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RAPID + TCT 2025

On April 8-10, 2025, RAPID + TCT roared into the Motor City! The three-day event featured the latest in 3D printing technology from the industry’s leading product and service providers, a full schedule of speakers including the returning Executive Perspectives Keynote Series, and over 125 hours of educational content. The expansive show floor showcased over 500 exhibiting companies’ latest advancements. Start planning your trip to Boston to experience North America’s largest additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing event in April, 2026!

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Find out what RAPID + TCT is all about. Discover the features that make this a can’t-miss event for those interested in the next generation of manufacturing. Learn why Detroit was a prime location for innovation meeting industry. And uncover why SME and The TCT Group have been the trusted home for additive manufacturing for 35 years.

Event Features

Technology

Exhibits

See 400+ Additive Manufacturing solutions providers, showcasing the latest 3D technologies and applications in hands-on exhibits. Find everything you need to know about the latest 3D technologies, all under one roof, and learn real-world additive manufacturing solutions from the industry’s most respected experts. Get ahead of the competition with the technologies, products, and services that will impact your bottom line.

Colocation Event Feature at RAPID

Colocation. Community. Collaboration.

RAPID + TCT. AeroDef Manufacturing. WCX. TRX. This collection of events, all colocated under one roof with RAPID + TCT at Huntington Place in Detroit, America’s Motor City and home to U.S. manufacturing, was one of the most dynamic collection of minds in additive manufacturing to date.
Conference

Conference

This year the RAPID + TCT Conference features more than more than 140+ technical presentations by hand-selected industry-leading experts. The conference is known worldwide as North America’s most influential additive manufacturing conference. Discover how industry leaders are implementing additive manufacturing and review case studies on how the technology is transforming traditional manufacturing.

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The Rapid + TCT Experience

400

Technology Innovators

200

Expert Speakers

140

Conference Presentations

Event and Industry News

  • Additively manufactured aerospace parts on display at RAPID + TCT 2024.
    June 30, 2025

    Additive Manufacturing Applications: Industrial Examples

    Additive manufacturing applications are growing in the industrial sector, with several examples of 3D printed parts used in different manufacturing industries. Though this technology was once primarily used for rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing is now implemented throughout the production cycle.
  • A 3D printer creating ice.
    June 26, 2025

    3D Printing on Ice!

    Recently researchers have developed a technique for 3D printing ice. This ice is reinforced with natural fibers, allowing users to create sustainable structures out of this material that are easy to build and break down.
  • A 3D printer with multiple different 3D printed objects around it.
    May 28, 2025

    3D Printing Goes Ape

    Additive manufacturing is making strides in a surprising area – animal healthcare. A collaboration between Clarkson College’s 3D Printing and Training Center in Nebraska and Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is introducing 3D printed products into the zoo to assist with animal health.
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