The additive manufacturing industry has spent two decades arguing about what’s possible. In 2026, the conversation has finally shifted to what’s survivable. Reviewing responses to our annual Future of 3D Printing executive survey provides unique insight into the direction of…
Nikon writes down ¥90bn on SLM Solutions as metal 3D printing growth expectations reset
Nikon has taken close to ¥90bn ($574.7 million) in impairment charges, mostly against its additive manufacturing business, marking a significant retreat from the growth assumptions that underpinned its 2023 acquisition of SLM Solutions. Impairment reflects revised assumptions behind SLM acquisition…
60% faster print speeds with 4-Laser Industrial SLA
Join us online as we welcome UnionTech for an exclusive technical webinar introducing the RSPro800 X, the world’s first 4-laser synchronous industrial SLA 3D printer, purpose-built to remove the speed and cost limitations of traditional single-laser systems. The event takes…
[INTERVIEW] “No reason not to use it”: DMG MORI Makes the Case for Additive’s Endgame
On a shopfloor, the difference between a promising build and a costly failure can come down to heat that drifts a few degrees over a long cycle. For DMG MORI, that reality is pushing metal additive manufacturing away from spectacle…
[INTERVIEW] Carbon: Why Cost Curves, Not 3D Printers, Decide the Future of Polymer AM
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…
