles for a new generation of soft robots. Dr Meisam Abdi is one of only…Robots That Move, Sense and Harvest Energy: DMU Turns to 3D Printed Muscles

Luxembourg-based Artec 3D has released Artec Twins, a software platform for processing, rendering, and analyzing 3D scans of large environments, including point clouds containing billions of points. The launch extends…Artec 3D Releases Artec Twins to Render 3D Scans with Billions of Points in Real Time