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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.

Asia DigestMAY 317 min read

Asia 3D Printing Roundup, May 18 - May 31, 2026

Creality (HKEX: 3388) raises about HK$1.27 billion in a 3,829x oversubscribed Hong Kong IPO; HeyGears lands a $44M Series C; Shenzhen Gongda Laser closes a Series C for green-laser metal AM; and Korean defense AM advances toward serial production.

Asia DigestJUL 21 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 14: Bambu Lab hits 1M domestic sales, acquires $195M Shenzhen land for 3M-unit/year factory

Bambu Lab’s verifiable 1 million unit sales milestone and ¥1.41 billion land acquisition for a 3 million unit per year factory, alongside Yuding’s STAR Market.

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.

Weekly DigestJUN 71 min read

AM Weekly · Week 23: Aerospace and defense programs adopt structural and propulsion additive manufacturing

The vertical integration of additive manufacturing into aerospace propulsion and structural programs is accelerating as prime contractors and government agencies.

Asia DigestJUN 41 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 12: Creality completes 1.27 billion HKD IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Creality’s 1.27 billion HKD debut on the HKEX establishes a public-market benchmark for the high-volume desktop segment, advancing the capital-market maturation.

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.

Weekly DigestMAY 171 min read

AM Weekly · Week 20: US defense AM transitions from experimentation to funded production infrastructure

Three defense contract awards totaling over $90M for jet engine hot-section qualification and uncrewed-platform production, paired with a $150M capital raise.

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.

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