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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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ORNL and Mazak Debut a Hybrid Metal Printer That Welds and Machines in One Line at IMTS 2026
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mazak unveiled the VC-Ez WAAM platform at IMTS 2026, fusing Fronius wire-arc metal printing with a five-axis machining center for structural repairs, tooling and near-net-shape parts.
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Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026 Draws Record 34,202 Visitors, Up 65% as China's AM Scene Expands
Formnext Asia Shenzhen's 2026 edition pulled a record 34,202 visitors from 113 countries and 330 exhibitors, up 65% year over year, with new programming on robotics, AI-cooling, and 3D-printed footwear.
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eSUN's iSUN3D Brings Resin-Printed Shoes to MICAM Milano With a One-Part Elastic Resin
iSUN3D, a division of filament maker eSUN, is showing 3D printed footwear at MICAM Milano built with FlexOne, a single-component elastic resin designed to make printed shoes commercially scalable.
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Apple's iPhone Duo Ships With a 3D-Printed Titanium Hinge Cover
Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo hides a 3D-printed, 100 percent recycled Grade 5 titanium hinge cover made from more than 100 components with a micro-blasted finish — another high-profile win for metal additive manufacturing in consumer electronics.
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America Makes Puts $13.2M Behind EWI's INSITE Project to Fix Metal 3D Printing's Quality-Check Bottleneck
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.
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GKN Aerospace Flies UAV Demonstrator With ITAR-Free 3D-Printed Engine
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.
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Isar Aerospace Reaches Orbit on Second Flight — With 3D-Printed EOS/AMCM Rocket Engines
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.
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'Necroprinting' Wins an Ig Nobel: McGill's Mosquito-Proboscis Nozzle Prints 20-Micron Lines Finer Than Any Commercial Tip
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.
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Europe's Largest 3D-Printed Housing Project Welcomes Its First Residents in Denmark
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.
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European Neurosurgeons Bring 3D Printing In-House
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.
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IperionX Lands Second Army Task Order to Scale Domestic Titanium Fastener Production
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.
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80 Printers, One Drone Farm: Quantum Cyber Stands Up a Connecticut Production Line
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.
