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 (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…
INTERVIEW: Lithoz CEO Eyes Industrial Expansion as Ceramic 3D Printing Reaches Production Scale
Founded in 2011 out of Vienna University of Technology, Lithoz has grown into one of the key players in ceramic additive manufacturing. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Johannes Homa, says its vision remains consistent: to make additive manufacturing a genuine…
Meet the 3D Printing Industry Awards Expert Committee
A mix of public vote and expert committees chooses the 3DPI Awards. This balance is intended to ensure the awards can scrutinise the whole 3D printing ecosystem and reduce the influence of popularity alone, grounding decisions in technical merit, market…
INTERVIEW: Anycubic CTO on Consumer 3D Printings Next Inflection Point
Anycubic’s CTO, James Ouyang, took some time during the recent Formnext to provide a detailed look at how consumer 3D printing is diverging across global markets, with China becoming both the fastest-growing and the most demanding environment. Our last meeting…
AM Ceramics 2025: The State of 3D Printed Ceramics
As the 3D printing industry expands, increasingly, events focused on specific applications, verticals, or platforms become necessary. Opening this year’s AM Ceramics conference in Vienna, Lithoz CEO Johannes Homa reflected on how additive manufacturing of ceramics has evolved from an…
Creality rejects Bambu Lab MakerWorld’s claims of widespread model infringement, says no legal notice received
Creality has rejected allegations made by MakerWorld that thousands of 3D models published exclusively on its platform were reuploaded without consent to rival services, including Creality Cloud. The company said it has not been contacted by Bambu Lab or MakerWorld…
