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…
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan: What It Means for Additive Manufacturing in China and What Has Changed Since 2021
China has approved its 15th Five-Year Plan, setting economic and industrial priorities through to 2030. Manufacturing sits at the centre. Advanced materials, artificial intelligence, industrial software, and high-end equipment all feature prominently. Additive manufacturing is not named in the headline…
[INTERVIEW] Creality CEO pitches long-term growth story as it prepares for IPO
Desktop 3D printing has grown quickly, but its place in everyday life remains uncertain. As Creality moves towards a public listing, its founder is asking investors to look past product cycles and short-term results to a harder question: whether the…
INTERVIEW: Will Perseus Materials’ Bet on Self-propagating Chemistry be “world’s fastest” Composite Manufacturing Technology?
A Stanford-spinout startup is developing a continuous composite manufacturing process it says can produce structural parts larger than the machine making them, using a self-propagating chemical reaction to eliminate the need for ovens, autoclaves or conventional molds. The chemistry originated…
INTERVIEW: EOS CEO Marie Langer on Next Frontier for Industrial 3D Printing
Machines are growing. That much is clear from EOS, the German additive manufacturing company that has spent more than three decades pushing metal powder-bed fusion into industrial use. Those preceding decades were defined by technological possibility; the current phase is…
A Donut-shaped Market: Stratasys’ Yoav Zeif outlines Additive’s Next Phase at AMS 2026
Not obvious that Yoav Zeif would open by thanking the audience for braving the New York snow and market turbulence to reach this year’s AMS event*, but that was his starting point. “Another challenging year in the industry. I don’t…
Additive Manufacturing Advantage Returns with Vertical Focused 3D Printing Industry Events
3D Printing Industry has opened registration and the call for speakers for the 2026 Additive Manufacturing Advantage (AMA) event series, a set of online conferences examining the deployment of additive manufacturing across critical industrial sectors and specifically designed for core…
Why I Was Wrong About the AMUG Conference
I once described the AMUG Conference as agenda-setting. That was imprecise, but not in the way you might expect. The problem wasn’t that AMUG doesn’t shape what the industry talks about. It’s that agenda-setting implies a program committee deciding what…
Six Fault Lines That Will Reshape Additive Manufacturing, 2026–2028
The AM industry has spent years perfecting the technology. The next two years will test whether the business models, regulatory frameworks, and institutional structures around that technology can keep pace. Six structural pressures are converging, each rooted in forces already…
Confidence returns to Additive Manufacturing as Executives Signal Improving Outlook for 2026
After a few rough years, the mood among additive manufacturing executives is shifting. Not euphoric, but noticeably better. New data from the 3D Printing Industry Executive Survey shows that 70.3 per cent of respondents expect business conditions in 2026 to…
