RAPID + TCT - North America's Additive Manufacturing and Industrial 3D Printing Event

Key facts

Attendance 2025

10 000

Exhibitors

500

Floor space

—

Admission

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Frequency

Annual

Editions

1 (2026)

Attendance and exhibitor figures for 2025 are the organizer's own and are not independently audited. They may include co-located or joint exhibitions.

RAPID + TCT - North America's Additive Manufacturing and Industrial 3D Printing Event is an annual trade fair in Boston covering additive manufacturing, medical additives and metal additives. The most recent edition on record ran 14–16 April 2026 at Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center; no future date has been announced. The 2025 edition reported 10,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors, a figure published by the organiser and not independently audited. Organised by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) / Rapid News Publications.

What is exhibited

• 3D Imaging
• 3D Scanning
• Additive Manufacturing
• Casting
• Design
• Materials
• Medical Additives
• Metal Additives
• Molding
• Peripheral Technologies
• Plastic Additives
• Quality Assurance
• Rapid Prototyping
• Services
• Software
• Tooling

J-messe subject tags

JETRO's own classification, kept verbatim. Fairs carry several; the sector in the sidebar is the single one this site browses by.

• Chemicals & Plastics
• Minerals, Glass & Ceramics
• Testing & Measurement
• Manufacturing & Engineering
• Advanced Materials
• Metals, Hardware & Tools

Editions on record

Every dated instance of this fair the database holds. A series keeps one identity across renames and moves; each row below is one edition of it.

Where this came from

Field-level provenance for the most recent edition: what each fact came from, how far it is trusted, and when it was last checked.