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Market InsightsAPR 125 min read

L3Harris Cuts Satellite Thruster Lead Times by 12 Months with Niobium LPBF

L3Harris Technologies has achieved up to a 12-month reduction in satellite thruster production lead times using laser powder bed fusion with niobium, cutting manufacturing from 18 months to as little as 6 months for national security space missions.

Market InsightsJUN 109 min read

Formlabs Fuse X1: The $85K Industrial SLS System That Changes the Polymer AM Cost Curve

Formlabs' $84,999 Fuse X1 targets the $200K+ industrial SLS segment with 3x throughput claims and early Tesla validation.

Market InsightsAUG 56 min read

Walter Reed's Cranial Plate Clearance Moves the Quality System Inside the Hospital

The FDA cleared a titanium cranial implant made by a hospital, not a device company. The novelty is who holds the quality system, not the printer.

Market InsightsJAN 266 min read

The 'Megastructure' Breakout: Aerospace AM Claims the Primary Airframe

Airbus begins serial integration of 7-meter w-DED titanium parts on the A350, building on a decade of wire-AM aerospace precedent set by Norsk Titanium.

Market InsightsMAY 106 min read

Xometry Hits $205M Record Revenue, Lands $50M Siemens Investment for AI Manufacturing Integration

Xometry's $205M Q1 revenue and $50M Siemens investment embed AI-native manufacturing intelligence into Siemens Xcelerator, creating a design-to-source digital thread.

Market InsightsFEB 201 min read

The Foundry Monopoly: ExOne and Voxeljet Consolidation Ends the 'Binder Wars'

Anzu Partners has unified the two largest sand binder jetting OEMs under one roof. This marks the transition of digital casting from a competitive technology market to a private equity-backed industrial utility.

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 InsightsMAR 206 min read

The Digital Foundry: Nikon and Sintavia Accelerate the End of Legacy Castings

A strategic DIU contract for Nikon AM Synergy and Sintavia's 11-fold simulation speedup signal that the Digital Foundry-serial AM replacing legacy castings-is now operational for flight-critical hardware.

Market InsightsMAR 317 min read

The Rise of the Merchant Digital Foundry: Large-Format DED Enters Serial Production

A 50,000 sq ft WAAM facility in Houston, $11.7M in Navy contracts, and a crack-free aluminum alloy from UCL mark the week Large-Format DED crossed from bespoke demonstration to certified serial production.

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 InsightsJUL 317 min read

3DEO's $80M Flameout: What the Metal AM Service Bureau's Collapse Says About Real Economics

3DEO raised $80M and now sells its Intelligent Layering IP for $3.4M. The metal AM service bureau's collapse signals a structural shakeout in production economics.

Market InsightsAUG 55 min read

GKN's GTF Repair Award Puts Additive Deposition on a Maintenance Plan, Not a Demo Bench

GKN Aerospace's five-to-10-year Pratt & Whitney GTF repair award moves additive DED repair from qualification demo into contracted aftermarket capacity.

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