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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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UMaine's 3Dirigo X: A 40-Knot, 30-Foot 3D-Printed Boat Signals a Manufacturing Leap
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."
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SPEE3D's Cold-Spray Metal Printer Goes to Sea for the First Time at RIMPAC 2026
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.
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DOE Backs Coreshell and AM Batteries With $50M to Localize Battery Anode Manufacturing
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.
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Additive Assurance Partners With NTT Data's XAM to Bring Real-Time Metal-AM Monitoring to Japan
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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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.
