The TCT Awards 2026 finalists have been revealed, with General Motors, NASA, and the Ministry of Defence among the shortlisted companies.
Each year, the TCT Awards celebrate the very best innovations, applications, and collaborations in additive manufacturing, shining a spotlight on the people and technologies driving our industry forward.
These honours matter because they recognise not only technical excellence, but the real‑world impact additive manufacturing and engineering solutions are having across a range of sectors, including healthcare, aerospace and transport.
For the first time, the TCT Awards will be held outside the UK. It will now take place on the evening of April 14 in Boston, during the week of RAPID + TCT (April 13-16, Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA).
Nine awards – five for industry applications and four for technology innovations – will celebrate the most significant advancements in additive manufacturing over the course of the last 12 months. Winners will be recognised during an Awards ceremony that will also celebrate its latest inductee into the TCT Hall of Fame and this year’s winner of the WI3DP Innovator Award – both to be announced in due course.
The full list of this year’s TCT Awards finalists is as follows:
TCT Aerospace & Defence Application Award
Crushable Lattices for Impact Attenuation | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | With REM Surface Engineering & nTop
Project TAMPA | Ministry of Defence | With Thales, NP Aerospace, Babcock & RBSL
Structurally Critical Defence Vehicle Subframe | Digital Manufacturing Centre | With NP Aerospace, MOD, Caracol & Vertex Engineering
TCT Automotive & Rail Application Award
Cadillac CELESTIQ Production Parts | General Motors | With Forecast3D, Azoth LLC & Exo-s
Integrated Passive Cooling | Martinrea International | With Equispheres
Racing Car Production Bodywork | Caracol AM | With Motodromo Castelletto di Branduzzo & Garroni Design
TCT Consumer Product and Creative Application Award
Domino 3.0: Generated Living Structure | Caracol AM | With Kengo Kuma & Associates
Recycled TPU Lattice Foam Cushions | EcoLattice
Gen1.0 Titanium Watch | Apiar | With Apex Additive Technologies & Silvey Engineering
PORTAL - Immersive Furniture | Caracol AM | With Decibel Made
Tactile Braille Storybook | Singapore Institute of Technology | With Tusitala & IC2PrepHouse
TCT Hardware Award – Non-polymer systems
ATO SPARQ | 3D Lab | With Arcway & 3D Lab
Carmel Multi-Material Inkjet System | XJet 3D
LAPIS: Hybrid Metal AM | Lapis | With Nanyang Technological University
M4 ONYX | EOS | With Grenzebach, Volkmann & Siemens
MetalFab 420K | Additive Industries | With Stoke Space
MMJ ProX-Series | AMAREA Technology | With Fraunhofer IKTS & esmo
TCT Hardware Award – Polymer systems
Desktop 5-Axis Printing | Generative Machine Company | Aibuild, Autodesk, Duet3D & Hexaxes
INDX | Bondtech | With PRUSA Research
Neo 800+ | Stratasys
PostPro UP | Additive Manufacturing Technologies
RMS220 | Raise3D
RSPro800 X | UnionTech
TCT Healthcare Application Award
Anvesa Patch | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | With Pandit Deendayal Energy University
AtriCure cryoXT Distal Tip | Penn United Technologies | With Atricure
Eyelid Surgery Training Models | Stratasys | With Addion
Keratoprosthesis - Artificial Cornea Surgery | Singapore National Eye Centre | With Temasek Polytechnic
TALOS Tantalum Orthopedic Implant Platform | Croom Medical | With Global Advanced Metals
Tracheostoma Seal | Department of Veterans Affairs - James A. Haley VA Hospital
TCT Industrial Product Application Award
Ceramic-filled Injection Mold Inserts | Axtra3D | With Forward AM, Becton Dickinson & LSI
Generative Design LNG Vaporizer | EOS| With IKM Flux, Jiskoot Solutions, Valland, Intertec & ToffeeX
Hybrid Fixtures | General Motors
nextGEN Turbine Bade Repairs | additiveStream4D | With Hyphen Innovations, 3T Additive Manufacturing
TCT Materials Award
Cold Spray CP Ti Validated to Handbook Strength | Metal Powder Works | With HAMR Industries
Cu29 All-Metal Conductive Filament | Kupros | With NSWC Crane
EOS NickelAlloy 247 | EOS
Eurofer97 Low-Activation Steel for FUsion Energy | Globus Metal Powders | University of Southampton & University of Warwick
P3 Silicone 25A | Stratasys | With Shin-Etsu
TCT Software Award
CO-AM Brix | Materialise | With Phits Insoles & Nikon SLM Solutions
EOS Fingerprint | EOS
Helm: Fleet Management Software | re:3D | With RPS
Phasio-AMIS Integrated Workflow | AMIS | With Phasio
RREQAM: Rapid Reverse Engineering & Qualification for AM | Authentise | With GKN Aerospace & Boeing
