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Divergent Raises $290 Million: Beyond the Numbers
Divergent Technologies has raised $290 million in a Series E round, giving the firm a $2.3 billion valuation. The round included $250 million in equity capital and $40 million in…
Lithoz Makes Aluminium Nitride Heat Exchanger
Lithoz has made an Aluminium nitride heat exchanger component. The endeavor forms part of the European Union’s (EU) Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action TRIATHLON project, managed by Delft University of…
Nikon Advanced Manufacturing Partners with the US Navy for the Maritime Industrial Base
Following the recent announcement that Velo3D has partnered with the US Navy for the Maritime Industrial Base (MIB), now Nikon Advanced Manufacturing is doing the same. One Nikon SLM Solutions…
3DPOD 271: 3D Printing at the Mayo Clinic with Dr. Jonathan Morris
Dr. Jonathan Morris is the Executive Medical Director of Immersive and Experiential Learning at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Medical Director of Biomedical and Scientific Visualization and helped…
Caracol Expands Large-Format Additive Manufacturing Production in the US
Caracol has set up further production in the United States. Following in the footsteps of SLM Solutions and others, the large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) company has opened another AM site…
Velo3D and Linde AMT Target CuNi 3D Printing for US Navy Supply Chain
Velo3D‘s (Nasdaq: VELO) resurrection continues, and now the firm is working together with Linde AMT (Linde Advanced Material Technologies) on CuNi for the US Navy and Maritime Industrial Base (MIB)…
Arburg to Leave 3D Printing Industry: Analysis
German injection molding leaders Arburg are leaving the 3D printing market. The company will continue to support its Freeformer systems with spare parts and service, but apart from this, the…
LEGO Unveils New 3D Printed Element
LEGO has been deeply investing in 3D printing for decades now. The company uses additive manufacturing extensively in its operations. Lately, the firm has been releasing 3D printed LEGO parts…
ETH Zurich Develops Rotary LPBF System that Processes Multiple Metals
ETH Zurich researchers have come up with a rotary LPBF system, the RAPTURE, that can process multiple metal materials simultaneously. In their published paper, they explain that the system may…
SwissTo12 Buys Hanwha Phasor’s Antenna Assets and IP
Swiss 3D printing satellite component manufacturer SWISSto12 has bought IP and assets from Hanwha Phasor, a steered antenna manufacturer based in the UK and the US. Phasor had been a…
3DPOD 270: Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO Nikon Advanced Manufacturing
Hamid Zarringhalam rose through the ranks of Nikon‘s precision manufacturing unit. He’s now a Corporate Vice President at Nikon and the CEO of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing and Nikon Ventures. We’re…
Ursa Major to Work With EOS On Hypersonics
Ursa Major plans to buy three AMCM M 450-4 FLX machines, in addition to the two M400 systems and an AMCM M 290-1 FLX that the company already owns. The…
LibWork 3D Prints Residential Home in Japan with Soil & Crane WASP
Construction firm LibWork has 3D printed a home using WASP 3D printers and soil in Japan. The home is roughly 100 m² and was made using a Crane WASP printer….
Pac-Dent Buys Ackuretta
Dental practitioner supply firm Pac-Dent has bought Ackuretta, a chair-side dental 3D printing startup that has a file-to-patient solution in place. Their all-in-one system combines resins, software, and printers with…
HP Dives Deeper Into Orthopedic 3D Printing at AOPA 2025 With New PA 11
HP is announcing that it will have a new generation of PA 11. With the 3D HR PA 11 Gen2 material, the company will offer up to 80% material reusability,…
Understanding The Risks of Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is an emergent practice where people use AI tools and Large Language Model (LLM) Chatbots to write code. An experienced developer could accelerate their work considerably through vibe…
3DPOD 269: AM in Japan, Software for AM, and more with Peter Rogers, Layered Ltd.
Peter Rogers is Australian but has worked in Japan since 2009. He has held roles at a Japanese 3D Printing firm, at Velo3D, and at Autodesk. Today, he consults for…
ORNL Continues Developing DuAlumin-3D
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has reported progress with DuAlumin-3D. The team has said that, “DuAlumin-3D outperforms traditional alloys, which are prone to cracking during laser powder bed fusion processing,…
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: A Foxconn in the Henhouse, Part 5
In this series, we’ve looked at how we came to be deluded and how binder jet technology could grow. We’ve explored the players in the industry and where binder jet…
Korean 3D Printing Materials Developer Graphy Goes Public
Korean vat polymerization materials developer Graphy, founded in 2017, has gone public. Graphy develops innovative resins for OEMs and offers products such as shape memory resins and directly 3D printed…
The Creality IPO Effects & Scenarios
Creality is slated to go public on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The value-engineered desktop Material Extrusion maker has branched out. It now makes sophisticated K1 and K2 desktop systems,…
Bambu Lab Launches H2S at $1,249 — Exploring the Strategy Behind Its Price and Positioning
Bambu Lab has launched the H2S, a single-nozzle 340×320×340 mm printer that starts at $1249. The printer has twice the build volume of the X1C and is 30% faster. Billed…
3DPOD 268: AM for IndyCar with Kory Drake, Arrow McLaren
Kory Drake grew up surrounded by the fumes of motor oil and gasoline. With a family steeped in racing and race engineering, he naturally ended up working for racing teams….
The Business Case for Binder Jet in an Uncertain World: Changes, Part 4
In rough seas, binder jet as a market is underpinned by a collection of firms, some large and small. We looked at their potential staying power, the applications and parts,…
