Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
America Makes awarded EWI $13.2M for a three-year project combining real-time build monitoring with AI-assisted inspection to speed up quality verification for metal AM parts destined for defense certification.
Read the story →GKN Aerospace's EUR13.6M Project Otto pairs a Swedish FMV-backed UAV demonstrator with a 3D-printed propulsion system built to carry no ITAR-controlled parts, targeting first flight by early 2027.
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit on September 5, 2026, powered by Aquila engines whose thrust chambers are additively manufactured on a custom AMCM M 450 / EOS M 290 metal-printing setup.
A McGill/Drexel team took the 2026 Ig Nobel Technology Prize for fitting a dead mosquito's proboscis onto a standard dispense tip and extruding 20-micron bioink lines, about 250% finer than commercial nozzles, biodegradable and reusable.
Denmark's 36-unit Skovsporet development — printed with COBOD's BOD3 and finishing its last building at roughly one apartment per day — has moved in its first student tenants under the country's subsidized-housing cost cap.
A five-year longitudinal survey of European neurosurgery departments shows outsourced 3D printing collapsing to zero while hospitals start fabricating functional implants, not just anatomical models, in-house.
IperionX won a second US Army task order — up to $25.4M — to expand its Virginia powder-to-part titanium line, aiming to produce fasteners and track pins domestically instead of importing them.
Quantum Cyber has installed 80 3D printers in a 50,000-sq-ft Bridgeport, CT facility to mass-produce structural drone parts in PETG and a patent-pending EMP-hardened composite filament.
UMaine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center launched the 3Dirigo X, a 30-foot printed vessel nearing 40 knots offshore, after boosting its print rate 25x en route to a 1,000 lbs/hour "Factory of the Future."
A joint US-Canadian team installed SPEE3D's XSPEE3D cold-spray printer aboard the support ship MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, printing 8 of 32 mission-critical metal parts underway in the first-ever shipboard deployment of the technology.
DOE is putting $50M behind two additive-manufacturing battery startups to build domestic, Chinese-mineral-free anode production using silicon chemistry and roll-to-roll dry coating.
Australian firm Additive Assurance has signed NTT Data XAM Technologies, Japan's first EOS distributor since 1993, to bring real-time AMiRIS quality monitoring to the country's installed base of metal laser powder bed fusion machines.
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