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SPEE3D's Cold-Spray Metal Printer Goes to Sea for the First Time at RIMPAC 2026
A joint US-Canadian team installed SPEE3D's XSPEE3D cold-spray printer aboard the support ship MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, printing 8 of 32 mission-critical metal parts underway in the first-ever shipboard deployment of the technology.
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Printers
AxiLoop's Eight-Nozzle MC8 Makes Its Public Debut at Formnext Asia Shenzhen
A precision-machinery company with no prior 3D printing history showed off an eight-toolhead printer promising a 10x cut in multicolor purge waste at Formnext Asia Shenzhen.
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Business
Creality Posts a First-Half Loss Three Months After Its Hong Kong IPO, Plans $80M Shenzhen HQ
Creality swung to a net loss in H1 2026 despite 12.9% revenue growth, just three months after a 3,829x-oversubscribed Hong Kong IPO, and simultaneously unveiled plans for an RMB550M Shenzhen AM headquarters.
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Materials
Deakin's Rotary-Printed Kirigami Cylinders Program Stiffness Without Changing Material
Deakin and Seoul National University of Science and Technology researchers 3D printed auxetic 'meta-cylinders' on a rotary-modified desktop printer, tuning stiffness and collapse behavior through geometry alone using a single flexible TPU.
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Industry
DOE Backs Coreshell and AM Batteries With $50M to Localize Battery Anode Manufacturing
DOE is putting $50M behind two additive-manufacturing battery startups to build domestic, Chinese-mineral-free anode production using silicon chemistry and roll-to-roll dry coating.
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Guides
A Maker Prints an Epoxy Benchy Inside a Shear-Thinning Support Bath
A syringe-pump extruder and a mineral-oil-and-fumed-silica support gel let a maker embedded-print a two-part-epoxy Benchy, hinting at FDM printing with materials no ordinary hot end can touch.
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Industry
Additive Assurance Partners With NTT Data's XAM to Bring Real-Time Metal-AM Monitoring to Japan
Australian firm Additive Assurance has signed NTT Data XAM Technologies, Japan's first EOS distributor since 1993, to bring real-time AMiRIS quality monitoring to the country's installed base of metal laser powder bed fusion machines.
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Materials
German Startup Malping Wants to Sell FGF PEEK Printing as a Turnkey Service
Stuttgart-area startup Malping is betting that granule-fed PEEK, PEKK, PPS-GF20 and ULTEM 9085 printing — plus a system it will sell you outright — beats filament on cost and beats bureaus on control.
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Printers
From a Rose-Hulman Apartment to RAPID 2026: Unlayered 3D's Bet on Five-Axis Desktop Printing
Two Rose-Hulman grads built a patent-pending five-axis desktop FDM printer in their college apartment, showed a fifth-generation pilot unit at RAPID 2026, and are now signing up pilot users ahead of a San Francisco launch.
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Business
Rocket Engine Maker Ursa Major Goes Public in $2.3 Billion SPAC Deal Built on 3D-Printed Hardware
Ursa Major is going public at a $2.3B valuation on the strength of a rocket engine that's roughly 80% 3D printed by mass — a rare case of metal LPBF hardware carrying a company straight to Nasdaq.
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Guides
A Roman Ring Gets a 3D-Scanned Twin You're Allowed to Touch
Somerset's library 3D printing service scanned a 1,700-year-old gold Roman signet ring with a Creality Sermoon P1 and printed a handling replica so museum visitors can hold what the fragile original can't survive touching.
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Materials
ORNL and INL 3D Print a Steel Pressure Vessel to Chase "Born-Qualified" Nuclear Parts
Oak Ridge and Idaho national labs used three-armed wire arc printing to build a nuclear-grade steel pressure vessel, aiming to pair real-time print data with AI to cut years off reactor-component qualification.
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