Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
Ukraine's GUR says Russia's low-cost Filin cruise missile pairs a carbon and fiberglass airframe and some 3D-printed parts with dozens of Western and Asian electronic components. Here's what the reporting actually supports, and what it says about cheap manufacturing and leaky supply chains.
Read the story →Nikon Advanced Manufacturing will deliver multiple custom two-meter-tall NXG-E-based laser powder bed fusion systems under a Department of War COTA contract, building Tomahawk missile mid-bodies at its Long Beach, California technology center.
NAVSUP's new RFI lists 129 valve, fitting and fan parts it wants suppliers to additively manufacture, asks how to structure incentives for fixed-price contracts, and says Level I/SUBSAFE parts could eventually be on the table.
Mears Machine is adding a sixth Velo3D Sapphire XC that will print only 70-30 copper-nickel. The seawater-resistant alloy has traditionally been cast for marine cooling, condenser and heat exchanger parts, and Mears plans to design, print, machine and inspect them all in-house.
Nike's Zellerfeld-printed Air Works series reaches its halfway mark with a scuba-inspired slip-on from LA designer Masyn, while Mumbai's shoe slides to March 2027, which leaves no November release and shows why tooling-free printing suits tiny local runs.
A newly founded, Chicago-backed development company has bought a Caracol Heron 400 robotic arm printer with a 10-meter-plus rail, aiming to print boat, snowmobile and construction parts in Greenland instead of waiting for them to ship in.
The FY2026-2031 ManTech strategy adds a focus area on technology transition and adoption and envisions secure digital designs sent to certified AM cells. It is a policy framework, not a spending bill, and it offers little in the way of public metrics.
Guangdong Hengtai cleared a RMB 3.837B (about US$576M) filing for 25,000 t/yr of titanium sponge in Maoming. It is not a powder plant and has no commissioning date, but it adds to China's hold on the raw material behind titanium AM feedstock.
LEGO's 5,682-piece Icons Venetian Neighbourhood includes a 3D-printed mini street piano that plays notes when you turn a flower vase. It is the company's second mass-market printed part, and it suggests the Holiday Express Train was not a one-off.
Solukon's new SFM-AT850 depowders LPBF metal parts up to 1,000 kg in a smaller footprint, adds an ultrasonic SFM-AT850-E variant and remote maintenance, and replaces two older machines. Orders open at Formnext 2026, with deliveries by the end of Q3 2027.
Meshy Edit, launched Oct 16, lets you select one part of a high-poly AI model, describe the change in text or reference images, and get a new version with the rest of the geometry untouched. It is aimed squarely at the regenerate-or-repair problem in AI-to-print workflows.
An amsight-led ESA FIRST! consortium with ArianeGroup, ISPTech, APWORKS, Bimo Tech and Fraunhofer IAPT wants to replace PDF-bound qualification of 3D-printed space parts with one reusable digital evidence chain, tested on an Ariane 6 container and a CubeSat propellant tank.
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