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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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JuggerBot's H6-106 Prints Thermosets and Thermoplastics in One Machine — a $4M AFRL Bet on Hybrid AM
Under the AFRL-funded Project ACME, Youngstown's JuggerBot 3D is scaling the H6-106 — a large-format system that runs pellet-fed thermoplastic extrusion and two-part thermoset dispensing inside one heated chamber to build aerospace tooling.
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Sacramento's First Permitted 3D-Printed Home Goes Up in 12 Days of Printing
RIC Robotics and Sacramento builder K4k Construction completed the city's first permitted 3D-printed building, a 1,200 sq ft ADU whose wall system was printed in 12 days — a marker of autonomous construction crossing from demo to occupied home.
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A 3D Printed Lattice Cushion With a Medicare Code: Kalogon's Verro and the Reimbursement Barrier
Kalogon's new Verro line pairs a 3D printed variable-density elastomer lattice wheelchair cushion with something far rarer than clever geometry — Medicare code E2609, the thing that decides whether additive manufacturing reaches patients or just trade-show booths.
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Pratt & Whitney Lines Up Two Additive Partners to 3D Print Full-Scale F135 Engine Structures
At Farnborough 2026, Pratt & Whitney signed two additive deals for the F-35's F135 engine — GKN printing a full-scale engine case with laser wire DED in Norway, and Safran Aero Boosters plus BMT Aerospace tackling supply-constrained titanium parts in Belgium.
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Ceramic 3D Printing's Quiet Boom: Lithoz Posts 40% Materials Growth as Print Farms, Implants, and Turbine Cores Scale
Lithoz reports a 40% jump in ceramic-materials revenue for H1 2026 and raises its full-year outlook, driven by print farms, resorbable implants, and Safran's adoption of LCM silica cores for single-crystal turbine blades.
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India's Skyroot Reaches Orbit on 3D-Printed Engines: Inside the Restartable Raman-1
Skyroot's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit, riding a fourth stage powered by a cluster of 3D-printed, vacuum-restartable Raman-1 engines that cut build time from months to days.
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The Navy Just Cleared a 3D-Printed Copper-Nickel Valve for Submarine Duty — A Material Almost Nobody Prints
VACCO delivered a laser-powder-bed-fusion copper-nickel pressure valve cleared for US Navy submarine installation — and a second, independent supply chain is doing the same thing, which says something about where casting is losing.
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The Army Corps Is Printing Oyster Reefs Out of Dredged Mud in Mobile Bay
USACE deployed six 3D-printed reef domes off Coden, Alabama — printed from sediment dredged out of a disposal facility, with a built-in experiment pitting pure-sediment domes against sediment-plus-shell.
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RIC Robotics' Autonomous Printers Break Ground on One of the Largest 3D-Printed Housing Communities in the US
Denver's RIC Robotics has deployed two autonomous printing systems at Cleora, a 106-home Colorado community where 65+ houses will be robotically printed alongside the county's first 3D-printed metro district.
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EFF Warns Other States Not to Repeat New York's 3D Printer 'Censorware' Mandate
A July 14 EFF analysis dissects New York's first-in-the-nation law forcing 3D printers and CNC machines to run firearms-blueprint detection before printing, and urges other states not to copy it.
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The AM Market Hit $4.35 Billion in a Single Quarter — and Defense Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
AM Research logged $4.35B for Q1 2026, up 13.1% year over year — but the analyst credits defense procurement and supply chain reshoring, the segment figures don't sum to the total, and the methodology sits behind a $795 paywall.
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USS Essex Turns Onboard 3D Printers Into a Supply-Chain Workaround During RIMPAC 2026
Amid the largest RIMPAC exercise on record, the amphibious assault ship USS Essex is printing metal and polymer replacement parts at sea — including components no manufacturer still makes — to skip weeks-long resupply waits.
