AMPulse Editorial
Ongoing analysis of additive manufacturing, plus the weekly and Asia digests.
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Market InsightsMAY 227 min read
Rocket Lab's 1,000th 3D-printed Rutherford engine proves metal AM can sustain serial production in aerospace propulsion, at ~200 engines/year and 24-hour print.
Market InsightsMAY 197 min read
i3D Manufacturing acquires Burloak Technologies, combining 60+ metal AM systems into one of North America's largest service fleets.
Weekly DigestMAY 171 min read
Three defense contract awards totaling over $90M for jet engine hot-section qualification and uncrewed-platform production, paired with a $150M capital raise.
Market InsightsMAY 166 min read
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 DigestMAY 141 min read
The consumer-desktop sector has crossed into industrial-scale infrastructure, as Creality’s Hong Kong IPO filing, Elegoo’s $70M software-defensive round.
Market InsightsMAY 138 min read
Creality 3D's HKEX hearing reveals RMB 3.127B revenue and a RMB 182M loss as R&D doubled and marketing costs rose 9x to compete with Bambu Lab's software moat.
Weekly DigestMAY 101 min read
Two distinct strategic patterns emerged this week: regulatory lock-in in medical-dental AM and capital-intensive scaling in consumer desktop.
Market InsightsMAY 106 min read
Xometry's $205M Q1 revenue and $50M Siemens investment embed AI-native manufacturing intelligence into Siemens Xcelerator, creating a design-to-source digital thread.
Market InsightsMAY 77 min read
LEAP 71 and Sindan partner to industrialize AI-designed aerospace engines, combining Noyron's computational model with 40+ metal AM systems for serial production.
Market InsightsMAY 46 min read
3D Systems' EU MDR Class IIa certification for its multi-material denture unlocks Europe's market, but lab conversion rates - not regulatory timing - will decide.
Weekly DigestMAY 31 min read
A clear pattern of **defense procurement gravity** is materializing, with the US Air Force awarding a $95.2M production contract to Sintavia and the UK's MTC.
Market InsightsMAY 18 min read
Firestorm Labs raised $82M for its containerized xCell platform that prints drones at the tactical edge.
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