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Market InsightsSEP 274 min read

Mitsubishi Electric’s AZ1200 Makes Integration the Contest in Japan’s Wire-Fed AM Market

Mitsubishi Electric’s AZ1200 and DAIHEN’s ArcBuilder 3D sharpen Japan’s wire-fed metal AM contest around integration, qualification, and finishing.

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 InsightsFEB 131 min read

The Volume Barrier Breaks: Apple’s Multi-Laser Gamble Redefines Serial Production

Apple’s full transition to 3D-printed titanium for the Watch Series 11 confirms Multi-Laser PBF, not Binder Jetting, as the winner for consumer electronics scale.

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 InsightsSEP 157 min read

Argive's Seven-Month Turbojet Runs on an Alloy It Owns, Not Printers It Bought

Alloyed's Argive has a 300N turbojet in UK serial production and a 1,100N design flight-ready in seven months. The alloy it owns, not printers, set that clock.

Market InsightsJAN 105 min read

The 'Barbell' Effect: Sub-$50k Metal Systems and the Hollow Middle of Manufacturing

While defense primes consolidate, a counter-insurgency of sub-$40k metal systems from Mastrex and CADmore is enabling decentralized industrial production, squeezing the traditional service bureau model.

Market InsightsJAN 201 min read

The 'Monolithic' Imperative: Support-Free Physics and the End of the Assembly Line

A breakthrough in support-free closed vessels by Innospace, combined with Falcontech's 1.3-meter expansion, signals the end of the 'welded assembly' era in aerospace.

Market InsightsAPR 235 min read

Bambu Lab's Four-Year X1 Cycle Resets Consumer 3D Printing Expectations

Bambu Lab ends X1 series production after four years, launching the $649 dual-nozzle X2D.

Market InsightsJAN 155 min read

The 'Bio-Active' Shift: Regenerative Manufacturing Eclipses the Inert Implant

A cluster of clinical milestones on January 15 signals the transition of Medical AM from structural titanium replacements to resorbable, regenerative scaffolds. The era of 'permanent hardware' is ending.

Market InsightsSEP 126 min read

Impossible Objects' $40M Is Priced on an Army Drone Line, Not on Five Printer Orders

Impossible Objects raised $40 million on five disclosed CBAM 25 orders. The underwriting is an Army drone-body line at Rock Island Arsenal, not printer demand.

Market InsightsMAR 276 min read

The 7-Day Rocket Engine: How Agnikul Cosmos Rewrites the Propulsion Playbook

Agnikul Cosmos test-fires a one-meter, single-piece Inconel rocket engine produced in seven days-a 97% lead-time reduction-while The Exploration Company licenses LEAP 71's Noyron model for code-first propulsion design.

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.

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