AMPulse Editorial
Long-form analysis of additive manufacturing markets, plus the weekly and Asia digests that track what moved.
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Market InsightsJUN 167 min read
SSAB launched Armox 500 AM Powder, the world's first armor-grade LPBF steel powder, matching 40 years of ballistic heritage with geometry-driven designs.
Market InsightsJUN 136 min read
TDK's $400M acquisition of Fabric8Labs is the largest AM startup exit by a non-AM industrial buyer - a bet on electrochemical copper printing for AI data center.
Market InsightsJUN 109 min read
Formlabs' $84,999 Fuse X1 targets the $200K+ industrial SLS segment with 3x throughput claims and early Tesla validation.
Market InsightsJUN 76 min read
Norsk Titanium's Airbus CRA and Northrop Grumman contract validate wire-DED for fatigue-critical structure, but the research agreement carries no volume guarantees.
Market InsightsJUN 16 min read
Sandvik exits AM with a SEK 230M impairment, selling its Osprey powder business to PE firm Mimir.
Market InsightsMAY 317 min read
Creality 3D's landmark HKEX IPO establishes the first public valuation benchmark for consumer desktop 3D printing, raising over US$160M in a heavily oversubscribed.
Market InsightsMAY 287 min read
Stratasys buys Markforged from Nano Dimension for $42.5M all-cash - a $73.5M loss for the seller but a strategic bet on continuous carbon fiber and aerospace polymer.
Market InsightsMAY 227 min read
Rocket Lab's 1,000th 3D-printed Rutherford engine proves metal AM can sustain serial production in aerospace propulsion, at ~200 engines/year and 24-hour print.
Market InsightsMAY 197 min read
i3D Manufacturing acquires Burloak Technologies, combining 60+ metal AM systems into one of North America's largest service fleets.
Market InsightsMAY 166 min read
Three contracts, one budget, and $5.1B in private capital landed in the same week. The Pentagon is no longer experimenting with AM - it is building factories.
Market InsightsMAY 138 min read
Creality 3D's HKEX hearing reveals RMB 3.127B revenue and a RMB 182M loss as R&D doubled and marketing costs rose 9x to compete with Bambu Lab's software moat.
Market InsightsMAY 106 min read
Xometry's $205M Q1 revenue and $50M Siemens investment embed AI-native manufacturing intelligence into Siemens Xcelerator, creating a design-to-source digital thread.
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