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Market InsightsJUL 217 min read

Velo3D's Forge 1: A SPAC Survivor Opens One of North America's Largest Metal AM Production Campuses

Velo3D's Forge 1 campus opens as a 289,000 sq ft bet that defense demand for qualified metal AM production justifies a SPAC survivor's service-led pivot.

Market InsightsSEP 306 min read

Jiangsu's First-Batch Listing Moves T70X's First-Buyer Risk to the State but Does Not Qualify It

Jiangsu's first-batch listing of Vilory's T70X titanium powder shifts first-buyer risk to the province through tender rules. It does not qualify the alloy.

Market InsightsOCT 96 min read

Farsoon's Placement Cut Funds the Printers and Haircuts the Service Factory

Farsoon cut its STAR Market placement from RMB 3.91B to 2.94B. Printer capacity kept full funding, and the AM services platform absorbed most of the cut.

Market InsightsMAY 317 min read

Creality's US$1.1B Hong Kong IPO Opens the Public Markets for Consumer 3D Printing

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 InsightsAPR 226 min read

Black Buffalo 3D Bankruptcy Reveals Certification's Limits in Construction AM Scaling

Black Buffalo 3D's Chapter 11 filing despite holding the first ICC-ES AC509 structural certification exposes the capital intensity required to scale construction AM.

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.

Market InsightsMAY 166 min read

Anduril's $5B Series H and the Defense-AM Capital Wave: From Experiment to Factory

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 InsightsOCT 66 min read

Ursa Major's $137M Navy Awards Buy Qualification Time, Not Motor Volume

Ursa Major's $137M U.S. Navy solid rocket motor awards fund qualification of its additive Lynx line across two new missiles, not production volume.

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 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 InsightsOCT 126 min read

J&J's Triastek Deal Buys Tablet Geometry, Not Printing Capacity

J&J's license and JJDC stake in Triastek buy 3D-printed tablet design for oral peptides. Regulatory and CMC acceptance, not print speed, now set the pace.

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