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Printers
A Saddle That Bends: Ergon Equine 3D Prints SLS Ball Joints for Its BioTree Design
British saddle maker Ergon Equine and igus UK 3D print six SLS ball-joint housings from tribo-polymer iglidur i230 to let the BioTree saddle tree flex across three axes instead of staying rigid like a traditional wood-and-metal tree.
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Guides
Two Lasers, One X-Axis: A Maker's Chemical-Free Route to Glassy FDM Surfaces
Building on his laser layer-adhesion work, YouTuber 'I Changed a Thing' bolted two diode lasers to an FDM printer's X-axis to remelt top surfaces near vapor-smoothed quality with no chemicals, though wall smoothing remains a much harder problem.
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Business
Materialise Posts Q2 2026 Growth as Aerospace Revenue Jumps 40%
Materialise's Q2 2026 revenue rose 8.1% to €70.1 million as a 40% aerospace surge pulled its Manufacturing segment back to growth, prompting a raised full-year profit outlook despite Software segment softness.
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Industry
SPEE3D's Cold-Spray Metal Printer Goes to Sea for the First Time at RIMPAC 2026
A joint US-Canadian team installed SPEE3D's XSPEE3D cold-spray printer aboard the support ship MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, printing 8 of 32 mission-critical metal parts underway in the first-ever shipboard deployment of the technology.
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Printers
AxiLoop's Eight-Nozzle MC8 Makes Its Public Debut at Formnext Asia Shenzhen
A precision-machinery company with no prior 3D printing history showed off an eight-toolhead printer promising a 10x cut in multicolor purge waste at Formnext Asia Shenzhen.
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Business
Creality Posts a First-Half Loss Three Months After Its Hong Kong IPO, Plans $80M Shenzhen HQ
Creality swung to a net loss in H1 2026 despite 12.9% revenue growth, just three months after a 3,829x-oversubscribed Hong Kong IPO, and simultaneously unveiled plans for an RMB550M Shenzhen AM headquarters.
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Materials
Deakin's Rotary-Printed Kirigami Cylinders Program Stiffness Without Changing Material
Deakin and Seoul National University of Science and Technology researchers 3D printed auxetic 'meta-cylinders' on a rotary-modified desktop printer, tuning stiffness and collapse behavior through geometry alone using a single flexible TPU.
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Industry
DOE Backs Coreshell and AM Batteries With $50M to Localize Battery Anode Manufacturing
DOE is putting $50M behind two additive-manufacturing battery startups to build domestic, Chinese-mineral-free anode production using silicon chemistry and roll-to-roll dry coating.
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Guides
A Maker Prints an Epoxy Benchy Inside a Shear-Thinning Support Bath
A syringe-pump extruder and a mineral-oil-and-fumed-silica support gel let a maker embedded-print a two-part-epoxy Benchy, hinting at FDM printing with materials no ordinary hot end can touch.
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Industry
Additive Assurance Partners With NTT Data's XAM to Bring Real-Time Metal-AM Monitoring to Japan
Australian firm Additive Assurance has signed NTT Data XAM Technologies, Japan's first EOS distributor since 1993, to bring real-time AMiRIS quality monitoring to the country's installed base of metal laser powder bed fusion machines.
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Materials
German Startup Malping Wants to Sell FGF PEEK Printing as a Turnkey Service
Stuttgart-area startup Malping is betting that granule-fed PEEK, PEKK, PPS-GF20 and ULTEM 9085 printing — plus a system it will sell you outright — beats filament on cost and beats bureaus on control.
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Printers
From a Rose-Hulman Apartment to RAPID 2026: Unlayered 3D's Bet on Five-Axis Desktop Printing
Two Rose-Hulman grads built a patent-pending five-axis desktop FDM printer in their college apartment, showed a fifth-generation pilot unit at RAPID 2026, and are now signing up pilot users ahead of a San Francisco launch.
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