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Market InsightsSEP 96 min read

Korea's 5-Meter Printed Propeller Is a Class-Certification Program, Not a Size Record

Korea's KRW 11 billion WAAM propeller program is a class-certification bet aimed at US Navy MRO, not a diameter record. Nothing is certified before 2031.

Market InsightsSEP 36 min read

SUNLU's ChiNext Review Shows Why Consumer 3D Printing Profits Sit in the Storefront

SUNLU's ChiNext review exposes where consumer 3D printing profits sit: filament margins are built on Amazon storefront control, not polymer alone.

Market InsightsAUG 316 min read

SPEE3D Printed at Sea, But the Capability Lives in a Tennessee Armory

SPEE3D made 32 metal parts at RIMPAC 2026, but only eight at sea and 29 needed heat treatment and machining. The capability is the network, not the deck printer.

Market InsightsAUG 274 min read

3D Systems’ SRNL CRADA Builds a Nuclear Qualification Stack, Not an Order

3D Systems and SRNL are building nuclear AM qualification around installed hardware, but no named component, production customer or order has emerged.

Market InsightsAUG 246 min read

PyroGenesis Is Selling the Titanium Cut Laser Powder Bed Can't Use

PyroGenesis signed two coarse-cut titanium powder contracts in five days, both into DED and EBM rather than LPBF. The economics favor the fraction lasers skip.

Market InsightsAUG 216 min read

Formlabs Finished Building a Public-Company Board Before Confirming an IPO

Formlabs rebuilt its board days after a reported US IPO exploration. The governance moves date the listing process more precisely than the Bloomberg report does.

Market InsightsAUG 126 min read

Continuous Composites Turned Its Patent Estate Into a Price Floor for Continuous Fiber

Continuous Composites asserts ten patents against Fibre Seek's $2,699 desktop printer. The binding constraint on cheap continuous fiber is now a licence, not cost.

Market InsightsAUG 96 min read

Elmet Can Print C103 Because It Owns the Atomizer, Not Because It Bought a Printer

Elmet's C103 niobium heat exchanger line for hypersonics is gated by powder chemistry and NASA certification, not printer access. Nothing is qualified yet.

Market InsightsAUG 66 min read

IperionX Is Moving to Texas Because Capital Structure, Not Chemistry, Gates Titanium Powder

IperionX proposes a Texas parent and direct Nasdaq listing weeks after Amaero's own US move. Domicile, not process technology, now gates domestic titanium powder.

Market InsightsAUG 55 min read

Xometry's $229M Quarter Confirms Marketplaces Beat Factory Peers

Xometry's $229.3M Q2 at 41% growth confirms multi-process AI marketplaces are outgrowing owned-capacity peers; AM rides as one process among many.

Market InsightsAUG 56 min read

AE Industrial Bought a Thermal Spray Company. It Also Bought a NASA Superalloy License.

AE Industrial's Powder Alloy deal was covered as thermal spray consolidation. The asset that matters is inert gas atomization and a NASA GRX-810 license.

Market InsightsAUG 56 min read

TE's Printed Catheter Jacket Is a Sensor Play Wearing Manufacturing Clothes

TE Connectivity printed a catheter jacket it says performs no better than the extruded one. The layer-wise shaft wall, not the cost case, is the real asset.

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