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.

With a major update to Geomagic Freeform, Hexagon is aiming to make advanced 3D design easier to access for manufacturers, designers and small businesses.

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.

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.

When a filling line stops, the right spare part often decides how quickly production can restart. Morsan and the Levoss Group want to address this challenge with digitally stored, additively manufactured components made from high-performance Luvocom 3F materials for the food and beverage industry.

With Sculpteo joining the 3D Prod group, two French additive manufacturing specialists are combining their strengths in industrial production, digital manufacturing and international customer service. The new group will employ 100 people and aims to expand from prototyping and one-off parts into larger-scale series production, targeting 20 million euros in revenue by 2027.

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.

Materials took centre stage at the first 3D Plast Lab during Plast 2026, where researchers, companies and designers explored how additive manufacturing is moving beyond shape alone. The projects ranged from plant-based composites and transparent wood to recycled automotive plastics, bioactive wearables and ultra-thin printed devices..

As 3D CAD models with PMI become central to manufacturing, metrology teams need faster and more consistent ways to turn digital product data into measurement programs. Mitutoyo CTL’s Micat Planner addresses this challenge by automating CNC measurement programming, standardising strategies and reducing manual effort.