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 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.
Market InsightsSEP 96 min read
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
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 exposes where consumer 3D printing profits sit: filament margins are built on Amazon storefront control, not polymer alone.
Market InsightsAUG 316 min read
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 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 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 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
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 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'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
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 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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