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Grenzebach Additive Solutions now offers turnkey, manufacturer-independent automation for the whole post-processing chain (loading, buffering, transport, depowdering, CNC links) and takes full project responsibility. It will show the setup at Formnext 2026.
Read the story →Wisconsin contract shop Evology is buying a quad-laser EOS M 400-4, its eighth metal machine and tenth EOS system, and joining EOS's Production Partner Network. The reason is a space-customer backlog and a rule to add capacity once lead times pass two to three weeks.
SprintRay is no longer just a printer company: at 3DNext 2026 it launched Foundation, its first intraoral scanner, and the compact Nano print-wash-cure line for single-patient jobs. Both ship in November, and the scanner puts SprintRay in direct competition with established scanner makers.
3D Systems has opened a 50,000 sq ft Industrial Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado, bringing its additive manufacturing footprint to about 270,000 sq ft and putting a defense-grade compliance stack behind its push into aerospace, defense and semiconductor equipment parts.
Italian high-performance polymer printer maker Roboze has raised $10M led by returning backer Rialto Ventures, and is spending it on U.S. capacity for qualified end-use parts, new hires and a move into ceramic matrix composites and stealth-related materials.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Battery 3D-printing company Sakuu will go public via SPAC Pyrophyte Acquisition Corp. II at a $600M pre-money valuation under ticker SAKU, using the proceeds to push its Kavian dry electrode printing platform toward commercial availability in Q2 2027.
Vivobarefoot's first scan-to-print sandal drew more than 1,300 paid reservations but was too heavy, abrasive and costly to make with SLS, so Tabi Gen 02 moves to Carbon DLS in a PU foam printed by OECHSLER.
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