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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 InsightsAPR 234 min read

CGBio's FDA Clearance Opens US Market for Korean Medical AM

CGBio's April 9, 2026 FDA 510(k) clearance for EASYMADE TI makes it the first Korean company to enter the US cranial implant market with LPBF titanium.

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.

Market InsightsJUL 247 min read

Beehive Industries' $70M Ohio Bet: How 3D-Printed Jet Engines Are Entering Full-Rate Production

Beehive Industries' $70M Ohio expansion and 50-printer EOS fleet target 8,000+ 3D-printed Frenzy jet engines per year - but flight qualification remains the open.

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 InsightsJAN 134 min read

The 'Orbital Breakout': Manufacturing Escapes the Fairing Limit

Simultaneous milestones from CAS Space and Dcubed on January 14 signal the transition of space AM from internal experiments to external infrastructure fabrication.

Market InsightsJAN 114 min read

The 'Federated' Arsenal: Defense Standardization Breaks the AM Silo

A $32.6M DoD contract for Velo3D and a US-UK interoperability push mark the end of 'boutique' defense AM. The focus shifts from hardware capability to supply chain interchangeability.

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 InsightsFEB 101 min read

The Great Capital Rotation: Digital Foundries Rise as Hardware Models Stumble

A $575M write-down by Nikon and $344M in fresh funding for VulcanForms and Machina Labs marks a definitive shift: investors are fleeing 'box sellers' to back vertically integrated digital factories.

Market InsightsMAR 147 min read

The $2.5 Billion Week: Physical AI Crosses the Capital Threshold for Industrial AM

$1.03B for AMI's seed round, $450M for Roda AI, $1B for Krafton-Hanwha: $2.5 billion in a single week signals that Physical AI-intelligence that understands gravity and thermal dynamics-has arrived.

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 InsightsJAN 235 min read

The 'Hybrid' Absolution: AM Becomes a Feature of the Machine Shop

A synchronized shift by Hadrian and Sheffield Forgemasters signals the end of the standalone 'AM Shop.' Additive is being absorbed into the CNC workflow as a lead-time accelerator.

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