3DPrint.com September 12, 2025
In covering additive manufacturing (AM) industry news, I’ve noticed a curious phenomenon whereby people in the industry find it to be a matter of routine for manufacturers to publicly disclose the hardware they’re using to produce the goods they sell. In reality, this is quite a weird thing to be happening: throughout all of history, there has been very little to incentivize manufacturers to be transparent about their production processes, in the same way that all other industries are incentivized against sharing trade secrets.
Probably, the practice of manufacturers providing the general public with insight into their production processes has only started to become somewhat commonplace due to the intersection of a commoditized machine tools industry and our contemporary PR-centric...







