The money: funding, deals, factory openings and closures, quarterly results, and the certificates buyers are asked to trust.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prodways' Systems division revenue rose to €1.2 million in Q3 2026 from €500,000 a year earlier, driven by MOVINGLight ceramic printers, plus a roughly ten-unit order from an unnamed US aerospace customer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Amaero sold 4,705,883 shares at $4.25 to net $15.7 million on Nasdaq, but the prospectus says cash only lasts into Q2 2027 and a going-concern doubt remains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.