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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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India Sinks Its First 3D-Printed Coral Reef Modules Off the Tamil Nadu Coast
Chennai construction-printing startup Tvasta and ICAR-CMFRI deployed India's first 3D-printed artificial reef modules in the Gulf of Mannar, swapping rebar-and-formwork casting for printed crevices designed to lure specific marine species.
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Framatome Opens €25M Nuclear-Grade Metal 3D Printing Center in France
Framatome's new €25M, 6,000 m² facility in Romans-sur-Isère combines laser powder bed fusion and wire arc additive manufacturing to print nuclear reactor spare parts up to 5 meters long and several tons heavy.
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Jaden Smith Teases a Fully 3D-Printed Christian Louboutin Dress Shoe Made With Zellerfeld
Jaden Smith folded a red-soled, all-black 3D-printed Louboutin derby shoe in half on social media, previewing a Zellerfeld collaboration that pushes single-piece printed footwear into $1,200-plus luxury territory.
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Australia's AMCRC Opens AU$3.25M STARTER Fund to Get SMEs Into 3D Printing
AMCRC's new STARTER program offers Australian SMEs AU$20,000-75,000 in matched co-funding to trial additive manufacturing, with a July 15 info session kicking off rolling applications.
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Startup 3D Prints a Silicon Carbide Nuclear Reactor Core Aimed at AI Data Centers
Florida startup AMPERA unveiled a basketball-sized, fully 3D-printed silicon carbide thorium reactor core with a gyroid lattice, betting additive manufacturing can solve nuclear power's AI-era supply crunch.
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Navy Tests 3D-Printed Composite Patches to Halve F/A-18 Super Hornet Repair Times
The Navy is testing 3D-printed composite patches that could cut select F/A-18 Super Hornet repair times by roughly half and let crews fix cracked panels on-site, with a flight test on an operational jet slated for summer 2026.
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No Ink, No Gravity, No Problem: Auburn and NASA Print Working Electronics in Microgravity
Auburn University and NASA Marshall flew a 60 cm inkless printer through 50 parabolic microgravity arcs, laser-ablating solid silver and copper into conductive traces — and silver came out nearly 49% more conductive in freefall.
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No Batteries, No Motors: Queen's University Students 3D Print an Elbow-to-Fingers Prosthetic for the Thailand-Myanmar Border
A Queen's University biomedical engineering team has built and field-tested a fully mechanical, 3D-printed above-elbow prosthetic that moves the elbow and individual fingers using only the wearer's own body movement — a design now getting fresh attention from the additive-manufacturing trade press.
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Queen's University Students Open-Source a Battery-Free 3D-Printed Prosthetic Arm for Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
A Queen's University team spent three years building a fully mechanical, open-source above-elbow prosthetic with no electronics or batteries for the Burma Children Medical Fund, winning first place at RESNA and runner-up at Rice University.
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California's Printer-Lockdown Bill Clears Committee, Heads to Senate Public Safety
AB 2047, which would force every 3D printer sold in California to include firearm-detection blocking tech by December 2029, advanced through committee in late June and drew EFF warnings that it's unworkable and a surveillance risk for makers.
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Where 3D Printing Actually Works in Audio: Materials Science Over Hype
From SLA resin clarinet mouthpieces to carbon-fiber guitar headstocks, additive manufacturing has carved out real niches in acoustic applications, but the physics of sound reveals exactly where FDM layer lines become liabilities.
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The $24.8 Billion Reckoning: How 3D Printing Is Finally Ditching the Hype for Hard Outcomes
Industry analysts and AM executives entering 2026 are converging on a single theme: the era of measuring progress by hardware deployments is over, replaced by a harder accounting of utilization rates, yield, and repeatable outcomes at scale.
