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The consolidator that swallowed Desktop Metal and Markforged has installed an interim CEO and a new chairman to finish dismantling the portfolio — and to steer the company out of additive manufacturing entirely.
Read the story →Eaton's new European Centre of Additive Manufacturing in Wimborne, England is its third AM site globally, houses its largest metal printer, and is aiming at AS9100-certified titanium production via electron beam — a telling signal about who actually buys industrial metal printers in 2026.
Sciperio, nScrypt's research division, has been granted US Patent 12,654,396 B2 for a servo-controlled progressive cavity pump that dispenses materials above 1,000,000 centipoise — the IP foundation under the QuantiHelix platform and nScrypt's DoD point-of-need business.
EOS is ending new sales of its FORMIGA SLS platform after nearly two decades, pushing toward larger automated systems like the P3 NEXT — while refurbisher Inframotion 3D moves to keep the cheaper machine alive.
LightForce Orthodontics named Silk Road Medical veteran Erica Rogers CEO on July 16, 2026, moving founder Alfred Griffin to Chairman and Chief Product Officer as its patient-specific 3D-printed brackets push into a ~$10B market.
The Swiss firm that 3D prints RF payloads says it did $140M in 2025 revenue, holds $500M+ in contracted orders, has grown at a 110% CAGR since 2022, and hit positive EBITDA in 2026 — rare hard numbers in a sector that usually announces capacity instead of income.
Würth Group is shutting down its five-year-old Würth Additive Group division, offering only a terse statement and a closing-office email address to explain the end of its AM distribution and Digital Inventory Services business.
IperionX priced a $50M ADS offering to expand its Virginia and Tennessee titanium projects, bolstering a rare domestic source of recycled titanium powder for metal 3D printing.
Bambu Lab is donating the full MSRP of Venezuela-flag-colored PLA Basic Refill sold July 13-15 to UN Crisis Relief, building on a prior $50,000 LATAM pledge and grassroots maker splint printing after the country's twin earthquakes.
BigRep SE's boards sold operating unit BigRep GmbH to three buyers, then delisted the SPAC-listed parent from Frankfurt and began voluntary liquidation, citing financing pressure and weak US traction.
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New Zealand's Zenith Tecnica, an early Electron Beam Melting shop supplying titanium parts for Air New Zealand, Maxar, and NASA's Psyche mission, has been acquired by a new ownership group planning to expand capacity as revenue grows 490% since 2020.
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