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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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Freemelt wins SEK 28 million tungsten order from European Spallation Source
Swedish metal printer maker Freemelt will produce and deliver 7,000 tungsten-based components for ESS's target wheel, a SEK 28 million ($2.8m) order running 14 months.
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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.
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.
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China Yangtze Power awards 15.8 million yuan contract for in-situ AM turbine seal ring repair
China Yangtze Power has awarded Dongfang Electric Machinery a reported 15.8 million yuan (about $2.36 million) contract to develop in-situ additive repair for turbine seal rings up to 10.9 meters across at Three Gorges.
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Nikon AM to deploy two-metre Z-height metal printers for Tomahawk mid-bodies
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing has won a Department of War contract to deploy multiple two-metre Z-height NXG-E laser powder bed fusion systems for Tomahawk Land Attack Missile mid-body production.
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Roboze raises $10 million from Rialto Ventures and Club degli Investitori for US push
Roboze closed a $10 million round led by existing backer Rialto Ventures and Club degli Investitori to fund US hiring and new materials like ceramic matrix composites.
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Carbon passes 1 million DLS-printed bike saddles across 11 brands
Carbon says its Digital Light Synthesis process has now made over 1 million bike saddles for 11 brands, including the saddle Tadej Pogačar rode to his 2026 Tour de France win.
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3D Systems opens 50,000-sq-ft Littleton, Colorado facility for aerospace and defense
3D Systems has inaugurated a 50,000-sq-ft Industrial Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado, adding domestic additive capacity for aerospace, defense and semiconductor customers.
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Ursa Major wins $137 million in Navy deals for additive solid rocket motors
Ursa Major picked up $137 million in two Navy contracts to develop and qualify tactical solid rocket motors for the CAAM and NMM missile programs, using its Lynx additive manufacturing approach.
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.
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Stärke-AMG and Flinders University lead $2.7m onshore metal AM project
Stärke Advanced Manufacturing Group and Flinders University will spend $2.7 million over four years, running three Renishaw AM400 systems, to qualify metal 3D printing for Australian defense, maritime and medical parts.
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PTAB finds claims in four Stratasys patents unpatentable after $27.6 million Bambu verdict
The PTAB ruled claims in four Stratasys patents unpatentable, two weeks after a Texas jury ordered Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6 million for infringing them.
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ICON raises $200 million Series D to build Titan robots for other builders
ICON closed a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock to begin manufacturing Titan, its multi-story construction robot, at its Austin factory for sale to outside builders.
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USS Pasadena 3D prints $1,000 watertight enclosure, replacing $200,000 submarine alteration
Sailors aboard USS Pasadena printed a watertight enclosure for under $1,000 on a Formlabs Form 4L, replacing a $200,000 Fiber Optic Penetrator alteration to run an ROV through a flooded torpedo tube.
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Think Metal raises Rs 27 crore to scale metal filament 3D printing platform
Chennai-based Think Metal closed a Rs 27 crore round led by IAN Alpha Fund to move its SistemT1 metal filament platform from enterprise pilots to commercial production.
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Plane Support wins CASA approval for 3D printed Bell 214B helicopter duct
Plane Support has secured Australian CASA approval to 3D print cabin air-conditioning ducting for the Bell 214B after a nearly two-year project with operator McDermott Aviation.
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America Makes funds $12.4 million MIAMI project to certify metal 3D-printed parts
America Makes and NCDMM awarded $12.4 million to teams led by Northrop Grumman and Fastech to validate metal AM parts as drop-in replacements for legacy alloys in DoD weapon systems.
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Jingye signs $700 million deal for 400-printer metal 3D printing factory in China
Jingye Future Smart Manufacturing will build a RMB 5 billion ($700 million) base in Fengshun County with 400 metal 3D printers, 20 powder lines and 100 MIM lines for smartphone hinges and camera modules.
ASTRO America signs $9 million CRADA with Northrop Grumman to speed up munitions manufacturing
ASTRO America, Northrop Grumman, FSU InSPIRE and AFRL's Air Warfare Directorate signed a nearly $9 million CRADA to cut cost and time on subsonic munitions, using the Gray Wolf missile as the test case.
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California sues Polymaker over filament marketing to gun community
San Diego County sued Polymaker on October 5, 2026, arguing its marketing to the 3D-printed gun community turns PLA filament into a regulated "firearm precursor part."
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Sneakprint sells foot-fitted flip-flop STL files for €64.99
Munich's Sneakprint launched ShoeFactory today, selling an STL file of a flip-flop scanned to an individual's feet for €64.99, with printing left entirely to the buyer.
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NMSU students design 5-size seal to replace 200 part numbers for Holloman Air Force Base
New Mexico State University's Aggie Innovation Shop consolidated over 200 legacy OMNI seal part numbers into a five-size concept for the Air Force's 49th Wing, and the two sides are now expanding into a standing engineering pipeline.
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Print&Live and iSCALE 3D's airless UGV wheels log 361 km in combat trials at €680 a set
Ukrainian makers Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D move 3D printed airless UGV wheels into small-batch combat production after a TARGAN 3K unit ran 361 km through winter missions, moving 1,825 kg of cargo.
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Graphy signs $1.3 million dental resin deal with MegaGen
Seoul-based Graphy signed a KRW 2 billion ($1.3m) initial supply agreement with MegaGen Implant to deliver its ceramic-filled Tera Harz E-Namel resin plus printers and curing equipment.
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BlueSky Polymers, Insight Polymers and ALM bring xPEI to SLS printing, no mechanical numbers published yet
BlueSky Polymers, Insight Polymers and ALM announced xPEI, a reactive polyetherimide powder for SLS based on Sabic's Ultem backbone, now in multi-kg production, but released no tensile, heat-deflection or price figures.
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String Cubed opens Regulation CF raise with $500 minimum for vapor-cooled 3D printing
String Cubed, which says it holds the only granted US patent in matter-to-matter computing, opened a Regulation CF raise at a $500 minimum to scale a vapor-cooled filament process it claims has already produced eight functional materials.
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MX3D becomes first WAAM facility to hold DNV's AMC3 certification
Amsterdam's MX3D is the first wire arc additive manufacturing facility worldwide certified at DNV's strictest Additive Manufacturing Criticality level, AMC3, under standard DNV-ST-B203.
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Mimir closes acquisition of Sandvik's Osprey metal powder business
Mimir closed its purchase of Sandvik's Osprey metal powder unit on October 1, spinning off a business with over 2,000 powder grades and plants in Neath, Wales and Sandviken, Sweden into an independent company.
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IOT and VisionLab sell first volumetric 3D printed progressive lenses, cutting energy use 90%
Spain's IOT and retailer VisionLab launched the first commercial progressive lenses made with volumetric 3D printing on October 6, 2026, claiming 90% lower energy use and 76% less waste than ground lenses.
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Amsight leads 12-month ESA project to digitize qualification of 3D-printed space parts
Amsight will lead DIQAM, a 12-month ESA FIRST! project with ArianeGroup, APWORKS, InSpacePropulsion and Fraunhofer IAPT, building a digital file to cut redundant testing on additively manufactured space hardware.
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MB Therapeutics becomes first authorized maker of 3D-printed drug cartridges in France
France's ANSM has granted MB Therapeutics pharmaceutical establishment authorization to manufacture semi-solid cartridges for 3D-printed oral medicines, the first such status issued anywhere.
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Bambu Lab runs 24-brief assistive device contest with 618 winners on MakerWorld
Bambu Lab and seven accessibility nonprofits launched a MakerWorld design contest covering 24 real assistive-device briefs, closing November 15 with 618 winners and 24 A1 Combo printers as grand prizes.
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Titomic wins $5 million USAF cold spray contract as VulcanForms teams with Specter Aerospace on hypersonics
Titomic USA secures a $5 million U.S. Air Force contract to install a TKF 1000 cold spray system at Tinker Air Force Base, while VulcanForms partners with Specter Aerospace to scale airbreathing hypersonic weapons manufacturing.
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Revo Foods raises €2 million, targets Q3 2027 profitability on six printers
Revo Foods has secured €1 million of a €2 million round to add printers that each cost about €25,000 and pay back in under two months.
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6K Additive secures $27.4 million EXIM loan for Pennsylvania expansion
6K Additive signed a $27.4 million secured loan with the US Export-Import Bank to fund four new buildings and equipment at its Burgettstown, Pennsylvania powder plant.
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Mencast Marine's WAAM propeller gets dual class certification from Lloyd's and ABS
Singapore's Mencast Marine wins Lloyd's Register and ABS certification for what it calls the first fully additively manufactured propeller, cutting production time in half.
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6K Additive signs $10.8M Nickel 718 powder deal with ADDMAN, adds revert buy-back
6K Additive and ADDMAN signed a 30-month Nickel 718 powder supply contract worth up to $10.8m, with $8.1m guaranteed and a revert buy-back program built in.
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Protolabs robotics revenue more than doubled in H1 2026
Protolabs says revenue from robotics customers grew more than 100 percent in H1 2026 versus H1 2025, citing prototyping and low-volume production demand from robot makers.
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Cranfield 3D-prints natural rubber gloves, skips the dipping line entirely
Cranfield University's 3D-PEP machine sprays natural rubber latex onto a mould and vulcanises it in place, replacing the multi-bath dipping lines glove factories run today.
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EPO Board of Appeal upholds Carbon's dual-cure patent EP 3158400
A European Patent Office Board of Appeal dismissed a rival's challenge to Carbon's EP 3158400 on September 24, 2026, keeping claim 1 intact and reinstating dependent claims stripped in 2025.
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Nike puts 3D printed vortex generators on a one-of-one suit for Keely Hodgkinson
Nike unveiled a one-of-one speed suit on September 18, 2026 with 3D printed, color-shifting delta vortex generators tuned to Keely Hodgkinson's body to cut 800m drag.
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Addireen opens Ganzhou plant with capacity for 50 copper AM systems a month
Addireen has opened a facility in Ganzhou, China, built to assemble up to 50 green-laser metal AM systems a month, moving its copper printer line from prototype to series production.
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Snapmaker opens Space beta with 2,500 multicolor models for the U1
Snapmaker launched the open beta of Space on September 21 with over 2,500 multicolor and multimaterial models carrying ready-made print profiles for its U1 toolchanger printer.
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Radian Forge closes $2.5 million Series Seed round for naval WAAM production
Virginia's Radian Forge raised a $2.5 million Series Seed Preferred round led by Veteran Ventures Capital to scale wire arc additive manufacturing for naval and maritime parts.
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IMTS 2026 draws 90,000 attendees, AM booths sit next to metal removal for the first time
IMTS 2026 in Chicago drew over 90,000 attendees across 1.17 million square feet; EOS printed 180 drone parts in just over 12 hours for a DoW challenge.
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Bambu Lab's Shenzhen factory clears green space for construction access
A Guangming District notice dated September 18 shows Bambu Lab subsidiary Shenzhen Zhuhe Technology applying to build a temporary construction entrance for its planned 3-million-unit-per-year factory.
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Amaero files for $52.6 million Nasdaq IPO under ticker AMRO
Amaero Inc filed with the SEC for a Nasdaq listing under ticker AMRO, offering 7,456,500 shares at an assumed $7.06 each, a $52.6 million gross raise.
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ORNL prints a 6-foot, nearly 2-ton steel stamp die for Boeing in eight weeks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory printed a two-alloy Stamp Form Die for Boeing composite work using wire-arc deposition, hitting shape within a few millimeters after 32 simulation iterations.
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Bambu Lab loses $27.6M patent verdict to Stratasys, launches laser engraver days later
A Texas jury ordered Bambu Lab to pay Stratasys $27.6 million for willful infringement of four FDM patents on September 17, 2026. Five days later Bambu launched the R1, a $2,499 CO2 laser engraver.