Matt Kremenetsky
Phillips Federal Becomes Exclusive Phase3D Reseller for North American Defense Market
Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force…
DOE Awards $50M to Coreshell Technologies & AM Batteries for Domestic Anode Production
One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need…
3D Printed Propulsion Specialist Ursa Major Plans to Go Public via SPAC in Q1 2027
The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) boom was devastating for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Peaking in 2021 — and, of course, subsuming companies from industries far beyond AM —…
South Korea’s Lincsolution Announces AM Defense Hub as Nation is Caught in US-China Trade War
In my most recent post about RIMPAC, I noted that US military joint exercises appear to be the latest function of the US government to be leveraged by the Trump…
Founded After Class: Unlayered 3D Co-Founders Philip Pounds & Alex Stedman on Starting a 5-Axis Desktop OEM in College
When he showed up on Google Meet for our interview, I could see that Philip Pounds, co-founder of Unlayered 3D, was seated shotgun in a moving car. I wasn’t sure…
More RIMPAC Expeditionary AM, This Time With SPEE3D
In my most recent post about the 2026 edition of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a biannual exhibition that constitutes the world’s largest joint maritime exercise, I focused on the…
Oqton’s 3D Printing Software Wins ASTRO-InSPIRE’s 2nd Annual Tech Challenge
Rejoice, ye process engineers! Your raised concerns do not go in vain. Additive manufacturing (AM) materials qualification is genuinely becoming the central focal point for commercialization efforts in the industry’s…
Haddy’s Continued Attention to 3D Printed Drone Boats Shows Why It’s Becoming a Legit Dual-Use Contender
At some point last year, I stumbled across what has been, for me, the most valuable explanation of what ‘dual-use’ means, in this War on the Rocks article from January 2025, whose…
Apple Opens New US Advanced Manufacturing Center for Second Year in a Row
The US added 5,000 manufacturing jobs in July, although in its article on the subject, Wall Street Journal notes that there are still (slightly) fewer manufacturing workers in the US…
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…
