Expansion News
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Additive manufacturing company growth: hiring, new facilities, capacity expansion, and international market moves.
Bambu Lab enters 64 Sam's Club stores across China for retail distribution
Bambu Lab (拓竹科技) has placed its A1 desktop 3D printer into 64 Sam's Club locations across China, with in-store displays occupying roughly one square meter each. The rollout began in mid-May 2025, with...
LEAP Space plans 460 jobs in Colorado for 3D-printed rocket engines, secures $8M tax credits
LEAP Space, currently headquartered in Lafayette, Colorado, has announced plans to expand its operations in the Boulder region, targeting the production of 3D-printed small rocket engines. The company...
LIG D&A and LIG Precision Technology establish Metal AM Center for mass production of metal 3D printed defense parts
LIG D&A, a South Korean defense and aerospace systems company, and its subsidiary LIG Precision Technology have launched a Metal Additive Manufacturing Center dedicated to mass production of metal 3D...
Liebherr-Aerospace adds Renishaw RenAM 500Q at Campsas for nickel/aluminum AM production
Liebherr-Aerospace has installed a Renishaw RenAM 500Q metal Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) system at its Campsas, France facility, expanding its production capacity for aerospace air managemen...
ROE Dental Laboratory triples digital denture capacity with additional NextDent 300 systems from 3D Systems
ROE Dental Laboratory, a US-based dental lab, has purchased additional NextDent 300 3D printers from 3D Systems to triple its production capacity for printed full dentures. The systems use a multi-mat...
铂力特 breaks ground on 1-billion-yuan AM powder production line in Fengxi New City
铂力特 (BLT) has broken ground on a new metal powder production facility in Fengxi New City, Shaanxi Province, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan (approximately $138 million). The facility is desi...
Cave Holdings expands polymer AM production with Roboze ARGO systems
Cave Holdings USA has expanded its additive manufacturing capacity with multiple Roboze industrial polymer systems, moving beyond prototyping into production-grade part manufacturing. The company now...
Prototal Group opens Dornbirn DACH location for industrial 3D printing and injection molding series production
Prototal Group, the Swedish industrial 3D printing and injection molding service provider headquartered in Jönköping, has opened a new subsidiary, Prototal GmbH, in Dornbirn, Austria, at the site of i...
Oriental Space signs rocket super factory in Jinan, completing Shandong's commercial launch manufacturing chain
Oriental Space (东方空间), the Chinese commercial launch startup behind the Gravity-1 solid rocket, has signed an agreement with the Jinan High-Tech Industrial Development Zone to build a rocket super fac...
K3D adds two MetalFab systems from Additive Industries, expanding metal AM capacity to six systems across two sites
Dutch service bureau K3D has installed two additional Additive Industries MetalFab systems, bringing its total fleet to six machines across two production facilities in the eastern Netherlands and the...
YOKOITO installs two UnionTech SLA printers to offer large-format transparent AM services in Japan
Kyoto-based YOKOITO has installed two UnionTech SLA 3D printers - the ultra-large RsPro 1800 and the medium-format LITE 600 2.0 - to expand its contract manufacturing capabilities. The RsPro 1800 offe...
Cave Holdings installs ROBOZE ARGO 1000 HYPERMELT 3D printer to expand fleet
Cave Holdings USA, an advanced manufacturing service provider, has installed a ROBOZE ARGO 1000 HYPERMELT system, adding to a fleet that already includes one upgraded ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED and six ARGO...
LIG Precision Technology invests $6M in Daejeon Metal AM Center for defense parts production
LIG Precision Technology, a South Korean defense technology specialist, has opened a dedicated Metal AM Center in Daejeon's Yuseong District, investing approximately 78 billion KRW (about $6 million U...
Makelab CEO Christina Perla details AI-driven Makelab OS and 5x facility expansion in Brooklyn
Makelab CEO Christina Perla has outlined the company’s accelerated growth strategy, centered on the development of an AI-powered operating system dubbed Makelab OS. Speaking to TCT at RAPID + TCT in B...
Century Tool adds thermoplastic composites trial capabilities on-site with infrared oven investment
Century Tool, a Michigan-based tooling and composites manufacturer, has installed an infrared oven on-site to enable thermoplastic composite trial capabilities, as announced in May 2026. The investmen...
Heilongjiang Duowei Shikong Scales Industrial AM Across 12 Chinese Cities with Full-Stack Platform
Heilongjiang Duowei Shikong Free Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a Daqing-based industrial additive manufacturing platform, has disclosed its full operational scope as of May 2026. Founded in 2014, the compa...
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Unionfab expands metal 3D printing services to USA, Canada, and Germany with AI multilaser technology
Unionfab, the Shanghai-based digital manufacturing platform, has expanded its industrial metal 3D printing service offerings to customers in the United States, Canada, and Germany, as reported by dpa...
Graphy targets North American market with SMA 3D-printed clear aligner at AAO 2026
Graphy, led by CEO Shim Woon-seop, successfully exhibited its shape-memory alloy (SMA) 3D-printed clear aligner system at the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) 2026 meeting, held in May 2026...
K3D expands MetalFab fleet to six systems across two Netherlands sites, hits one million metal parts milestone
Dutch metal AM service bureau K3D has expanded its production capacity by adding two MetalFab LPBF systems, bringing its total fleet to six machines across two facilities in the eastern Netherlands an...
Jinshi 3D Invests 3.5B Yuan in Southwest China Headquarters, Deploys Over 1,000 3D Printers in Chengdu
Jinshi 3D (Jinshi Sanwei) officially launched its Southwest China headquarters in Chengdu on May 15, 2026, with a total planned investment of 3.5 billion yuan (approximately $485 million). The project...