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Formlabs Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever — and Is Prepping Three New Printers to Follow It Up
Formlabs posted all-time-high sales across hardware, services, and SLS in Q2 2026 on the back of its Fuse X1 launch, and says three more printer platforms are coming within a year.
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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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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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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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CurifyLabs Raises $14M Series A to Scale 3D-Printed Personalized Medicine in the US
Helsinki/Jacksonville-based CurifyLabs closed a $14M Series A to expand its pharmacy-based PharmaPrinter Aurum compounding system, already live in 21 US states, deeper into the American market.
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Chinese Metal-AM Player Backed by Academician Wang Huaming Files for $250M+ Shanghai IPO
Beijing-founded, Xiong'an-registered metal 3D-printing firm Yuding Additive has filed to raise roughly RMB 1.8 billion on Shanghai's STAR Market to expand titanium and ultra-high-strength-steel printing for aerospace and nuclear programs.
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PTC Industries Approves Roughly $210M Raise to Expand Aerospace Metal 3D-Printing Capacity
Indian aerospace-materials firm PTC Industries' board cleared a Rs 1,800 crore ($210M) fundraise to scale up titanium and superalloy metal 3D-printing capacity at subsidiary Aerolloy Technologies.
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Alpine and Lacoste's One-Off Rally Car Hides 3D-Printed Lattice Seats Under the Crocodile Livery
Alpine and Lacoste's one-off A290 Rallye conceals ERPRO's 3D-printed lattice seat structures beneath embroidered crocodile upholstery — a small but telling sign that additive manufacturing has moved from prototyping into brand-collaboration hardware.
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Massachusetts Hands VulcanForms $21.3M to Build a Third Metal 3D-Printing Plant — 1,063 New Jobs
Massachusetts approved a $21.26M tax credit for VulcanForms' third Devens facility, part of a $52M EDIP round expected to create 2,793 jobs and draw $1.4B in private investment statewide.
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Amaero's 3D-Printed Submarine Piping Wins a Seventh Navy Supply Chain Contract
Amaero has landed its seventh Bechtel Plant Machinery contract in two years to 3D print submarine piping via PM-HIP, a signal that additive manufacturing is becoming routine in naval shipbuilding's most bottlenecked supply chains.
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Beehive Industries Buys Two Cincinnati Machine Shops to Scale 3D-Printed Jet Engines
Beehive Industries acquired Able Tool and its subsidiary Planet Products near Cincinnati, pairing high-volume machining with Knoxville metal AM to push its Frenzy engine toward 8,000+ units a year.
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Australia Puts AUD $3.25M on the Table to Get Small Manufacturers Into 3D Printing
Australia's AMCRC opened its STARTER program on July 1, 2026 — a AUD $3.25M pool of dollar-for-dollar matched grants (AUD $20k–$75k each) that lets SMEs and startups trial additive manufacturing on real projects, with an info session July 15.
