Australia's AMCRC leads a production-focused issue spanning simulation, SLS materials, space robotics, and surface post-processing.
Australia's Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre has approved its first five industry-led CORE projects, moving the national program from funding architecture into applied industrial research. The projects unlock more than AU$11 million in combined investment, including Commonwealth support, matched industry funding, and substantial in-kind contributions from research and commercial partners.
The scope is broad, spanning aerospace, mobility and transport, medtech, mining, and defence. That breadth matters because it frames additive manufacturing not as a single-machine story, but as a production capability tied to advanced materials, sustainable design, qualification, and high-performance manufacturing.
The signal for the AM sector is clear: public funding is being paired with industry-led problems and commercial deployment pathways. The CORE program is intended to move technologies from proof-of-concept toward pilot production, where material data, process control, post-processing, and certification become as important as the printed geometry itself.
For a field often judged by isolated demonstrations, the Australian program reads like a shift toward systems-level adoption. The coming test will be whether the projects can translate AM research into qualified, repeatable manufacturing workflows that industry can trust at scale.
ETH students have built and tested a rotating detonation rocket engine, using LPBF prototypes in a project that combines propulsion, DfAM, testing, and practical systems engineering.
14Trees and Tvasta have launched the Cedar construction 3D printer, a large-format gantry system aimed at remote environments where local material use and field robustness may matter as much as deposition speed.
Electroninks has launched CircuitJet IV, a desktop platform that integrates PCB fabrication, plating, solder-mask deposition, assembly, and reflow for rapid electronics prototyping.
Localized additive manufacturing is being positioned as a repair strategy for irrigation systems, where printed replacement parts can shorten downtime from weeks to days.
Interspectral will work with Saab, AMEXCI, and Scaleout Systems on TRUSTAM, a Swedish project focused on AI-powered, federated quality assurance for additive manufacturing.
Snowbird Technologies' SAMM Tech system will join RIMPAC 2026 as part of a distributed advanced manufacturing experiment linking metal AM, polymer AM, and CNC capability.
UltiMaker's Factor 4 Plus is being positioned around faster professional polymer printing and defence-oriented needs where speed must still be paired with evidence of part quality.
Soiboi Soft is drawing attention for practical demonstrations that combine 3D printing, soft robotics, and microfluidics into accessible, experimentally rich devices.
Chromatic 3D Materials has reported a static-fire test of 3D printed rocket propellant that withstood combustion pressures above 1,800 psi using reactive extrusion additive manufacturing.
Eplus3D, Rosswag, and qualloy have signed an MOU to combine large-scale metal PBF equipment, alloy powders, and process expertise for next-generation metal AM qualification.
A shop-floor dashboard question turns machine data, maintenance status, and build records into a real production headache.
A repair story moves from plastic prototypes to SLM aluminum, with tolerance and post-processing lessons along the way.
Powder selection gets practical as users debate flowability, oxygen pickup, particle distribution, and alloy forgiveness.
A small printed object solves a very human electrical-panel problem with a physical reminder.
Clear prints bring the community back to the hard truth that transparency often depends on surface finishing.
Print polishing advice turns into a compact discussion of scrapers, sanding, and the many ways to fight layer lines.
This paper is the strongest fit for today's scope because it links PBF-LB/M copper, surface engineering, and functional performance. The reported two-step vibro-finishing route reduces roughness from the as-built state to sub-micrometric values, underscoring how surface post-processing can be decisive for demanding AM applications.
Surface engineering is shown to be central to improving PBF-LB/M copper parts for high-performance use.
The study focuses on how engineered roughness affects mechanical components produced by PBF-LB/M.
The work turns LPBF literature into a knowledge graph to support transparent reasoning about process parameters and defects.
The paper connects productivity-oriented parameter changes with density, microhardness, and roughness in laser-based PBF.
A numerical modelling review maps the physical and computational complexity behind PBF process simulation.
Reinforcement learning is applied to scan-path planning, linking AI methods with thermal management in LPBF.
The review surveys conventional and nonconventional abrasive finishing routes for additively manufactured metal parts.
Laser and mechanical polishing are combined to improve SLM 316L surface quality.
The review tracks post-processing options for polymer AM parts where surface quality limits function.
Hybrid material extrusion with in-process finishing is analysed for its effect on surface finish and part strength.
The work models LPBF surface topography and how roughness changes after burnishing post-treatment.
A broad review frames surface post-treatments as a bottleneck for fatigue, wear, accuracy, and aesthetics in metal AM.