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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.
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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.
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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.
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Keiron's €20.7M Buys an Advanced-Packaging Beachhead, Not a €600 Billion Market
Keiron's €20.7M Series A for LiFT solder paste printing is real, but the €600 billion framing is borrowed. The defensible beachhead is advanced packaging.
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PharmaTher Picked Its Peptides From an FDA Vote, Then Went Shopping for a Printer
PharmaTher's Craft Health deal names the exact peptides an FDA committee backed days earlier. The printer is the visible part; the rulemaking is the real gate.
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In Massivit's India Alliance, the Partner Carries the Capital
Lohia Aerospace will fund the printers, the building and the staff for India's first large-format composite tooling cell. Massivit supplies the technology.
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China's New Metal AM Acceptance Rules Took Effect August 1. BLT Helped Write Them.
Chinese metal AM standards took effect August 1, and BLT co-drafted one of them. The competition is moving from machine specs to acceptance criteria.
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Modovolo Built Its Own Printer Because It Couldn't Buy One. The Graphene Is the Side Story.
Lyten's graphene PA1205 is now the default filament on Modovolo's BFP platform. The unverified strength numbers matter less than why Modovolo built the printer.
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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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The Cheap Missile Isn't the Story. A Printed Airframe at 8,000 a Year Is.
CoAspire's RAACM joins the Air Force FAMM framework beside Anduril and Zone 5. The real test is an additively manufactured airframe at 8,000 units a year.
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Coptic's KRW 10B Pre-IPO Prices Breezm as a Retailer, Not a 3D Printing Company
Coptic's KRW 10 billion pre-IPO for Breezm funds stores, an app and smart glasses, not printers. Custom eyewear here is a retail bet, not an additive one.
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Protolabs' Drone Revenue Compounds Near 40%, and Its 3D Printing Line Still Shrinks
Protolabs says drone-customer revenue compounds near 40% a year, but its 3D printing line keeps shrinking while CNC machining absorbs the demand.
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