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Inside Huafast: The Chinese Print Farm Running 15,000 Desktop 3D Printers as a Factory
A Shenzhen print farm treats thousands of Bambu Lab desktop printers as disposable factory tooling, filling 50,000-unit orders in a week and chasing viral toy trends before they vanish.
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Bambu Lab's 3-Million-Printer Shenzhen Factory Moves From Paperwork to Construction Access
A routine Guangming District filing for a temporary construction entrance signals Bambu Lab's sprawling Shenzhen manufacturing complex is finally shifting from land deals to ground-breaking.
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Amaero Pulls Its Nasdaq IPO as Metal-Powder Maker Cites 'Adverse Market Conditions'
Two days after filing its S-1, Tennessee-based metal-powder producer Amaero postponed a $52.6M Nasdaq listing under ticker AMRO, citing adverse market conditions and giving no new timetable.
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Massivit Brings Its Fast-Turnaround Aerospace Tooling Platform to North America
Massivit 3D's RapidWings service, which prints large-format aerospace tooling in days instead of months, is launching in North America through a partnership with Oregon manufacturer Artek.
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Texas Jury Hits Bambu Lab With $27.6M Verdict in Stratasys Patent Fight
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab's X1, P1 and A1 printers willfully infringed four Stratasys patents on prime-tower purging and bed leveling, awarding $27.6 million — with a second, potentially bigger trial still to come.
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Beamit Comes Back: Italy's Metal-AM Service Bureau Installs a Six-Laser EOS M4 ONYX After Liquidation
VoxelMatters reports Beamit's Fornovo plant installed the first EOS M4 ONYX in EMEA and renewed NADCAP, months after a Parma court opened liquidation and Rainshow Industries bought the aerospace unit.
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Jury Finds Bambu Lab Willfully Infringed Four Stratasys Patents, Awards $27.6 Million
An East Texas jury found four Bambu Lab entities willfully infringed four Stratasys FDM patents and awarded about $27.6M in past damages; Bambu will seek post-trial review and appeal, and the second suit has no trial date.
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Norway's KONGSBERG Buys Multi-Laser EOS/AMCM Metal Printers for Defense Production
Norwegian defense group KONGSBERG is adding an AMCM M 4K and an AMCM M 290-2 1kW multi-laser metal printer to print demonstrator hardware and flyaway parts, with EOS's Additive Minds unit handling the integration.
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SPEE3D Hands Global CEO Role to Bryan O'Connor as Founder Moves to Chase US Defense Growth
Cold-spray metal printing pioneer SPEE3D named 30-year aerospace/defense veteran Bryan O'Connor as Global CEO while co-founder Byron Kennedy relocates to the US to personally drive growth in the company's largest market.
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Bechtle Swallows Its Biggest HP 3D-Printing Rival, Buying Kaut-Bullinger's Additive Business
Bechtle has acquired Kaut-Bullinger's entire HP 3D-printing operation in Germany and Austria, becoming Germany's largest HP additive manufacturing partner as the family-owned reseller exits the sector for good.
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Freemelt Restructures Into a Two-Track Metal-AM Business as Manufacturing Services Enter the Mix
Swedish electron-beam metal printer maker Freemelt is splitting into machine sales and a new component-manufacturing arm, betting that customers now want finished parts as much as printers — a move that expands its claimed addressable market roughly twentyfold.
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Impossible Objects Raises $40 Million to Scale Its 15x-Faster Composite 3D Printing System
Impossible Objects has closed a $40 million Series B led by Inflection Equity to scale production of its CBAM 25 composite 3D printer, which the company says prints 15 times faster than competing systems.