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The business of printing for profit — pricing, margins, print farms, and the equipment economics that make or break a shop.
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Josef Prusa Says It Is 'One Minute to Midnight' for Western Desktop 3D Printer Makers
Josef Prusa warns that subsidized Chinese rivals are squeezing Western printer makers into "slow suffocation" and that cheap desktop machines are eating industrial's low end. We checked his claims against Creality's filings, CONTEXT shipment data and the FY2026 NDAA.
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MELD PrintWorks Builds a New Virginia Plant to Print Larger Solid-State Metal Parts
MELD PrintWorks is building a purpose-built 12,000 sq ft plant in Christiansburg, Virginia, opening in 2027. It will house larger solid-state metal printers for aluminum, titanium and copper parts, aimed at customers who cannot get forgings and castings.
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Leidos Taps X-Bow's 3D-Printed Rocket Motors for the Army's Low-Cost Cruise Missile
X-Bow Systems will develop and produce booster motors for the Army's Low-Cost Containerized Munition under Leidos, a bet that additive manufacturing can turn solid rocket motors from a bottleneck into a volume product, with full-rate production planned for 2027.
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Fathom Buys Three Aerospace and Defense Suppliers, Reaching 10 Facilities and About 700 Employees
Fathom Digital Manufacturing, whose services include additive manufacturing, has bought TCS Industries, TCS Electronics and Precision Grinding & Manufacturing. The deals move it further into precision machining and electronics for aerospace and defense, and bring it to 10 facilities and about 700 employees.
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Amaero Prices $20M Nasdaq IPO, Warns It Will Need More Capital in 2027
Metal powder maker Amaero priced its US IPO at $4.25 a share, raising $20M gross (about $15.7M net) and listing on Nasdaq as AMRO, but its prospectus shows widening losses, about $4.95M of cash at the end of September, and a need for more capital in 2027.
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ICON Raises $200M Series D as 3D-Printed Construction Scales Toward Titan Rollout
ICON has raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to build its Titan robotic systems, open a large Austin R&D facility and expand across Texas, Florida and D.C. It also says it has passed 270 printed buildings and is on pace for 4x revenue growth in 2026.
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Makelab Moves Into Brooklyn's MADE: Bush Terminal to Chase Tier-One Industrial Clients
A 53-foot truck from a tier-one auto supplier made the case: New York print studio Makelab has taken a 3,840 sq ft space at Brooklyn's MADE: Bush Terminal because its old site's limited access could not handle the industrial clients it now wants.
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Graphy Lands a KRW 2 Billion Dental Resin Deal With MegaGen
Korean resin maker Graphy will supply MegaGen Implant with its ceramic-filled Tera Harz E-Namel permanent-crown resin, along with printers and post-processing hardware, in a KRW 2 billion (about $1.3M) deal that also points to a wider "K-Dental Workflow."
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Meshy Passes $100M ARR and Ships a Phone App That Sends Photos Straight to the Printer
Meshy says annual recurring revenue topped US$100M, up 100x from US$1M in under two years, and launched iOS and Android apps that turn photos into printable models with printability checks and STL/3MF export.
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Carbon's Dual-Cure Patent Survives EPO Appeal After a Three-and-a-Half-Year Fight
An EPO Board of Appeal maintained Carbon's European Patent 3158400 in amended form, upholding claim 1 and restoring dependent claims, ending a proceeding that began with an opposition filed in February 2023.
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Robotics Is Now a Rush-Order Business for On-Demand 3D Printing: Protolabs Doubles, Upside Parts Sees 37% Rush
Protolabs says robotics-customer revenue more than doubled in H1 2026, and Upside Parts found 36.7% of robotics parts ran rush versus 7.2% for other hardware customers. Together they show robotics setting the pace for on-demand printing.
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Stratasys CEO Yoav Zeif on Markforged, the iAM Marketplace, and Why the Company Is Betting on High-Value Production
In a VoxelMatters interview at Stratasys HQ, CEO Yoav Zeif explains the pending $42.5M Markforged purchase, why he sees a polarizing market, and why larger multi-machine FDM orders in aerospace and defense anchor the strategy. These are his claims.
