Expansion News
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Additive manufacturing company growth: hiring, new facilities, capacity expansion, and international market moves.
Beehive Industries to invest $70M, add 200+ jobs in Southwest Ohio expansion to scale 3D-printed jet engine production toward 8,000 units annually
Beehive Industries, JobsOhio, REDI Cincinnati and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced a $70 million expansion of the company's Southwest Ohio operations, creating more than 200 new jobs, at the Farnboroug...
Eaton Aerospace opens European Centre of Additive Manufacturing at Wimborne, UK, targeting titanium and electron beam production
Eaton Aerospace has opened a European Centre of Additive Manufacturing at its aerospace campus in Wimborne, UK, combining design, engineering, printing and validation under one roof. The facility is b...
Velo3D opens 289,000-sq-ft Forge 1 metal-AM production campus in Livermore, CA with 40 printers, targets 100+
Velo3D held a ribbon-cutting this week for Forge 1, a new 289,000-square-foot metal additive manufacturing production campus in Livermore, California. The facility opened with 40 metal 3D printers ins...
Bambu Lab opens its first Chongqing offline 3D-printing experience store
Bambu Lab opened its first offline 3D-printing experience store in Chongqing on July 17. The site combines product displays with hands-on activities spanning 3D modeling, printing, painting and physic...
LightForce Orthodontics names Erica Rogers CEO, adds 3D-printed metal brackets after treating 200,000 patients
LightForce Orthodontics has appointed medtech executive Erica Rogers as CEO, moving founder Alfred Griffin to Chief Product Officer while he stays board chairman. The company says more than 200,000 pa...
RIC Robotics to build 106-home, 55-acre 3D-printed community in Colorado, its largest to date
RIC Robotics, a Denver-based construction 3D printing company, is starting development on a 106-home community in Colorado called Creola, built across 55 acres and printed entirely with the company's...
Serendix Plans 47 sqm 3D Print Park at LOGI'Q Kobe Shin-Nagata for August 2026 Opening
Serendix, the Japanese 3D-printed housing company, plans to build a 47-square-metre 3D Print Park at Tokyu Land's LOGI'Q Kobe Shin-Nagata logistics facility, which is scheduled for completion in Augus...
Creality opens two retail stores in Nanjing within one month, expanding to 68 JD.com storefronts nationwide
Creality opened its Nanjing Jiangning Golden Eagle store on July 12, with a second location at Nanjing Jianye Jinling Tiandi scheduled to open July 23, adding two brick-and-mortar stores in the same c...
Mears Machine Corporation orders fifth Velo3D Sapphire XC LPBF system, options two more for aerospace and defense capacity
Mears Machine Corporation has ordered a fifth Velo3D Sapphire XC laser powder bed fusion system and secured options on two additional units to expand metal 3D printing capacity for aerospace, defense,...
Ursa Major completes $25M Solid Rocket Motor pathfinder with U.S. Navy and OSC, validates Lynx production method
Ursa Major has completed its Solid Rocket Motor Manufacturing Pathfinder Program, a cost-share effort with the U.S. Navy and the Office of Strategic Capital worth a combined $25 million. The program w...
BMW's Additive Manufacturing Campus in Oberschleißheim expands automation, adds serial Wire Arc DED from 2027
BMW Group is expanding automation and technological breadth at its Additive Manufacturing Campus (AMC) in Oberschleißheim, adding new equipment and orienting the site toward scalable industrial applic...
Luxshare Precision enters metal AM production with titanium watch cases, AI glasses frames, and vapor chambers
Luxshare Precision, the Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer with over RMB 330 billion in 2025 revenue, disclosed in its Hong Kong IPO filing that its 3D-printed titanium alloy watch case project h...
K&K Prototypenbau invests millions in relocation to Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock
German service bureau K&K Prototypenbau is relocating its operations from Leopoldshöhe to Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony held in mid-July 2026. Managing directors Da...
Helsing Opens West Virginia HX-2 Drone Factory, Closes $1.8B Series E at $18B Valuation
Helsing, the Munich-based software-defined defense company, announced Monday it will open its first US manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to produce the HX-2 loitering munition. The...
RIC Robotics begins construction on 106-home Cleora community in Colorado, seven homes already completed
RIC Robotics, a Denver-based additive construction service provider, has begun work on Cleora, a planned community of 106 homes on 55 acres in central Colorado, with roughly two-thirds of the units to...
Protolabs expands CNC machining and MJF 3D printing capacity for drone makers as segment revenue grows 90% since 2023
Protolabs has expanded its quick-turn CNC machining and Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing capacity for commercial and defense drone manufacturers, adding MJF capacity through a partnership with HP Additive...
JLC3DP consolidates seven AM processes and 30-plus materials into single-platform manufacturing service as of June 2026
JLC3DP, the additive manufacturing service arm of Shenzhen-based JLCPCB, confirmed as of end-June 2026 that it now covers seven mainstream 3D printing processes on one platform: SLA vat photopolymeriz...
AML3D delivers first containerized ARCEMY wire-arc metal AM system to US Navy's Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Danville, Virginia
Australian wire-arc additive manufacturing company AML3D has delivered its first containerized, portable ARCEMY system to the US Navy's Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in Danville...
Beehive orders multiple Nikon SLM NXG 600E ultra-large-format LPBF systems for aerospace and defense metal parts
Beehive has placed an order for multiple Nikon SLM Solutions NXG 600E metal laser powder bed fusion systems, according to a report on nanjixiong.com. The NXG 600E is an ultra-large-format LPBF platfor...
Okland Construction signs 85,241 sq ft lease in Deer Valley for advanced manufacturing growth
Okland Construction Co. Inc., one of Phoenix's largest contractors, has signed an 85,241-square-foot lease at 17 North Corporate Center in Deer Valley to support its growing advanced manufacturing pro...