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The Frankenservice Part 2: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
This series of articles delves into a thought experiment. What if we let go of using a few machines very optimally, but instead use lots of different machines to meet…
Printing Money Episode 42: Q2 2026 Public Markets 3D Printing Earnings Analysis with Troy Jensen, Cantor
Welcome to Printing Money Episode 42. Troy Jensen (Managing Director, Cantor) returns, joining Danny Piper (Managing Partner, NewCap) to review Q2 2026 publicly traded 3DP/AM company earnings reports. Troy’s quarterly…
SPEE3D Appoints New Global CEO to Support Expanded US Focus
A couple of years ago, in the title of an interview I did with the CEO of SPEE3D, Byron Kennedy, I referred to SPEE3D as “the most American 3D printing…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 12, 2026: Rebranding, Cybersecurity, Project Call, & More
We’ve got a lot of business news from ATLIX to start off this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, with a new identify for its additive manufacturing (AM) portfolio and some…
Apple’s 3D Printed Hinge Cover & the Inauguration of the Ternus Era
Marc Andreessen notwithstanding, it turns out that hardware is, in fact, eating the world. Perhaps after being starved for so long, the hardware side of tech innovation is now overcompensating,…
$51 Million Revenue VMP Wants to Become a Leading Additive Manufacturing Metal Powder Producer
Chinese powder producers have traditionally had little impact on the additive manufacturing market. Typically, they offer low-cost powders without much in the way of settings or application support. But China’s…
The Exploration Company Raises $450M to Rival SpaceX
The space industry is currently worth about $650 billion globally, growing nearly 50 percent since 2020, which is certainly impressive. But over the next decade, the total market opportunity in…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 10, 2026: Tax Credits, Polymer Research, Microneedles, & More
We’re starting off this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs with a little business from Axtra3D and Beehive Industries, before moving on to a scientific collaboration agreement between Roboze and a…
Arridex Expands 3D Printing Network to Ghana
Nigeria-based Arridex has deep experience in oil and gas additive manufacturing. Previously known as RusselSmith, the firm has in-house metal and polymer additive technology. The company is making 3D printed…
Silencer Market Set to Test Metal Additive’s Readiness for Production Prime Time With Enormous Market Expansion
Throughout the history of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, there are only a couple of really interesting case studies in which we see a market significantly disrupted and revolutionized by AM….
Application Focus Promises Success but Demands Risk
This is Part II of a five-part series by AMPOWER, Gold Sponsor of Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) 2027. For most of this industry’s history, the commercial task was to sell…
The Frankenservice Part 1: Print the Rainbow
So far, most service bureaus and manufacturing companies stick to what they know. Not only for OCD reasons, but gleaming lines of identical LPBF machines are also arrayed on impossibly…
QTREX Takes Nano Dimension’s AME Technology Into Israeli Defense
A 3D printing technology that Nano Dimension sold just five months ago is now being installed inside one of Israel’s largest defense companies. QTREX Quantum (Nasdaq: QTEX) bought Nano Dimension’s…
XTPL Calls Shareholder Meeting to Vote on Strategic Investment from Taiwanese Fund
Nothing else in the global economy quite compares to Taiwan’s share of the global semiconductor market. There are other cases of geographic concentration, involving critical materials and components, where certain…
Quickparts Builds a Four-Country 3D Printing Network for Space and Defense
For manufacturers trying to win more space and defense work, adding 3D printers is only part of the challenge. They also need to make the same parts to the same…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 3, 2026: Acquisition, Trade Secrets, Ankle Implants, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with a partnership regarding additive manufacturing quality software. Then we’ll move on to a defense acquisition and a trade secrets misappropriation case….
3D Printing Financials: AML3D Revenue Jumps 70% as U.S. Defense Business Grows
AML3D’s (ASX: AL3) growing U.S. defense business helped push revenue to a record for the financial year that ran from July 2025 through June 2026. The Australian metal 3D printing…
Additive Economics 101, Part 3: Your World in a Teacup
In a previous example, we looked at Cathy’s 3D printed braces business. She dropped $350,000 on machines and equipment, and the tiniest tiny difference in packing density collapsed her business….
AM Pulse Asia: Consumer Metal AM, Nuclear Parts and Rockets Push New Ground
The second half of August produced financing milestones, facility openings, and qualification results across Asia-Pacific additive manufacturing. Rongsu Technology closed a CNY 100 million Series A+ and launched a consumer…
3D Printing Financials: New Money Flows Into Medical, Industrial and AI 3D
Money continued to move into 3D printing in the second half of August. Hike Medical raised $22.5 million as it grows its 3D printed custom medical device business. Swiss additive…
3D Printing Financials: 6K Additive Sales Rise as Aerospace and Defense Demand Grows
6K Additive (ASX: 6KA) grew rapidly in the first half of 2026 as demand for its metal powders increased, particularly from aerospace and defense customers. The newly public company also…
The Formlabs Shuffle
For the latest development on 8/31/26, please see an update at the end of this article. Formlabs is doing a management shuffle, pointing the firm even more surely towards an…
3D Printing Financials: Aerospace and Defense Help Materialise Manufacturing Rebound
Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand, and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment…
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…
