Boston Micro Fabrication has launched the new Microarch S150 Series, bringing industrial-grade micro-precision 3D printing to a compact benchtop format.

In October 2026, Fakuma will once again attract international visitors to the trade fair centre at Lake Constance. The exhibition will cover the entire chain of plasicts processing, from raw material handling to injection moulding and 3D printing.

What if metal 3D printing no longer needed STL files? Researchers have demonstrated an STL-free approach to laser powder bed fusion that delivers microscale lattice structures with dramatically improved strength, surface quality and computational efficiency.

Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon have created a water-based, room-temperature 3D printing ink made mostly from upcycled lignin that needs no heat curing. Printed parts can be recycled simply by adding water, enabling repeated reuse and a potential step toward circular additive manufacturing.

Hiroshima University researchers are working on 3D printing tungsten carbide–cobalt (WC–Co), a super-hard material used in cutting and construction tools. Their hot-wire laser approach uses less of the expensive raw material and still delivers very high hardness, pointing to a more efficient way to make wear-resistant parts.

At Formnext 2025, Krauss Maffei will present the Powerprint Flex together with a matching tool — a modular 3D printing system designed for relatively large components.

The 2025 Formnext appearance of Aim 3D will highlight new developments in 3D pellet printing, featuring the High Performance Upgrade for the ExAM 255 and ExAM 510 systems and Voxelfill-based slicer tools developed with Create it Real to improve strength, precision and efficiency.

3D printing is extremely practical when you want to produce small quantities of customised components. However, this technology has always had one major problem: 3D printers can only process a single material at a time. Until now, objects with different material properties in different areas could only be 3D printed at great expense, if at all.

Additive manufacturing company Xjet announces the Carmel Pro, a compact and cost-efficient metal and ceramic 3D printing system that makes industrial-grade Nano Particle Jetting (NPJ) technology.

With a new subsidiary in Milan, Replique is reinforcing its commitment to the European manufacturing sector. The Italian branch expands the company’s capacity to deliver on-demand production using 3D printing, CNC and injection moulding technologies.