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A routine Guangming District filing for a temporary construction entrance signals Bambu Lab's sprawling Shenzhen manufacturing complex is finally shifting from land deals to ground-breaking.
Read the story →Two days after filing its S-1, Tennessee-based metal-powder producer Amaero postponed a $52.6M Nasdaq listing under ticker AMRO, citing adverse market conditions and giving no new timetable.
Massivit 3D's RapidWings service, which prints large-format aerospace tooling in days instead of months, is launching in North America through a partnership with Oregon manufacturer Artek.
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab's X1, P1 and A1 printers willfully infringed four Stratasys patents on prime-tower purging and bed leveling, awarding $27.6 million — with a second, potentially bigger trial still to come.
VoxelMatters reports Beamit's Fornovo plant installed the first EOS M4 ONYX in EMEA and renewed NADCAP, months after a Parma court opened liquidation and Rainshow Industries bought the aerospace unit.
An East Texas jury found four Bambu Lab entities willfully infringed four Stratasys FDM patents and awarded about $27.6M in past damages; Bambu will seek post-trial review and appeal, and the second suit has no trial date.
Norwegian defense group KONGSBERG is adding an AMCM M 4K and an AMCM M 290-2 1kW multi-laser metal printer to print demonstrator hardware and flyaway parts, with EOS's Additive Minds unit handling the integration.
Cold-spray metal printing pioneer SPEE3D named 30-year aerospace/defense veteran Bryan O'Connor as Global CEO while co-founder Byron Kennedy relocates to the US to personally drive growth in the company's largest market.
Bechtle has acquired Kaut-Bullinger's entire HP 3D-printing operation in Germany and Austria, becoming Germany's largest HP additive manufacturing partner as the family-owned reseller exits the sector for good.
Swedish electron-beam metal printer maker Freemelt is splitting into machine sales and a new component-manufacturing arm, betting that customers now want finished parts as much as printers — a move that expands its claimed addressable market roughly twentyfold.
Impossible Objects has closed a $40 million Series B led by Inflection Equity to scale production of its CBAM 25 composite 3D printer, which the company says prints 15 times faster than competing systems.
Printreon's new Patreon-style beta lets vetted 3D designers sell STL/3MF/OBJ files through tiered subscriptions with Stripe payouts, taking a 10% cut of revenue.
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