By Michele Pavan, Research Engineering Manager, Materialise A KU Leuven research team has demonstrated something the metal AM industry has been pursuing for years: the ability to locally influence microstructure within a single printed part during the build itself, without…
Liqcreate’s Bio-Med Flex Now Enables Flexible and Sterilizable 3D Printed Parts
Netherlands-based independent 3D printing resin manufacturer Liqcreate has launched Bio-Med Flex, a clear flexible photopolymer resin designed for sterilizable, biocompatible medical and biomedical applications. This matters because being able to meet this set of requirements in clinical prototyping labs has…
New SUNLU AMS Lite Heater Keeps Filament Dry for Better Print Quality
A twelve-hour overnight print can turn out fine, or it can come back stringy and inconsistent with no change to the slicer settings that would explain why. The usual cause is moisture. A spool left in an open holder for…
3D Printing Industry Preparing Website Upgrade Following Reader Feedback
3D Printing Industry is preparing a significant upgrade to its website, with a redesigned platform set to launch in the coming weeks. The update follows our earlier reader survey, which gathered feedback on how audiences use the site and where…
NIST tackles ceramic 3D printing’s measurement gap
Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a reference material, a carefully engineered zirconia slurry, to help ceramic 3D printing produce consistent, reliable parts. The problem it targets is deceptively basic: the wet ceramic…
EU project grows living bone, fat and muscle with a new bioprinting method
An EU-funded research team has developed a 3D bioprinting technique that grows living bone, fat and muscle tissue in the lab, with uses stretching from leukaemia research to cultivated meat. The work comes out of PRISM-LT, a five-year project running…
ugee launches Funbox, a new desktop 3D printer built for children
ugee, the Shenzhen-based digital creativity brand, has globally launched Funbox, its first desktop 3D printer aimed at children and beginners, priced at $269 and positioned as a home-grade, out-of-the-box machine for families. The printer targets the 4-to-12 age group and…
Purdue’s 3D Printed Groundwater Sensor brings low cost scientific instruments to USGS
Purdue University researchers have built a 3D printed, open-source alternative to the specialized groundwater-flow sensors that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) owns in only small numbers, and they can assemble each unit for a few hundred dollars, a fraction of…
CONTEXT: Industrial Growth and Entry-Level Boom Reshape AM Market
Market intelligence firm CONTEXT has published its Q1 2026 analysis of global 3D printer shipments, and the numbers point to an industry growing fast but unevenly. Total hardware system revenues rose 32% Y/Y, industrial shipments climbed 18% across all major…
Trinity prints Ireland’s first cement-free geopolymer
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin‘s School of Engineering have 3D printed what they say is Ireland’s first cement-free geopolymer, a red-brown construction material made largely from industrial waste that contains no Portland cement and, by their preliminary estimate, carries around…
Kare 3D Launches Kare S1 on Kickstarter: Technical Specifications
Istanbul-based startup Kare 3D has opened a Kickstarter campaign for the Kare S1, a desktop 3D printer the company says can process both metal and plastic filaments. The campaign is seeking £52,275 and has raised £16,082 from six backers so…
Gravity Pull Systems Updates PAAM Software
Additive manufacturing (AM) software provider Gravity Pull Systems has released an updated version of its Personal AM Assistant (PAAM) software, built to automate toolpath optimization for metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems. According to the company, the tool is…
Low-cost 3D printed sensors could widen access to diagnostics
A team at the University of Brighton is building a new class of inexpensive, environmentally conscious medical sensors that aim to make testing cheaper and more widely available. Over the past three years, researchers under Professor Bhavik Patel have reconsidered…
Six Hands, Six Purposes: Yale’s 3D Printed Prosthetic Set
A graduate student at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science has 3D printed a set of six custom hand prosthetics for a woman born with only one hand, at a cost of a few hundred dollars, a fraction of…
