Sandvik exits AM with a SEK 230M impairment, selling its Osprey powder business to PE firm Mimir.
Sandvik exits AM with a SEK 230M impairment, selling its Osprey powder business to PE firm Mimir.
Sandvik exits AM with a SEK 230M impairment, selling its Osprey powder business to PE firm Mimir.
Defense industrial sector scaling of AM serial production represents a capital intensity pattern, as industrial players and defense OEMs transition from experimental.
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.
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.
Stratasys buys Markforged from Nano Dimension for $42.5M all-cash — a $73.5M loss for the seller but a strategic bet on continuous carbon fiber and aerospace polymer.
Aerospace and defense production milestones this week illustrate low-end disruption, as serial manufacturing of drone airframes, the 1,000th unit of a 3D-printed.
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.
i3D Manufacturing acquires Burloak Technologies, combining 60+ metal AM systems into one of North America's largest service fleets.
Three defense contract awards totaling over $90M for jet engine hot-section qualification and uncrewed-platform production, paired with a $150M capital raise.
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.
The consumer-desktop sector has crossed into industrial-scale infrastructure, as Creality’s Hong Kong IPO filing, Elegoo’s $70M software-defensive round.
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.