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The practical additive manufacturing news brief. What matters, what's hype, and what it means for builders.

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  1. -3 d.

    ORNL Folds Composites Flat, and a Sub Gets Its Parts in Four Weeks

    Oak Ridge prints composites onto fabric and folds them into shape — claiming a 90% cost cut. Plus sand binder jetting for small foundries, Dow's tougher PLA, metal repair quadrupling bridge life, QinetiQ rescuing a Royal Navy sub, and a consumer 'metal laser printer' that sets off every alarm we own.

    21 min

  2. 20. juni

    Divergent's 64-Machine Bet and the Defense AM Land Grab

    Divergent unveils a twelve-laser metal printer and a defense super-factory, Beehive drops $50M on EOS machines, and the C-17 microvanes go fleet-wide. Plus Bambu's 'safe' filament, an open-source revolt against the cloud, and Nano Dimension quietly walking out of the room.

    19 min

  3. 12. juni

    TDK Buys ECAM, the Air Force Prints 222 Planes' Worth of Vanes

    TDK drops up to $400M on electrochemical metal printing for AI data centers, the US Air Force commits to fleet-wide 3D printed microvanes, and a tower-crane concrete printer makes some very tall promises. Plus a yeast-based building material, a high-temp aluminum, and the return of Thingiverse.

    22 min

  4. 5. juni

    States Try to Code Guns Out of Your Printer

    New York's mandatory gun-blocking software for 3D printers raises huge feasibility and free-speech questions, with California close behind. Plus Bambu's $469 large-format A2L, Sandvik exits metal AM, Creality's billion-dollar IPO, Prusa's open-source ColorMix, and a Pentagon volcanic-fiber boat fantasy.

    15 min

  5. 29. mai

    Stratasys Buys Markforged for a Song, and a $185K Metal Printer

    Alex and Jordan dig into the biggest AM deal of the year—Stratasys snapping up Markforged for just $42.5 million, minus the metal binder jet line. They also unpack a new dual-laser metal printer priced suspiciously low, Norsk Titanium's first real production contract with Northrop Grumman, and whether an AI that fixes prints mid-job is ready for your garage.

    12 min
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