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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.

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Korea's 5-Meter Printed Propeller Is a Class-Certification Program, Not a Size Record
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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 DigestSEP 41 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 18: China FAW opens 43-printer AM innovation center, claims 19,000-part yearly capacity

China FAW's 43-printer innovation center, with a claimed 19,000-part annual capacity and RMB 30.59 million in disclosed savings on Hongqi interior trim, suggests.

Market InsightsSEP 36 min read

SUNLU's ChiNext Review Shows Why Consumer 3D Printing Profits Sit in the Storefront

SUNLU's ChiNext review exposes where consumer 3D printing profits sit: filament margins are built on Amazon storefront control, not polymer alone.

Market InsightsAUG 316 min read

SPEE3D Printed at Sea, But the Capability Lives in a Tennessee Armory

SPEE3D made 32 metal parts at RIMPAC 2026, but only eight at sea and 29 needed heat treatment and machining. The capability is the network, not the deck printer.

Market InsightsAUG 274 min read

3D Systems’ SRNL CRADA Builds a Nuclear Qualification Stack, Not an Order

3D Systems and SRNL are building nuclear AM qualification around installed hardware, but no named component, production customer or order has emerged.

Market InsightsAUG 246 min read

PyroGenesis Is Selling the Titanium Cut Laser Powder Bed Can't Use

PyroGenesis signed two coarse-cut titanium powder contracts in five days, both into DED and EBM rather than LPBF. The economics favor the fraction lasers skip.

Market InsightsAUG 216 min read

Formlabs Finished Building a Public-Company Board Before Confirming an IPO

Formlabs rebuilt its board days after a reported US IPO exploration. The governance moves date the listing process more precisely than the Bloomberg report does.

Asia DigestAUG 141 min read

AMPulse Asia · Fortnight 17: AM Solutions earns Korean Register's first laser wire-DED process certificate for marine repair

AM Solutions securing the first Korean Register process certificate for laser wire-DED repair establishes a regulatory qualification milestone that may lower the barrier for DED adoption in maritime and defense MRO.

Market InsightsAUG 126 min read

Continuous Composites Turned Its Patent Estate Into a Price Floor for Continuous Fiber

Continuous Composites asserts ten patents against Fibre Seek's $2,699 desktop printer. The binding constraint on cheap continuous fiber is now a licence, not cost.

Market InsightsAUG 96 min read

Elmet Can Print C103 Because It Owns the Atomizer, Not Because It Bought a Printer

Elmet's C103 niobium heat exchanger line for hypersonics is gated by powder chemistry and NASA certification, not printer access. Nothing is qualified yet.

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 InsightsAUG 66 min read

IperionX Is Moving to Texas Because Capital Structure, Not Chemistry, Gates Titanium Powder

IperionX proposes a Texas parent and direct Nasdaq listing weeks after Amaero's own US move. Domicile, not process technology, now gates domestic titanium powder.

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