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Market InsightsMAR 276 min read

The 7-Day Rocket Engine: How Agnikul Cosmos Rewrites the Propulsion Playbook

Agnikul Cosmos test-fires a one-meter, single-piece Inconel rocket engine produced in seven days-a 97% lead-time reduction-while The Exploration Company licenses LEAP 71's Noyron model for code-first propulsion design.

Market InsightsSEP 96 min read

Korea's 5-Meter Printed Propeller Is a Class-Certification Program, Not a Size Record

Korea's KRW 11 billion WAAM propeller program is a class-certification bet aimed at US Navy MRO, not a diameter record. Nothing is certified before 2031.

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 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.

Weekly DigestJUL 121 min read

AM Weekly · Week 28: Defense-driven AM production wave reaches scale with several large system orders

Two multi-system defense orders in July 2026, a 30,000-ton Chinese filament expansion, and EOS pairing with Constellium for qualified aluminium alloys together.

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.

Asia DigestJUL 171 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 15: Polymer (Jufu Technology) invests 100 million yuan to add 30,000 tons of 3D printing materials capacity, the largest single polymer filament capacity expansion disclosed in 2026

Jufu Technology’s 100 million yuan commitment to add 30,000 tons of polymer filament capacity represents a capital intensity play that may compress pricing.

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