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Market InsightsOCT 66 min read

Ursa Major's $137M Navy Awards Buy Qualification Time, Not Motor Volume

Ursa Major's $137M U.S. Navy solid rocket motor awards fund qualification of its additive Lynx line across two new missiles, not production volume.

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.

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.

Market InsightsOCT 126 min read

J&J's Triastek Deal Buys Tablet Geometry, Not Printing Capacity

J&J's license and JJDC stake in Triastek buy 3D-printed tablet design for oral peptides. Regulatory and CMC acceptance, not print speed, now set the pace.

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 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.

Weekly DigestAPR 191 min read

AM Weekly · Week 16: Software & workflow integration adopted to scale production and quality control

The defense procurement gravity of programs like TITAN-AM and AUKUS, targeting titanium supply chains, validates a capital-intensive path for Velo3D and Nikon S

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 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 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

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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