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Additive manufacturing built its sustainability pitch on how little material it wastes while printing. What happens to a part once it's done being useful is a separate question, and the recycling infrastructure built for mono-material waste mostly can't answer it yet.
The chemistry behind filament moisture absorption, and why the popular one-time drying fix holds up far better for some materials than others.
Multi Jet Fusion reuses up to 80 percent of its nylon powder every build, and the chemistry explains why the parts rarely seem to notice.
A decade after Voxel8 promised a single printer that could wire itself, 3D printed electronics settled into three narrower, more durable techniques instead of the one-machine dream it started from.
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Sep 9, 2026
Most desktop 3D printers run on firmware nobody at the company wrote, and that borrowed code is a big reason hobbyist machines caught up to industrial ones so quickly.
Sep 8, 2026
A single certified aerospace or medical part now needs an unbroken data trail back to its powder lot, machine parameters, and build monitoring records. Here's what that digital thread costs to build, and why it's becoming the real product.
Sep 6, 2026
Electron beam melting holds the entire powder bed near 700°C, erasing the thermal gradient that leaves laser-printed metal parts residually stressed, but the mechanism it trades that problem for shows up just as clearly once the fatigue data comes in.
Sep 5, 2026
From a plastic printer fixing its own faceplate on the ISS in 2014 to a stainless-steel bracket melted in microgravity a decade later, additive manufacturing's slow climb into orbit shows each generation solving exactly the problem the last one couldn't.
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