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Business
Snapmaker Raises Roughly €129M Series C — The Largest Consumer 3D-Printing Round in Two Years
Shenzhen's Snapmaker closed a ¥1 billion (~€129M/$140M) Series C on July 8, 2026, led by Cathay Capital, in what the company calls the largest consumer 3D-printing funding round in two years.
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Materials
Australia Bets A$677,000 on Locally Made TiRO Titanium Powder for Metal 3D Printing
AMCRC, University of Queensland, and Coogee Titanium launch a A$677,000 project to benchmark Australia's low-emissions TiRO titanium powder against conventional AM powders for aerospace, defense, and medical printing.
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Guides
Massivit Opens Its First European Digital-Tooling Hub in Barcelona to Cut Composite Mold Lead Times From Months to Days
Massivit's new Barcelona Service Center 3D prints on-demand molds, mandrels and jigs for aerospace and defense composite manufacturers, aiming to compress tooling lead times from months to days.
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Industry
Orbital Matter's Replicator-2 Prints Solar-Array Structures in the Vacuum of Space
Orbital Matter's Replicator-2 CubeSat launched on a Falcon 9 rideshare and is now extruding UV-cured photopolymer arms in unpressurized space — the first structural 3D printing demo outside the ISS's pressurized cabin.
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Business
Venus Aerospace Raises $91M to Scale Its 3D-Printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine
Houston's Venus Aerospace closed a $91M Series B to push its largely 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine from a record 2025 flight test into full production for defense and space customers.
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Printers
Ex-Boeing and Amazon Execs Buy Zenith Tecnica, Plan to Grow EBM Titanium Fleet From 6 to 8 Printers
New owners Andrew Burgess and Blair Jordan are expanding New Zealand's Zenith Tecnica — a top EBM titanium manufacturer serving NASA's Psyche mission — from six printers to eight after a June 18 acquisition and 490% revenue growth since FY2020.
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Printers
Beehive Industries Bets on Ultra-Large Metal 3D Printing With Multi-Unit Nikon SLM Solutions Order
Beehive Industries has self-funded a multi-unit order of Nikon SLM Solutions' largest metal printer, the NXG 600E, splitting capacity between aluminum and titanium to print whole vehicle bodies for defense and space customers.
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Materials
EOS and Constellium Team Up to Expand Aluminum Alloy Options for Metal 3D Printing
EOS and aluminum specialist Constellium announced a materials partnership adding a new high-strength CP1 alloy this August and rebranding EOS's Al5X1 alloy, with more joint aluminum development to come.
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Business
Velo3D's Biggest Customer Just Bought a Fifth Sapphire XC Metal Printer
Mears Machine Corporation has ordered its fifth Velo3D Sapphire XC metal printer, with options on two more, building what's billed as one of North America's largest independent fleets of the machine.
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Software
Tomo Software Aims to Make Volumetric 3D Printing as Easy as Slicing an STL
OpenCAL's new Tomo app, paired with V2 hardware and a Formlabs resin partnership, wants to strip the command-line barrier off volumetric printing, which cures whole objects in a spinning resin vial in minutes.
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Industry
How the 3D Printing Community Raced to Help Venezuela After Its Deadliest Earthquake Since 1900
After a 7.5-magnitude quake devastated Yaracuy State, 97 maker teams in 11 countries printed thousands of open-sourced splints within two weeks, backed by a $50,000 Bambu Lab pledge and a filament fundraiser for UN Crisis Relief.
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Materials
Scientists 3D Print a Miniature Diving Suit That Lets Cyborg Cockroaches Swim for Three Hours
A 10x10mm 3D-printed photopolymer backpack and waterproof shell let cyborg cockroaches survive underwater for three hours instead of minutes, aimed at search-and-rescue robots for flooded pipes and disaster zones.
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