After more than a decade in the market, Carbon is experienced enough to know where to focus. The shift is away from expansion and spectacle, and towards making polymer additive manufacturing behave like an industrial system. Philip DeSimone, Carbon’s co-founder…
Cost-per-part challenge: Raise3D lines up RMS220 against industrial SLS and MJF
Raise3D is expanding its dependable FDM portfolio to include SLS 3D printing as a manufacturer with industrial ambitions. Under Chief Operations Officer Fernando Hernandez, the company has channelled a large share of its workforce into engineering, while watching low-cost rivals…
INTERVIEW: Gian Paolo Bassi: AI gains in engineering come from friction removal, not automation theatre
Dassault Systèmes has spent years selling a platform story. Gian Paolo Bassi, one of its most recognisable product voices, now talks about it less as a roadmap and more as a habit formed under pressure. I visited the company mid-way…
Nikon’s Additive Strategy: Big machines, Cautious promises, and a Long Industrial Horizon
Nikon’s move into additive manufacturing was not a sudden departure from cameras into fashionably futuristic territory, according to Hamid Zarringhalam, chief executive of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing. It reflects the company’s long industrial lineage, stretching from optics and glass through semiconductor…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: December 2025
December didn’t behave like a year-end victory lap. It read more like an audit. The month’s clearest signal was not a new machine or a fresh acronym, but the steady arrival of constraints: production volumes that can be checked, standards…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: November 2025
November is when the industry’s centre of gravity becomes difficult to deny. Taken in aggregate, the month is less like a sequence of product announcements and more like a set of institutional decisions about capacity: who gets funded, who gets…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: October 2025
October’s most revealing shift did not come from the launch of new machines or a new process. It was the way additive manufacturing started being treated as accountable infrastructure: emissions quantified in annual reports, class-society approval as a gating mechanism,…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: September 2025
September’s stories read less like a technology cycle and more like a governance cycle. Additive manufacturing shows up as procurement logic, qualification plumbing, and maintenance economics, while the sector’s weaker narratives (roll-up era assets, undifferentiated “industrial AM” side bets, and…
3D Printing Industry Year in Review: August 2025
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…
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…
