Archive - The 3D Printing Journal

China Watch #3: Farsoon prepares its largest-ever financing, while Chinese 3D printer exports overtake industrial robots

This edition also covers the Continuous Composites lawsuit, metal-ceramic composites from QiYu Tech, and Bambu Lab’s record graduate recruitment drive

21 hrs ago • Anna Slusarczyk

The metal 3D printing industry is afraid of its own shadow, and pays millions for it

The certification costs more than the machine, and (almost) nobody wants to talk about it

Aug 12 • Pawel Slusarczyk

Continuous Composites sues Anisoprint (FibreSeek) for patent infringement over continuous-fiber printing

Patent infringement lawsuit covers ten continuous-fiber printing patents after unsuccessful licensing negotiations

Aug 11 • Roksana Slusarczyk

The company that created the market and is still looking for its place in it

Three CEOs, a half-billion-dollar write-off, and the question of what 3D Systems actually is today

Aug 10 • Pawel Slusarczyk

Western Report #2: lots of executive changes and lots of AI

3D Systems is looking for Graves’ successor and reports Q2 results; 6K Additive posts a record quarter, Ricoh sells its healthcare business, and the…

Aug 7 • Anna Slusarczyk

China Watch #2: JLC goes public with a valuation of over RMB 115 billion (and nine other stories)

JLC goes public, eSUN prints at 1000 mm/s, Bambu Lab opens a store in Thailand, and China introduces six new standards for metal 3D printing

Aug 6 • Anna Slusarczyk

Dyndrite and America Makes take on LPBF qualification for US Defense

Dyndrite joins two Delta Qual 2.0 projects to modernize metal 3D printing qualification for defense

Aug 5 • Pawel Slusarczyk

REPORT: Bondtech "nozzlegate"

Bondtech marketed INDX nozzles as hardened, but they turned out not hardened enough to deliver what was advertised

Aug 4 • Roksana Slusarczyk

The 3D printing market is growing and will continue to grow, but it remains a niche manufacturing method

Every dataset for 2025 points to uninterrupted growth - yet additive manufacturing still pales in comparison to injection molding and CNC

Aug 3 • Pawel Slusarczyk

July 2026

Western Report #1: a week on the Western 3D printing market

Bondtech admits the INDX nozzle issue, EOS expands into hydrogen, 3D Systems makes FDA history, and Prusa launches cloud subscriptions

Jul 31 • Anna Slusarczyk

China Watch #1: a week on China’s 3D printing market

Bambu Lab is entering Apple stores, two Kickstarter campaigns continue to break records, exports, metal AM patents, and investments keep gaining…

Jul 30 • Anna Slusarczyk

You write a sentence - CAD does the work. You can now control FreeCAD through Claude and ChatGPT!

Tell Claude to design a part, and FreeCAD will build it

Jul 29 • Pawel Slusarczyk

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