Business
The business of printing for profit — pricing, margins, print farms, and the equipment economics that make or break a shop.
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LightForce Hands the CEO Job to a Medtech Closer as 3D-Printed Braces Scale Up
LightForce Orthodontics named Silk Road Medical veteran Erica Rogers CEO on July 16, 2026, moving founder Alfred Griffin to Chairman and Chief Product Officer as its patient-specific 3D-printed brackets push into a ~$10B market.
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SWISSto12 Closes $70M Series C — and Finally Gives Additive Manufacturing a Revenue Number Worth Arguing About
The Swiss firm that 3D prints RF payloads says it did $140M in 2025 revenue, holds $500M+ in contracted orders, has grown at a 110% CAGR since 2022, and hit positive EBITDA in 2026 — rare hard numbers in a sector that usually announces capacity instead of income.
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Würth Additive Group Confirms Closure of Its Additive Manufacturing Business
Würth Group is shutting down its five-year-old Würth Additive Group division, offering only a terse statement and a closing-office email address to explain the end of its AM distribution and Digital Inventory Services business.
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Titanium Recycler IperionX Raises $50M to Expand U.S. Metal-Powder Supply for 3D Printing
IperionX priced a $50M ADS offering to expand its Virginia and Tennessee titanium projects, bolstering a rare domestic source of recycled titanium powder for metal 3D printing.
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Bambu Lab Runs 48-Hour Fundraiser for Venezuela Earthquake Relief, Matching Filament Sales to UN Crisis Relief
Bambu Lab is donating the full MSRP of Venezuela-flag-colored PLA Basic Refill sold July 13-15 to UN Crisis Relief, building on a prior $50,000 LATAM pledge and grassroots maker splint printing after the country's twin earthquakes.
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BigRep SE Delists From Frankfurt, Liquidates Parent as BigRep GmbH Sells to New Owners
BigRep SE's boards sold operating unit BigRep GmbH to three buyers, then delisted the SPAC-listed parent from Frankfurt and began voluntary liquidation, citing financing pressure and weak US traction.
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What a 3D Print Actually Costs: Calculating Cost Per Part
Filament price is only part of the bill. A step-by-step breakdown of material, electricity, machine depreciation, failure rate, and labor costs, with a full worked example calculating the true cost of one printed part.
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EBM Pioneer Zenith Tecnica Changes Hands as Demand Outstrips Its Six-Machine Fleet
New Zealand's Zenith Tecnica, an early Electron Beam Melting shop supplying titanium parts for Air New Zealand, Maxar, and NASA's Psyche mission, has been acquired by a new ownership group planning to expand capacity as revenue grows 490% since 2020.
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Formlabs Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever — and Is Prepping Three New Printers to Follow It Up
Formlabs posted all-time-high sales across hardware, services, and SLS in Q2 2026 on the back of its Fuse X1 launch, and says three more printer platforms are coming within a year.
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Snapmaker Raises Roughly €129M Series C — The Largest Consumer 3D-Printing Round in Two Years
Shenzhen's Snapmaker closed a ¥1 billion (~€129M/$140M) Series C on July 8, 2026, led by Cathay Capital, in what the company calls the largest consumer 3D-printing funding round in two years.
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Venus Aerospace Raises $91M to Scale Its 3D-Printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine
Houston's Venus Aerospace closed a $91M Series B to push its largely 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine from a record 2025 flight test into full production for defense and space customers.
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Velo3D's Biggest Customer Just Bought a Fifth Sapphire XC Metal Printer
Mears Machine Corporation has ordered its fifth Velo3D Sapphire XC metal printer, with options on two more, building what's billed as one of North America's largest independent fleets of the machine.
