September 2026
President’s Report
The AMUG Board, committees, and volunteers are settling into their roles and working hard to make AMUG 2027 a great educational conference. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes, and I’m excited to see our team bringing together the learning, conversations, and connections that make AMUG special.
Our members make all this possible. If you’ve been thinking about getting more involved, I encourage you to take that next step, whether by volunteering or running for an AMUG Board position. The following board positions will be open for election during the 2027 AMUG Conference:
Dallas Martin
President
- Secretary
- Director, Education and Conference
- Director, Marketing and Events
- Director, Sponsors and Exhibitors
Serving on the board is a chance to bring your ideas to the table and help shape AMUG’s future. We need people who care about this community and are ready to contribute.
Learn more about these positions and the election process here. We will be ready to accept your Submissions of Interest in early November.
We’re also encouraging start-ups to apply for the AMUG Start-up Launchpad. If your company is bringing new ideas to AM, this is an opportunity to share your work and connect with the AMUG community. Know a start-up that would be a great fit? Encourage them to apply!
For Start-up Launchpad details, click here.
Don’t forget that conference registration is open! Register today and book your hotel room for a chance to be selected for an upgrade to a suite. And be sure to order your AMUG event shirt during registration.
I look forward to seeing you at AMUG 2027!
Dallas Martin
President
President@amug.com
REMINDER: 2027 AMUG Conference Call for Speakers is Open
AMUG is seeking engaging, technically rich, educational sessions given by users of AM technology to elevate the conference experience and share knowledge across the AM community. Abstract submissions for presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, and workshops are now being accepted for the 2027 conference.
The submission deadline is October 21, 2026.
Call for speakers: submit an abstract for AMUG 2027.
Book Early. Get Rewarded.
Registration for the 2027 AMUG Conference is now open, and there’s an extra reason to make your plans early.
Register for AMUG 2027 and book your room through the official AMUG room block for a chance to win a complimentary suite upgrade at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.
One eligible attendee will be selected each month to receive the upgrade through the end of the early-bird registration period, giving you multiple chances to win when you register and book early.
How to Qualify
- Register for AMUG 2027.
Secure your conference registration at the early-bird rate of $1,295 through December 11, 2026. - Book your hotel.
Reserve your room through the official AMUG room block at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City. - You’re entered.
Eligible attendees who complete both steps will be included in the AMUG suite upgrade drawing.
The conference, hotel, AMUGexpo, meals, networking, and evening activities are hosted at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, so booking within the AMUG room block keeps you right where the action is.
Win an upgrade to a suite at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.
Getting to AMUG 2027 Just Got Easier
Flying in for the 2027 AMUG Conference? We’re making it easier to get from Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.
AMUG will offer arranged bus transportation between Philadelphia International Airport and the conference hotel, providing a convenient option for attendees traveling to and from the conference.
AMUG Shuttle Service
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City
- $80 per person, one way
- Sunday, March 14: Departures at 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, and 4:00 pm
- Friday, March 19: Departures at 8:30 am and 11:00 am
The trip from PHL to Harrah’s Resort is approximately 65 miles and takes about one hour.
To reserve a shuttle, add the transportation option to your AMUG Conference registration and select your preferred date and departure time for each leg of your trip.
Fly into PHL and shuttle to Atlantic City.
SPONSOR NEWS
GoEngineergoengineer.com
Don’t Leave Money on the Table with Section 179
Thinking about investing in new CAD software, 3D printing, scanning, or manufacturing technology? You may be able to deduct the full cost of qualifying purchases this tax year through Section 179, helping you lower your tax burden while upgrading the tools your team needs to innovate and grow. Timing is of the essence, since you must place the purchase in service during the tax year.
There’s not much time left to take advantage of these savings, so don’t delay. Explore how Section 179 could help stretch your budget and accelerate your technology investments.
Learn more and estimate your potential savings: Section 179 Tax Deductions.
Spend to save.
Stratasysstratasys.com
F870™ Industrial 3D Printer:
The large-format FDM® platform built for factory-floor tooling.
Stratasys recently launched the new F870™ FDM® system, a large-format AM platform designed for industrial manufacturers, automotive OEMs, and aerospace & defense production lines that are looking to scale production on the factory floor.
Designed for production-support applications, the F870 features a build volume of 1000 x 610 x 610 mm (39.4 x 24 x 24 in.) and a portfolio of industrial-grade materials, including Nylon 12CF™, ASA, ABS, and the new FDM® ABS Draft (Gray).
Systems are currently being adopted by leading manufacturers, including Toyota Production Engineering in Georgetown, Kentucky, and Rivian Automotive in Plymouth, Michigan. These organizations are assessing the platform across a range of applications, from factory-floor tooling and manufacturing aids to advanced prototyping workflows, ahead of commercial availability.
Read the press release here.
Produce large, industrial-grade parts with speed, accuracy, and ease.
AMT PostProamtechnologies.com
Smoothing Prosthetics with PostPro Pure
Vapor smoothing is often discussed in terms of the finished part: it achieves smoother and sealed surfaces, reduces porosity, and improves functional performance. Today, we want to look at the consumable that makes that finish possible.
PostPro Pure is AMT’s sustainable vapor smoothing consumable. It is readily biodegradable, showed no cytotoxic effect in ISO 10993-5 testing, listed in the FDA-approved database, and approved for food contact in the EU, provided the base material is suitable.
Those properties count most where parts meet people. The Atlantic Clinic for Upper Limb Prosthetics at the University of New Brunswick smooths its MJF PA12 prosthetics with Pure and reports reduced friction against skin, less catching on clothing, better resistance to staining, and sealed surfaces that stay easier to clean, with repeatable results across clinical production.
See more applications finished with PostPro Pure at Formnext, Hall 12.1 Booth E41, from November 17–20.
MJF PA12 prosthetic components vapor smoothed with PostPro Pure at the Atlantic Clinic for Upper Limb Prosthetics.
MEDIA SPONSOR NEWS
Going the Distance…Inside the Latest Issue of TCT
The Autumn issue of TCT Magazine is out now and takes us from the UK to Belgium to Amsterdam and beyond to see first-hand, real industrial use cases of AM technologies.
For our latest cover story, we sat down with Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen for a conversation spanning healthcare, openness, and rejecting the hype around the industry the company helped build.
We also have exclusive in-depth features including:
- Inside Beehive’s scale-up
- AM in teeth-straightening devices
- How Avio Aero became an AM leader
- Why Divergent developed the Monolith One
The print magazine is now on its way to Exec Members, and if you’re not already signed up, you can become an Exec today and get digital access to the full issue plus our monthly Deep Dive reports, vertical newsletters, VIP perks at events, and more.
Autumn issue of TCT Magazine.
3Dnatives3dnatives.com
Printed in Seconds: Six Volumetric 3D Printing Projects to Know in 2026
One of the cornerstones of AM is the principle of “layer by layer.” Well, there’s one 3D printing technique that disagrees with that completely: volumetric 3D printing. Instead of building an object slice by slice, it cures an entire object at once inside a vat of photosensitive resin, more like a hologram materializing in three dimensions than anything we’d normally call printing.
What makes volumetric 3D printing worth watching is speed and precision. Objects that would take hours to print layer by layer can be cured in seconds, with no visible layer lines and virtually no support structures needed. That’s opening doors in bioprinting (gentle curing preserves living cells), optics and microfluidics (where sub-layer precision matters), and rapid prototyping.
Discover six projects, spanning multiple continents, in the full article here.
3D-printed models from Tsinghua University’s DISH project. (Photo Credit: Tsinghua University.)
VoxelMattersvoxelmatters.com
VoxelMatters Large-format AM Focus 2026 eBook
VoxelMatters’ first eBook dedicated exclusively to large-format AM (LFAM) is now available. This topic is unique because it doesn’t focus on a specific technology or adopter area. Rather, LFAM encompasses various polymer, composite, and metal AM solutions that share one thing: the ability to print big—sometimes really, really big.
The VoxelMatters team is excited to present an array of content that highlights the broad scope of the LFAM subsegment. Our opening analysis chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies and processes under the LFAM umbrella, including hybrid platforms, FGF, WAAM, and more. Next, we turn our focus to AML3D, which specializes in WAM-based, large-scale metal AM. In this feature, we dive into the company’s expanding partnerships in the submarine and maritime sectors worldwide.
We then highlight a series of recent—and altogether quite fun—use cases for LFAM technologies, including a gigantic robot prop, music festival furniture, and a self-driving boat. Last but certainly not least, we present our LFAM mapping chapter, which covers the leading hardware companies in the polymer LFAM space.
View or download VoxelMatters’ LFAM AM eBook by clicking here.
VoxelMatters’ large-format AM eBook is now available.
Metal AM magazinemetal-am.com
Ceramic AM Enables 500 mm Dual-channel Gas Distribution Ring for High-speed PEALD and ALE in the Same Chamber
As semiconductor manufacturers move towards larger substrates and faster atomic-scale processes, the components inside wafer production tools must scale up without compromising precision. Plasway-Technologies, Alumina Systems, and Lithoz have developed a 500 mm dual-channel alumina gas distribution ring for Plasway-Technologies’ FAST Atomic Layering Process (FALP) platform.
Produced using Lithoz’s ceramic AM, the ring enables high-speed Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (PEALD) and Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) in the same chamber, while maintaining highly uniform gas distribution across large wafer substrates.
Read this article here.
FALP ring segments produced on Lithoz CeraFab S320. (Image courtesy of Alumina Systems.)
Engineering.comengineering.com
This is How You do AM for Defense
In a sit-down interview with Beehive Industries Chief Product Officer, Gordie Follin, we learn more about how the company is using AM to gain an edge in defense manufacturing.
It’s hard to imagine a better example of what AM can do for defense than Beehive Industries. From its design process to its products to its approach to production, this company has 3D printing encoded in its DNA. If you’re wondering what the future of manufacturing in the defense sector more generally looks like, this is it.
Read the story here.
Test firing the Frenzy engine. (Image courtesy of Beehive Industries)
3D Printing Industry3dprintingindustry.com
Your Invite to AMA: Software on October 22, 2026
3D Printing Industry’s next free online Additive Manufacturing Advantage event will examine the software transforming industrial 3D printing.
AMA: Software will explore the digital ecosystem from cybersecurity to practical application of agentic AI. Speakers will discuss AI-assisted design, simulation, topology optimization, build preparation, process monitoring, workflow automation, quality assurance, and the integration of AM into connected factories. Presentations and panel discussions will consider both emerging technologies and the practical barriers to deploying them at scale.
3D Printing Industry is also inviting speaker proposals from software developers, researchers, manufacturers, and AM users with original technical insights, applications, or case studies to share.
Attend AMA: Software 2026 or apply to speak at the online event.
Free registration is now open.
3DPrint.com3dprint.com
The Evolution and Future of the AM Services Market (and How We’re Tracking It)
If it feels like AM and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It’s been a long road, but today additive technologies are finally in the conversations of engineers and product designers at the earliest planning and design stages of making things.
Although there are still challenges to solve and roadblocks to many different applications where additive could be used, many real, commercial parts are manufactured via additive processes around the world today.
Earlier this year, Additive Manufacturing Research published a new iteration of one of its most ambitious additive market tracking projects, which attempts to put a number on this phenomenon: how many parts are printed each year?
Our best answer, which necessarily excludes at least some of the market, is about 28 million metal parts and 454 million polymer parts for 2025. But the bigger change is not just how many parts are being printed. It is how they’re produced and what customers expect from service providers.
What was once an “additive print services” market is becoming an “additive production services” market. We are building a new model to track and forecast this market and are pre-selling the report at a 50%+ discount upon publication in Q4 2026/Q1 2027.
Learn more here.
Soon-to-be-released report will use new tracking and forecasting models to address the production side of AM services.
3D ADEPT3dadept.com
“Too Good to be True”
The latest edition of 3D ADEPT Mag is out.
With no FAA, no FDA, and no thirty-year service life to prove it, we’re often tempted to think AM looks way too easy in the creative industries.
From entertainment, jewelry, and architecture to the arts and even fashion, applications seem to be manufactured in the blink of an eye. A prop? A ring? A facade? It just has to look convincing under a light.
Yet, most sections of this new edition of 3D ADEPT Mag highlight how it remains complex, demanding, and as remarkable as applications in aerospace or medical.
The problem may be how we measure it. When looking at AM in the creative industries, we unconsciously expect the technology to generate the billions it promises elsewhere. What should raise our interest is the applications AM enables, what experts from these industries know that we do not, and how each of them builds a business model that survives without high part volumes.
With this foundation in mind, you will realize that in this issue, technology experts and experts from the creative industries are teaching us when not to deploy AM, what the business model of AM looks like in entertainment, fashion, architecture, jewelry, or even sports or consumer goods sectors.
After weeks of talking and learning from them, we are now eager to believe creative industries are the most honest testing ground for AM. With the fewest constraints, experts across these industries are teaching us that they are more selective and more demanding about what deserves to be printed.
Download the mag to discover more.
Cover of the latest 3D ADEPT Mag.
