Norwegian additive manufacturer Norsk Titanium has signed a Cooperation & Research Agreement (CRA) with Airbus, moving their relationship from program-specific supply into a structured, multi-year industrialization effort. The agreement targets the qualification of Norsk Titanium’s proprietary Rapid Plasma Deposition technology…
Caracol and Eligio Re Fraschini Validate WAAM for Aerospace Tooling with 50% Weight Reduction
Italian aerospace tooling specialist Eligio Re Fraschini partnered with robotic additive manufacturing company Caracol on a co-funded pilot project to test whether wire arc additive manufacturing could viably replace conventional methods for complex aerospace tooling components. The target was a…
Sciaky Returns to Nuclear with NX Atomics SMR Partnership
Small modular reactor startup NX Atomics has announced a partnership with Sciaky, to apply Sciaky’s Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing process, known as EBAM, to components for NX Atomics’ SMR platform.The collaboration aims to reduce both the upfront capital cost and…
Scandium Canada Partners with University of Waterloo to Advance Aluminum-Scandium Alloys for 3D Printing
Mineral exploration company Scandium Canada has signed a mutual non-disclosure agreement with the University of Waterloo to establish a research collaboration focused on additive manufacturing of aluminum-scandium alloys. The partnership pairs Scandium Canada’s Scandium+ division with Waterloo’s Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing…
Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark Unite Under New AM Alliance
The Nordic Additive Manufacturing Alliance (NAMA) marks the first time Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have formally united their expertise in additive manufacturing under a single cooperative framework. Backed by Nordic Innovation through the Nordic Forward: Competitiveness and Resilience for…
UT Austin Shrinks Semiconductor Printing to Research Scale
Semiconductor manufacturing sits at the foundation of modern electronics, yet the barrier to entry is so extreme that meaningful research remains out of reach for most institutions. Extreme Ultraviolet lithography, the dominant technology for printing circuits onto silicon, relies on…
Superfeet Takes Custom 3D Printed Insoles Direct to Consumer With iPhone Scanning
US company Superfeet has expanded its ME3D platform to allow consumers to generate personalized, 3D printed insoles directly from an iPhone scan on superfeet.com, no specialist equipment, no clinic visit required. The underlying technology is driven by a proprietary algorithm…
Harvard 3D Prints Filaments That Bend and Contract Like Biological Muscle
Researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a 3D printing method capable of producing hair-thin filaments that bend, twist, expand, or contract in response to temperature, behaving, in essence, like programmable artificial muscles.…
AMA: Healthcare: When the Simulator Becomes the Teacher: How 3D Printing Is Redefining Surgical Training
3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare 2026 on June 4th. A French collaborative team presented the case for 3D printed surgical simulators at AMA: Healthcare 2025, walking attendees through the development of Otosurg,…
Sandvik Steps Back from AM: A Strategic Exit After Years of AM Investment
Sandvik AB has announced the sale of its Additive Manufacturing business unit to Mimir, a Sweden-based global investment firm. The unit, which sits within Sandvik’s Machining business area, produces metal powders for additive manufacturing, metal injection molding, and hot isostatic…
