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From February 23-25, 2027, Additive Manufacturing Strategies will be back for its 10th iteration. The important AM industry business conference will once again return to New York City, though hopefully without the blizzard this time around. But, while we may not be able to predict the weather, we can tell you what’s on the agenda for AMS X.

09:00 am by Joris Peels 3D PrintingAerospace 3D PrintingBusinessDronesMetal 3D PrintingMilitary 3D PrintingNorth America For a long time, Beehive Industries was very mysterious. The secretive firm was burning a lot of cash working on something super secret with a tribe of very experienced Additive people. Led by Mohammad Ehteshami, who spent over 32 years at GE working on the GE90 and other engine programs, the company only fairly recently revealed what it is doing.

After spending 17 years helping build healthcare applications at 3D Systems and its predecessor Medical Modeling, Katie Weimer wasn’t planning to launch a startup. But when a regenerative breast tissue project she had worked on for years was in danger of being shelved, she decided to take a chance. “It was just kind of going to go away, and I said, ‘I’ll take it,'” Weimer told 3DPrint.com. “I had been working on this regenerative breast tissue project since probably 2021.

08:00 am by Joris Peels 3D Printing3D Printing Materials Mike Zimmerman started in research before starting his own startups. Now his firm makes a fiber with some very exciting properties indeed. The material has been turned into a very high-strength filament. We talk to Mike about the beginnings of his research, how he approaches invention, how he views entrepreneurship, and the prospects of his firm.

When Elegoo unveiled the world’s first officially licensed emoji®-themed 3D printer, it wasn’t just launching another version of an existing machine. The company was testing a much bigger idea by exploring whether a global brand like emoji® could make 3D printing feel more familiar to people who have never used it before. “We think 3D printing has entered a stage where it’s really accessible to everyone,” Elegoo’s Ryan Wang, Senior PR Manager, told 3DPrint.com.

In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with relief efforts for the earthquakes that hit Venezuela last month. Then we’ll move on to a new white paper from PostProcess Technologies, and a new strategic guide from ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE). The LEGO Group opened its first dedicated manufacturing innovation center, which includes an AM center.

Kentstrapper makes Material Extrusion systems in Italy. Now the firm has released the 1,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm build volume Mille system. The one-cubic-meter build volume is actively heated by six independent pads across the build floor. You can slide out the print bed to remove parts. The build chamber temperature can reach 60°C while the bed can be heated to 120°C. The Magnetic Extrusion System means that you can swap toolheads quickly without any tools at all.

The bar for metal additive manufacturing has moved. Early on, the question was often simple: Can the machine print the material and produce a dense part? That still matters, but it is no longer enough. You can see this across metal AM. Laser powder bed fusion continues to advance quickly. More lasers, higher power, beam shaping, larger machines, better monitoring, and increased automation are pushing L-PBF further into production.

With the release of the new HP 1200 and the Formlabs X1, we can see real competition from very different segments. From several million dollars to just $20,000, the laser powder bed fusion market is going to be a much more competitive place over the next twelve months. In the first part of this article, we looked at the largest systems; now we focus on the mid-market, where most systems are sold.

03:00 am by Sangmin "Simon" Lee 3D Printers3D Printing3D Printing Materials3D Printing Research3D SoftwareAdditive ManufacturingAsiaChina's Belt and 3D Printed RoadEditorials / Opinions By the usual measure, a tally of funding rounds, APAC’s additive manufacturing market had a quiet second quarter. The capital that has actually closed across the region comes to about $556M in financing and IPO proceeds.