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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 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 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 InsightsMAR 247 min read

Apple's AM Gambit: The Pivot to Mass-Market Aluminum Additive Manufacturing

Apple is preparing to 3D-print iPhone chassis using aluminum Binder Jetting by 2027-the most significant shift in consumer electronics manufacturing since the unibody aluminum design of 2008.

Market InsightsMAR 145 min read

From Lab to Orbit: LEAP 71 and HBD Scale Monolithic Aerospikes to 200kN

A one-meter, 200kN aerospike engine printed as a single piece in Inconel 718 and designed entirely by software. LEAP 71 and HBD's XRA-2E5 moves computational propulsion from lab curiosity to orbital-class hardware.

Weekly DigestJUN 211 min read

AM Weekly · Week 25: Defense-Driven Metal AM Production Capacity Expands Across Multiple Verticals

The vertical integration pattern is visible as Beehive Industries commits $50 million for 30 EOS M4 Onyx machines to internalize drone engine production.

Asia DigestMAY 141 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 10: BLT reports 40% revenue growth for 2025 amid 52% export surge

The consumer-desktop sector has crossed into industrial-scale infrastructure, as Creality’s Hong Kong IPO filing, Elegoo’s $70M software-defensive round.

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.

Weekly DigestAUG 91 min read

AM Weekly · Week 32: Defense AM Qualification Programs Expanded Across LPBF and DED

Vertical integration into qualification infrastructure is accelerating as America Makes commits $19.5M across Delta Qual 2.0 and JAQS-SQ to lower the switching cost.

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.

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