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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.
Funding rounds, deals, factory openings and closures across 3D printing, at public and private companies, with the figures.
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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.
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 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.
What peer-reviewed studies and manufacturer documentation show about materials and processes, with the citations.
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.
A sourced look at how selective laser sintering and HP Multi Jet Fusion actually compare on density, porosity, packing-density warping, mechanical properties, powder reuse, and biocompatibility.
How the main printing processes differ on cost, strength, detail and lead time.
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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.
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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.
The four most common 3D printing technologies offered by online print services, compared on cost, strength, detail, and what each is actually good for.
The history of listed 3D printing companies since the 2022 SPAC crash, quarter by quarter: deals, delistings, bankruptcies and results, each with its sources.
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.
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab willfully infringed four Stratasys patents covering purge towers and force detection, awarding $27.6 million in past damages. A second case is still unscheduled.
In five weeks Stratasys agreed to buy Markforged from Nano Dimension for a little over a third of what Nano paid, Creality opened 80 percent above its Hong Kong offer price, and BigRep announced it was leaving the Frankfurt market.
AI that generates 3D models and printable parts: the releases, the companies behind them and what the output can and cannot do.
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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.
Results, filings, deals and guidance from listed 3D printing companies, as they happen.
3D Systems' healthcare segment hit $48.1 million in Q2 2026, passing industrial's $46.5 million for the first time, while total revenue slipped 0.3% to $94.6 million.
What industrial and professional 3D printers actually cost: list prices, tender awards, reseller and used-market prices, with the date and source of each.
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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.
Material properties pulled from manufacturer datasheets, with the test standard and specimen behind every figure.
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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.
Bambu Lab says 51 MPa, eSun says 34.77 MPa, and both are printed PETG test bars. What to check on a datasheet before comparing two numbers: the standard, the bar, the print direction, the HDT load and the specimen conditions.
Tensile strength, elongation, heat deflection temperature, and print settings for five common FDM materials, pulled directly from manufacturer datasheets.
What ISO 9001, ISO 13485, AS9100 and similar certificates actually audit, and what they do not tell you about a part.
A comparison of the three quality-management certifications you will see on 3D printing provider pages, what each one specifically audits, and what it does not guarantee.