August did not feel like a growth story. It read more like a filter being applied in real time: public markets rewarding business models that can survive regulation and reimbursement; courts and private equity disassembling yesterday’s roll-ups; defense agencies turning…
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3D Printing Industry Year in Review: July 2025
July did not only feature more defence stories than usual, this month’s headlines showed additive manufacturing being selected for the jobs that matter in wartime production: rapid iteration, local substitution, and tolerable failure modes. The month’s most jarring signal was…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: June 2025
June did not deliver a single headline-grabbing machine launch or miracle material. It delivered something more consequential: the slow, institutional work that turns a capability into infrastructure. Policy documents named additive explicitly, standards bodies backed file formats, and qualification timelines…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review April 2025
April 2025 marked a turning point for additive manufacturing. The month brought the symbolic end of the SPAC-era startups, with Nano Dimension consolidating Desktop Metal and Markforged, signaling the close of the second generation of public AM ventures. At the…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review February 2025
The 3D Printing Industry Year in Review continues with the biggest stories from February. After January’s volatility, the month brought sharper definition to where demand held, where capital hesitated, and where governance began to matter as much as technology. Defense…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review January 2025
Our annual review of the 3D Printing Industry in 2025 begins today. January stands out not because of any single announcement, but because of how many competing signals appeared at once. Investment behavior shifted, new technologies surfaced, regulatory tensions increased,…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review (Part Two)
Read part one of the 3D printing industry year in review here. If the first half of 2025 clarified direction, the second half enforced constraints. Between July and December, additive manufacturing was shaped both by technological ambition and tempered by…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review (Part One)
In preparation for our annual review of the year in 3D printing, I’ve been going through the archives. This year, in addition to the deeper monthly reviews, we’re also publishing this two-part executive summary. The first six months of 2025…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: The Future of 3D Printing and the Reality
Each year, the 3D printing industry makes predictions about itself. Some are bold, some cautious, many familiar. What matters is not whether a forecast proves perfectly accurate, but whether the direction of travel becomes clearer when confronted with reality. Looking…
A decade of Formnext, an Endurance Test and the Slow Industrialisation of Imagination
When Formnext opened its doors in Frankfurt in 2015, it was a compact showcase for the emerging industrial side of 3D printing. Two hundred exhibitors filled a corner of the Messe; visitors wandered between laser-sintering systems and polymer prototypes, still…
