AML3D wins A$2.2 million ARCEMY X order from Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Marine Systems ordered an ARCEMY X wire-arc metal printer from AML3D for A$2.2 million ($1.54m), its first deal with the Australian firm.
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All guides →Jiuquan plans a $500m plant with 100 printers and 6,300 tonnes of metal powder a year
Jiuquan City has tendered a 3 billion yuan ($500m) EPC contract for a plant with 18 PREP powder units making 6,300 tonnes a year and 100 printers making 500 tonnes of parts.
FDM holes print about 0.25 mm undersized in the one test that discloses its method
CNC Kitchen measured FDM holes 0.25 mm undersized with a disclosed method. SLS, MJF and SLA numbers in circulation are mostly vendor design-guide claims.
Meshy 7 review shows AI 3D generation outpacing reviewers, not just printers
VoxelMatters tested Meshy 7 on real parts, from a Lamborghini to a broken wall hook, and the company shipped Meshy 7.1's Ultra 4K mode mid-review, before the first round of tests was even finished.
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UC Berkeley's OpenCAL volumetric printer forms parts in 90 seconds for $1,638
UC Berkeley's open-source OpenCAL printer cures a whole object at once in a spinning resin vial, with Formlabs making the resin and Prusa selling it for $119.99 a liter.
Formlabs Form 4 and Form 4L cost 6.6x to 18x what Creality's Halot-Mage does, depending which Formlabs bundle you compare
Formlabs' cheapest Form 4 Basic Package runs $2,625, about 6.6x Creality's $399 HALOT-MAGE; its Form 4L Basic Package at $7,125 is 18x the same Halot-Mage. Formlabs has quoted the Form 4L at four different prices, $9,999, $8,904, $19,769 and $19,999, and we could only confirm the bundle contents behind two of them.
ValCUN's Remus printhead brings aluminum MMD to robotic arms and gantries
ValCUN's Remus printhead adds a plasma source ahead of the nozzle to preheat and deoxidize surfaces, letting the Belgian firm's aluminum MMD process scale past its 125mm Minerva build plate.
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All materials →Researchers model cement paste flow at the particle scale to explain 3D printability
Northwestern and University of Alabama researchers built a multiscale model, from atomic-scale cement surfaces to particle beads, to explain why fresh cement paste thins under shear instead of breaking apart.
4.2 mm in CAD keeps 90% of an M3 insert's pull-out strength, CNC Kitchen finds
CNC Kitchen pulled nearly 50 M3 inserts out of PLA across a 3.6-4.6 mm hole sweep. 4.2 mm in CAD holds about 90% of the roughly 1,400 N peak.
PETG from eight brands, compared datasheet by datasheet
Prusament, Polymaker, Bambu Lab, eSun, Overture, Sunlu, Extrudr and Fiberlogy PETG side by side: tensile and heat figures, print settings and prices, with the test conditions that decide which numbers can share a column.
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All business →Industrial 3D printer revenue jumps 40% as desktop growth cools, CONTEXT data shows
CONTEXT's Q2 2026 figures show overall hardware revenue up 31% year-on-year, with industrial printers up 40% on aerospace and defense orders while China's desktop exports hit 3.9 million units and Creality issued a profit warning.
Stratasys CEO says Markforged deal cost a third of what Nano Dimension paid
Stratasys CEO Yoav Zeif says the pending Markforged acquisition cost roughly a third of what Nano Dimension paid for it a year earlier, as Stratasys narrows its bet to FDM, PolyJet, SLA and Origin DLP.
Global AM market hit $4.5 billion in Q2 2026, up 12% year over year
AM Research put the total additive manufacturing market at $4.5 billion in Q2 2026, up 12% from Q2 2025, with metal growing faster than polymer and services now a large share of both segments.
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IMDEA and UPM 3D print braided nitinol stents in a single step, hit 50% compression with 90% recovery
IMDEA Materials and UPM printed braided nitinol structures in one step that compress to 50% of diameter with over 90% elastic recovery, for transcatheter devices.
3Descu lets engineers get 3D printing quotes inside ChatGPT and Claude
Romanian manufacturer 3Descu launched an MCP server on October 18, 2026, letting ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and VS Code pull live production quotes from its pricing engine.
MOSS robot's 3D-printed origami wheels cut cost of transport by 29%
MOSS, a Cornell/Imperial College amphibious robot, morphs 3D-printed origami wheels in 1.95 seconds, cutting cost of transport by up to 29% in wet terrain.