Sandvik’s exit from AM frames a week of qualification, quality data and production-focused process control.
toolcraft is deploying amsight’s digital quality platform to connect machine data, process parameters, inspection results and quality metrics across AM workflows for semiconductor-related production. The collaboration points to a maturing AM quality landscape, where statistical process control and traceable production records are becoming as important as the printing process itself.
Norsk Titanium’s Plattsburgh, New York facility has earned Nadcap accreditation for additive manufacturing, strengthening its position for aerospace and defence programs. The accreditation supports faster supplier audits and gives customers a stronger qualification route for structural titanium parts made with Rapid Plasma Deposition.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed an automated control system that monitors and corrects errors during large-scale polymer 3D printing. The work sits squarely in the shift from open-loop deposition toward adaptive manufacturing, where process monitoring, control logic and machine learning close the gap between prototype printing and reliable production.
Sandvik has moved to exit its additive manufacturing business, signing an agreement to sell the unit to Swedish investment firm Mimir. The decision is one of the clearest signs this year that industrial AM is entering a more selective phase, where large engineering groups are reassessing whether they should own the full AM stack or concentrate on core manufacturing platforms.
The divested business sits within Sandvik’s Machining segment and includes metal powders for additive manufacturing, metal injection moulding, hot isostatic pressing and controlled expansion alloys. Sandvik has been active in AM for more than two decades, but the company has also been revising its exposure to the sector, including earlier changes to its service-provider holdings and a sharpened focus on metal powders.
For the broader AM market, the move is less a rejection of the technology than a statement about capital allocation. Powder production, qualification, customer-specific development and post-processing all require focused investment, while industrial customers increasingly demand certified, repeatable, production-ready systems rather than isolated technology demonstrations.
Mimir’s ownership may give the business a more dedicated platform for growth. At the same time, the sale underlines a wider truth for AM: growth is continuing, but the winners are likely to be companies that can connect materials, process control, qualification and surface finishing into a coherent production chain.
Bambu Lab has introduced the A2L, a larger A-series machine with a 330 × 320 × 325 mm build volume and a claimed 500 mm/s print speed. Positioned as an accessible professional-style system, it adds closed-loop servo control and vibration compensation features aimed at larger prints, props and print-farm applications.
Snapmaker is celebrating its tenth anniversary with updates focused on multi-color printing, materials flexibility and community workflows. The most relevant technical move is the integration of Full Spectrum color blending into Snapmaker Orca, alongside new hardened steel hotends for different detail and throughput regimes.
Mastrex has launched the MX300 metal system, a dual-500 W laser platform with a 300 × 300 × 350 mm build volume and a starting price of $185,000. The company is targeting machine shops, vertically integrated manufacturers and applications in aerospace, defence and medical markets.
Metal Powder Works and Westinghouse Electric Company have moved into a new phase of product development around AM powder production. The work uses MPW’s DirectPowder process to convert bar stock into feedstock for AM, cold spray and powder metallurgy, with nuclear energy components named as a target application.
3D Spark has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, a signal that enterprise AM software is being judged not only on costing and workflow features, but also on information-security discipline.
Invent Medical’s orthotics and prosthetics work shows how scan-to-print workflows can shift clinics from fabrication-heavy routines toward patient-specific digital care.
Newcastle University’s biofabrication approach highlights how AM is being used to make more relevant testing platforms before clinical translation.
Lithography-based metal manufacturing is being positioned for medical production, where detail, repeatability and regulatory documentation all matter.
Healthcare AM is increasingly being paired with digital-body data, giving clinicians a route to mass customization without treating each device as a manual one-off.
Decathlon’s Kiprun brand has launched a 3D printed shoe, adding another major sportswear name to the lattice-midsole and performance-footwear trend.
The A2L’s larger format targets creators and print farms that want single-piece production of larger props, household parts and creative objects.
The amsight-toolcraft collaboration underlines how AM suppliers are building data infrastructure for demanding sectors where traceability is non-negotiable.
The community is reacting to consolidation moves and what they mean for industrial AM hardware portfolios.
A surface-finishing question turns into a practical thread about what metal AM can look like after sanding and polishing.
A classic finishing thread compares sanding, filler, primer and patient iteration for cleaner polymer prints.
The functional-print crowd keeps making the case that useful little fixes are still the most persuasive AM demos.
A practical reminder that capture, modelling and printing are increasingly part of one repair-and-replace workflow.
The celebration is small, but the lesson is big: CAD ownership turns printing from consumption into manufacturing.
This paper targets one of the most important frontiers in metal AM: seeing not just geometry or melt-pool intensity, but chemical information during the build. Robust in-situ spectroscopy and reconstruction could help move LPBF process monitoring closer to material-level quality assurance.
A closed-loop strategy for LPBF thermal control points to tighter layer-by-layer process stability.
Mesoscopic porosity is used as a design lever to improve gas transport in additively manufactured fuel-cell components.
The work addresses debinding as a route to more reliable DLP production of complex titanium alloy parts.
The modelling approach aims to make part-scale LPBF simulation more computationally manageable.
In-situ spectroscopy is used to move LPBF monitoring toward chemical and spatial reconstruction.
Agentic AI is applied to alloy evaluation, suggesting faster exploration of AM-ready materials.
The review connects scan data and machine learning to one of LPBF’s most persistent quality problems: porosity.
Multiple cameras are used to improve visual fault detection in extrusion-based printing.
The study explores multi-nozzle metal droplet jetting as a higher-throughput metal AM route.
Cold spray AM is evaluated for pure iron magnetic applications, extending the process beyond repair and coating use cases.
ABAM proposes a route to multi-material 3D concrete printing through adaptive mixing of binder and aggregate streams.
A dimensionless framework is used to connect melt-pool stability with defect prediction across process conditions.