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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Bets on Space as Metal 3D Printing's Next Frontier
Nikon's metal AM division is pitching in-orbit 3D printing as core infrastructure for future space stations, building on SLM systems already flying parts for space customers today.
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$800K Australian Project Will 3D Print Biomimetic Teeth That Mimic How Real Jaws Break
Adelaide University, Fusetec, and the AMCRC launched an 18-month, AU$800,000 project to 3D print teeth, jawbone, and soft tissue that fracture like the real thing during dental training.
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America Makes Puts $9M Behind Three Teams to Fix Defense AM Qualification Bottlenecks
America Makes and NCDMM named three winning teams — led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal LLC, and The Barnes Global Advisors — for a $9M, Pentagon-funded push to speed up how defense contractors qualify 3D-printed parts and machines.
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Inside the Oregon Machine Shop Where EOS SLS Printers Have Logged 800,000 Hours of Drone Flight
NW Rapid Manufacturing, an Oregon spinoff of drone-engine maker Northwest UAV, has quietly used three industrial EOS SLS systems to print end-use UAV parts now credited with over 800,000 flight hours for customers like Matternet and AeroVironment.
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From Disney Props to Drone Boats: Haddy 3D Prints the TF-179 Hull With Robotic Arms
St. Petersburg's Haddy — the shop that once printed Disney set pieces and designer furniture — has 3D printed the TF-179 Drone Boat's hull with rail-mounted robotic arms and integrated milling, joining the Ukraine-driven rush toward cheap, rapidly iterated attritable unmanned vessels.
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Chromatic 3D Materials Opens Rocket Propellant Test-Firing Facility at Minnesota's Camp Ripley
Chromatic 3D Materials has leased space at Camp Ripley to build an on-site propellant print lab paired directly with live-fire test infrastructure, collapsing the gap between additive propellant fabrication and validation.
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ICON Opens First of Ten 3D-Printed Army Barracks at Fort Bliss
ICON delivered the first of ten robotically printed Army barracks at Fort Bliss on July 29, the largest robotic-construction deployment in DoD history, printed in 58 days at roughly 9% below conventional cost.
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America Makes Puts $10.5M Behind 25 Teams to Standardize Defense Metal-AM Supplier Qualification
America Makes has awarded $10.5 million to 25 teams to build a standardized qualification pathway for defense metal 3D printing suppliers, expanding its JAQS-SQ network to 31 companies.
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Marines 3D Print a Coast Guard Boat Strainer in Hours During Korea Logistics Exercise
During CJLOTS 26 in Pohang, South Korea, Marine maintainers reverse-engineered and printed a $12 strainer for a $600,000 Coast Guard boat in under half a day, replacing what is normally a 2-3 week parts wait.
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Airbus Qualifies Roboze's ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED for Flight-Ready Aerospace Structural Parts
Airbus has qualified Roboze's ARGO 500 HYPERSPEED platform, printing unmodified ULTEM 9085 filament, to produce flight-ready secondary structural aircraft parts.
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Inside NMSU's DREAM Center: Training K-12 Teachers to Run the Printers
New Mexico State's NSF-funded DREAM Research Center just ran its third annual AMPD workshop, teaching K-12 educators to model, slice and operate 3D printers — and finding that the software, not the hardware, is the real wall.
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From Waste to Furniture: Nagami and Zaha Hadid Architects 3D Print the ECHO Chair in Recycled PETG
Nagami and Zaha Hadid Architects have released the ECHO Chair, a made-to-order seat printed as a single continuous piece via large-format extrusion in recycled PETG, priced from EUR669 to EUR1,231 depending on color.
