Additive Manufacturing Media

09/12/2025

PIC OF THE WEEK 📸 This week’s Pic highlights a spare part replacement story.

When a cast stainless steel diffuser gave out after decades of use in a hydraulic system on a naval vessel, there were no spares available. Not a spare to...spare. Meltio used its dual-platform directed energy deposition (DED) tech to manufacture a new diffuser with increased wall thickness and without extraneous ribs.

stats:
🧵 Material: 316L stainless steel wire
📏 Part height: 300 mm
⏳ Printing time: 30 hours

09/12/2025

First 3D-printed solar arrays will fly Spectrolab solar cells aboard small satellites built by Millennium Space Systems

First 3D-printed solar arrays will fly Spectrolab solar cells aboard small satellites built by Millennium Space Systems

09/05/2025

PIC OF THE WEEK: This week, we’re looking at a literal bucket of parts — 300,000 stand-off components that could have been injection molded.

Instead, they were 3D printed thanks to a modular, automated 3D printing platform.

This 's stats:
🖨️ Machine: Photocentric JENI
⚡ Process: Photopolymerization
🧮 Batch: 300,000 total parts, with 690 parts per build plate
🕓 Print time: 4 hours
🫰 Cost per part: €0.03

09/05/2025

IMPACT 3.0 aims to demonstrate lead time, productivity and yield improvements for casting and forging (C&F) manufacturing operations using additive manufacturing technologies.

IMPACT 3.0 aims to demonstrate lead time, productivity and yield improvements for casting and forging (C&F) manufacturing operations using additive manufacturing technologies.

09/04/2025

With Ackuretta joining Pac-Dent, clinicians and labs can expect expanded service, training and technical support, along with a faster cadence of integrated end-to-end solutions.

With Ackuretta joining Pac-Dent, clinicians and labs can expect expanded service, training and technical support, along with a faster cadence of integrated end-to-end solutions.

08/29/2025

PIC OF THE WEEK 📸 This week’s Pic
shows one way that 3D printing is helping to advance
computing technology.

This cold plate made by Fabric8Labs from pure copper
showcases how 3D printing can enable more complex
designs for these components, which are critical to
cooling computing chips.

stats:
🔧 Material: Copper
🏗️ Process: Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing,
performed by Fabric8Labs
📏 Layer height: Selectable between 10 and 50
microns

08/29/2025

The DoD has prioritized CFAM for its ability to produce robust, lightweight parts by combining plastics with long fibers such as carbon or fiberglass, delivering high performance.

The DoD has prioritized CFAM for its ability to produce robust, lightweight parts by combining plastics with long fibers such as carbon or fiberglass, delivering high performance.

08/27/2025

Full build plate of KLINGA Sabres.

The KLINGA project highlights scalability, quality and precision of additive manufacturing for sharp-featured titanium components. Full build plate of KLINGA Sabres.

08/22/2025

PIC OF THE WEEK 📸 This week's Pic shows off additive manufacturing's capabilities for making cutting tools for CNC machining.

The web-like structure of these bell-shaped milling tools provides contoured internal coolant channels and also reduces their overall weight. Production Machining editor-in-chief Derek Korn spotted these tools at the 2025 Horn Technology Days hosted by Paul Horn GmbH in Germany.

stats:
🔧 Material: 1.2709 tool steel
⚙️ Machine: TRUMPF TruPrint 3000
✉️ Batch size: 6 tool bodies
⏳ Printing time: 61.5 hours

08/19/2025

Project presents a significant opportunity to enhance the AM supply chain by improving alignment with government acquisition requirements.

Project presents a significant opportunity to enhance the AM supply chain by improving alignment with government acquisition requirements.

08/14/2025

The Additive Minds Academy, in partnership with NASA, to help expand access to industrial 3D printing through technical knowledge and practical skills.

The Additive Minds Academy, in partnership with NASA, to help expand access to industrial 3D printing through technical knowledge and practical skills.

08/09/2025

Source: Metal Powder Works

Metal Powder Works, a leader in advanced metal powder production technology, has entered into a contract valued at approximately $1M AUD for a unique, mobile and containerized version of its patented DirectPowder system with the U.S.

Source: Metal Powder Works Metal Powder Works, a leader in advanced metal powder production technology, has entered  into a contract valued at approximately $1M AUD for a unique, mobile and containerized version of its patented DirectPowder system with the U.S.