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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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Entry-Level Printers Now Earn 49% of 3D Printer Revenue as Q2 2026 Sales Jump 31%, CONTEXT Says
CONTEXT's Q2 2026 figures show 3D printer hardware revenue up 31%. Sub-$2,500 machines now bring in 49% of trailing-year revenue, and four Shenzhen vendors ship 87% of those units, while professional-class sales shrink and the analyst firm warns of saturation.
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UpNano's 3D Adaptive Resolution Reshapes the 2PP Voxel to Kill the Staircase on Freeform Optics
UpNano's new 3D Adaptive Resolution controls the two-photon polymerization voxel in X, Y and Z, and the company claims it prints micro-optics in seconds with Sq 3 nm surface roughness and better than 20 nm shape accuracy for silicon photonics and co-packaged optics.
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America Makes Names Northrop Grumman and Fastech to Lead $12.4M MIAMI Push to Swap Legacy Alloys for Metal AM Materials
America Makes picked Northrop Grumman and Fastech to lead its $12.4M MIAMI project, which will test whether printed metals can replace legacy alloys in defense parts. Only two teams were named, although the call expected three, and the award brings 2026 defense AM qualification funding to nearly $32M.
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Scan, Redesign, Print, Certify: Plane Support Wins CASA Approval for 3D Printed Bell 214B Cabin Ducting
After almost two years of work with type certificate holder McDermott Aviation, Plane Support has CASA approval to additively manufacture cabin air-conditioning ducting for the firefighting Bell 214B, using a scan, reverse-engineer and redesign workflow built around a Markforged FX10.
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PharmaTher Plans Up to 50 CraftMake Pharmaceutical 3D Printer Placements Across North America
PharmaTher aims to place up to 50 CraftMake pharmaceutical 3D printers in North American pharmacies and a GMP manufacturer within 12 months, starting with PD Labs, while renaming its platform M3DICINES and targeting a 2028 rare pediatric NDA.
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A Sub's Torpedo Tube Launched an ROV Through a $1,000 3D-Printed Housing
Sailors on USS Pasadena ran a Blueye X3 ROV out of a flooded torpedo tube using a Form 4L-printed Rigid 10K housing, for under $1,000 instead of the roughly $200,000 a fiber optic penetrator alteration typically costs.
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Airless 3D-Printed UGV Wheels Move From Combat Trials to Series Production in Ukraine
After winter combat missions with two Ukrainian units, Print&Live UA and iSCALE 3D are scaling up large-format printed airless wheels for ground robots: about EUR 680 a set, against US$3,000-4,000 for imported equivalents.
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IOT and VisionLab Put Light-Printed Progressive Lenses on Sale in Spain
Spanish optics firm IOT and retailer VisionLab are now selling progressive lenses made in a single flash of light with IOT's Light-Form process, the first commercial use of the technology, which IOT says uses no manufacturing water, 90% less energy and produces 76% less waste than grinding and polishing.
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AMPOWER: 5.2 Million Desktop 3D Printers Sold in 2025, and China Makes 94% of Them
Desktop printer sales hit 5.2 million units in 2025, up 34%. AMPOWER's study finds 94% of them were built in China, and cheap Shenzhen machines are now changing the economics of factory floors.
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MX3D Becomes the First Facility Certified at DNV's Highest Level for Wire-Arc Metal Printing
Amsterdam's MX3D has received a DNV Certificate of Qualification at AMC3, the classification society's top additive manufacturing tier, which DNV says makes it the first company worldwide certified at that level for wire-arc (DED-Arc/WAAM) printing.
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BMF Takes Its Desktop microArch S150 Micro-Precision Printer to Formnext Europe
Boston Micro Fabrication will show the 25-micron microArch S150 to a European audience for the first time at Formnext Frankfurt in November, ten years after its founding and a few months after a change at the top.
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Skoda Puts Ten Official Car Accessories on Printables as Free Files, With a Non-Commercial Licence
Skoda Auto has published ten free, printable interior accessories for the Epiq, Peaq and Fabia IV on Printables, but the licence bars selling the printed parts without written consent.
