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Business
ADDMAN Plans 81 More HP Jet Fusion 5620 Pro Printers, Taking Its MJF Fleet Past 125
US service provider ADDMAN plans to add 81 HP Jet Fusion 5620 Pro printers, taking its Multi Jet Fusion fleet past 125 systems. There is no install timeline yet, and HP is already calling it a step toward lights-out factories.
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Industry
Mears Orders a Sixth Velo3D Sapphire XC, Dedicated Entirely to Copper-Nickel
Mears Machine is adding a sixth Velo3D Sapphire XC that will print only 70-30 copper-nickel. The seawater-resistant alloy has traditionally been cast for marine cooling, condenser and heat exchanger parts, and Mears plans to design, print, machine and inspect them all in-house.
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Materials
GC GRADIA PREMi: A Hybrid Ceramic Resin That Only Prints on SprintRay's Midas Press
GC's first restorative printing material is a highly filled, highly viscous hybrid ceramic resin that it says conventional dental printers can't process. It runs only on SprintRay's Midas Digital Press, which presses material into the build area instead of waiting for it to flow, so the printer is now what decides which materials are possible.
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Software
Constructor AI Opens a Free Browser Test of Its 'Design Without CAD' Tool for 3D Printers
Michael Bender's Constructor AI lets you describe a part, answer dimension prompts and get an STL and G-code in the browser, but an early forum tester found the guided flow rigid, and Bender says it is not a finished product.
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Business
6K Additive Closes $27.4M EXIM Loan to Expand Pennsylvania Metal Powder Plant
6K Additive has signed its final $27.4M EXIM loan, a six-year, fixed-rate facility that will pay for four new buildings in Burgettstown, PA, and lift the plant's powder output from 200 to more than 1,000 metric tons a year.
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Business
Mimir Closes Osprey Purchase: Sandvik's Metal Powder Arm Goes Independent
Mimir closed its purchase of Osprey, Sandvik's gas-atomized metal powder unit for AM, MIM and HIP, on October 1, turning the 2,000-grade supplier with sites in Neath and Sandviken into an independent company and leaving its qualified lines, contracts and orders unchanged.
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Software
Neural4D Multicolor Turns Textured AI Models Into Color-Mapped 3MF Files
Neural4D's new Multicolor feature reads a model's PBR texture, uses AI to find color regions, proposes a four-color starting scheme and exports a slicer-ready 3MF. For now it only accepts models generated inside Neural4D.
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Business
ASTRO America's Nearly $9M CRADA Puts Additive Manufacturing to Work on Northrop Grumman's Gray Wolf Missile
ASTRO America, Northrop Grumman, FSU InSPIRE and AFRL/RAB have signed a nearly $9M research agreement to test solid-state deposition, powder bed fusion, novel casting and machining on the Gray Wolf missile. The goal is to cut the cost and time of building and qualifying subsonic munitions, working from a new lab near Eglin AFB.
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Guides
CMF's Milk-Carton Speakers Ship With Official STL Files: How to Print Your Own Panels and Knobs
CMF's new $59 Speaker S and $109 Speaker M have pop-off panels and knobs, and the company has published official STL files with print advice on materials, layer height and orientation. Here is how to use them.
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Business
Mausware Expands Its 3D-Printed Finger Maus Line to Four Models and Picks a Richmond Bank Building as HQ
Mausware's finger-worn mouse, whose structure is 3D printed from plant-based resin, now comes in four named models and has a deal for a historic Richmond HQ. Only the 23 g Spectrum has specs, and there are no prices or dates yet.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.5.0 Alpha: Python Plugins, Belt Printers, a Design Tab and Color Mixing in One Release
OrcaSlicer's V2.5.0 Alpha, built from 950+ pull requests by 140+ contributors, adds Python plugins, belt printer profiles, an experimental CAD Design tab, color mixing, texture displacement and parallel IDEX/IQEX printing. It is still an alpha, so back up your profiles first.
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Materials
AM Solutions Closes the Powder Loop for Polymer SLS With PMS and DFS Systems
AM Solutions' new Powder Management System and Direct Feeding System pipe conditioned powder from the F1 straight back to EOS SLS printers, removing the last manual transfer step. Both are on sale now and debut at Formnext 2026.
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