Würth Additive Group & B9Creations Partner to Accelerate Production-Scale 3D Printing

At the 2026 Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference in Reno, Nevada, a significant partnership was announced that could accelerate the industrial adoption of 3D printing for spare parts production.

Bridging the Quality Gap

B9Creations has officially partnered with Würth Additive Group (WAG) to combine production-grade manufacturing technology with Würth's Digital Inventory Services (DIS) platform. The collaboration aims to address one of the biggest barriers to AM adoption: the inability to guarantee consistent quality across different printing locations.

These recipes need to be produced consistently at any location, explained Mikhail Gladkikh, Head of Product and Partnerships at WAG. That's why you need equipment that can be reliable, that can execute the recipe, built with the equipment consistently, with quality and traceability.

From Physical Stockpiling to Digital Distribution

The partnership enables manufacturers to transition from physically stockpiling spare parts to global, on-demand production. B9Creations brings production-scale quality assurance and quality control toolsets, including factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, and fleet monitoring. Their intellectual property around printer tuning ensures multiple printers in multiple locations can produce identical parts.

B9Creations has intellectual property around how we tune all of our printers to perform the same at the factory, explained B9Creations CEO Shon Anderson. That enables you to have multiple printers in multiple places and get the same parts.

Secure Digital Recipe Delivery

The system uses Würth's secure red boxes with encrypted connections to deliver print jobs. Once the print is complete, the job is automatically deleted from the printer's memory, protecting the intellectual property of the part designer.

This is the maturity that additive manufacturing needs to reach the level of traditional manufacturing systems, added Gladkikh. This is what's required to get to production-scale.

B9Creations joins other DIS partners including HP, Raise3D, Kurtz Ersa, and Bambu Lab in Würth's hardware-agnostic platform.