Matt Kremenetsky
Hadrian Valued at $7.9B After Massive $1.4B Series D Funding Round
The industrial underpinnings of US military readiness have been hampered by an overcommitment to weapons systems whose long-term value is increasingly questionable. This isn’t so much a generational problem as…
AMCM’s Expanded Production Capacity Arrives Just in Time for Western Infrastructure Needs
The geography of the manufacturing sites that produce 3D printers is a bit of a blindspot for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Industry stakeholders in the West have been forced…
Hyundai & Kia Open Additive Manufacturing Solution Center in South Korea
Hyundai Motor Group (which, in addition to owning Hyundai, holds a large ownership stake in Kia) maintains an R&D center in Hwaseong, South Korea called Namyang, the company’s largest such…
Valiant Shield & RIMPAC ’26, Pt. 2: 3D Printed Drone Boats, and 3D Printing Drones on Boats
Representatives of the US Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center trained Marines to use 3D printing for repair electronics components repair at the recent Valiant Shield event in the Indo-Pacific. Not long after,…
Kupros Launches Cu29 V2, Announces Process for Embedded Electronics from Desktop FFF & FDM
In addition to its more traditional uses, the centrality of copper to an unusually large number of high-growth industries has led more than a few observers to argue that it…
Chinese 3D Printer OEM Targeting Market for Tiny Metal Parts Closes Pre-Series A Round
Earlier in the year, a consortium that includes China’s BLT announced a major breakthrough in using a high-precision, liquid metal UV 3D printing process to upgrade the hinge for Chinese…
NUWC Keyport Becomes First Naval Warfare Center to Receive Official Approval for Metal AM Process
US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has approved the PBF process for 17-4PH stainless steel demonstrated by Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Keyport, located in Washington state (one of ten…
The Barnes Global Advisors Lands BPMI Metal AM Database Contract
Other than workforce development, materials qualification is perhaps the greatest existing barrier to the scale-up of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Moreover, improving access to data on metals qualified for the…
Ricoh USA Sells 3D for Healthcare Spinout to Former VP and GM, Rebrands as Myrava
Japanese companies are really good at internal diversification and spin-outs, and this seems to be true even in cases involving foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinationals. Ricoh USA recently demonstrated this…
Phase3D Puts Its ISM Hardware in the Hands of AM’s Future Workforce with DEHub Partnership
The US additive manufacturing (AM) industry faces a turning point in terms of its approach to R&D. As has been the case for aggregate R&D in the US economy at…
DEVCOM Armaments Center Demonstrates Remote 3D Printing of Electronics at Valiant Shield 2026
The US Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, has become one of the US military’s most important hubs for drone R&D. At the recent Valiant…
Polish Electronics 3D Printing OEM XTPL Sells 10 More Printhead Modules to First Chinese Customer
Smartphones, laptops, and all other such devices are only getting more expensive. As evidenced by Apple’s cautioning of higher prices for this year’s new iPhone line, the problem is largely…
Electroninks’ EMI Shielding Materials Give it an Expanded Presence in Japan
In the current global economic context, which is being shaped primarily by national leaders trying out new forms of geopolitical leverage on a daily basis, advanced manufacturing partnerships between American…
Caracol to Build Large-Format 3D Printing Hub in Milan With Designtech & LAMÁQUINA
In the 1990 classic in economic strategy, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, business theorist Michael Porter wrote, “Most commentators on the Italian economy have persistently underestimated Italy, because they have…
Australian OEM AML3D Closes Record Year, Eyes $54M Global Sales Pipeline
The US Department of Defense (DoD) finally seems to be implementing a strategy it has spent years refining, centered on bringing its international allies and partners more into the fold…
Continuum Powders & AM Research White Paper Argues that Circular Economics is Central to Scaling Metal AM
Pretty much everyone is aware that, over the last several decades, Western nations have continuously ceded control over manufacturing supply chains to China. It has been less widely appreciated that…
Product Market Fit: Nikon Advanced Manufacturing CEO Hamid Zarringhalam on How Defense Demand is Pushing Metal AM to Scale
After years in which the additive manufacturing (AM) industry gained a reputation for its hype outpacing its performance, an interesting development has emerged recently. In certain market segments, at least,…
Largest Funding Round to Date for AI-Powered 3D Image Generation: Meshy Closes Series B Worth Nearly $400M
Overall, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry has stayed impressively restrained in terms of trying to leverage any potential coattail hype from the AI boom. Perhaps the leading enterprises left standing…
RIC Robotics Collaborates with K4k Construction on 3D Printed ADU in Sacramento
In 2024, RIC Robotics, the additive construction (AC) firm based in Denver, completed the build of an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Walnut, California, which was apparently an industry first….
Beehive Industries Invests $70M in Ohio to Support Its Advanced Manufacturing Buildup for Propulsion
Beehive Industries and the state of Ohio have each been killing it in the metal 3D printing game. Naturally then, it was only logical for Beehive and Ohio to combine…
How the US-China Trade War is Changing the 3D Printing Market
Western governments don’t really have a coherent view on how to engage China on trade, and how could they? They vacillate between intimate economic cooperation and antagonistic bluster, depending on…
3YOURMIND Demonstrates that Distributed 3D Printing is Ready at AM Village 2026
Given that additive manufacturing (AM) is so closely adhering to the classic industrialization blueprint whereby military adoption pushes a new technology to commercialization, I’ve thought for a long time that…
NASA Funds Phase3D Research Project to Advance In-Situ Monitoring for Metal AM
Garbage in, garbage out: that cliche is currently associated most often with AI, but it really refers to the universal principle whereby a final outcome is only as useful as…
RIC Robotics Begins Work on Colorado Community, Including Dozens of 3D Printed Homes
Despite years of increasing public focus on the issue of affordable housing, it wasn’t until the end of last year that US federal policymakers introduced a comprehensive bill to address…
