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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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India's Skyroot Reaches Orbit on 3D-Printed Engines: Inside the Restartable Raman-1
Skyroot's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit, riding a fourth stage powered by a cluster of 3D-printed, vacuum-restartable Raman-1 engines that cut build time from months to days.
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The Navy Just Cleared a 3D-Printed Copper-Nickel Valve for Submarine Duty — A Material Almost Nobody Prints
VACCO delivered a laser-powder-bed-fusion copper-nickel pressure valve cleared for US Navy submarine installation — and a second, independent supply chain is doing the same thing, which says something about where casting is losing.
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The Army Corps Is Printing Oyster Reefs Out of Dredged Mud in Mobile Bay
USACE deployed six 3D-printed reef domes off Coden, Alabama — printed from sediment dredged out of a disposal facility, with a built-in experiment pitting pure-sediment domes against sediment-plus-shell.
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RIC Robotics' Autonomous Printers Break Ground on One of the Largest 3D-Printed Housing Communities in the US
Denver's RIC Robotics has deployed two autonomous printing systems at Cleora, a 106-home Colorado community where 65+ houses will be robotically printed alongside the county's first 3D-printed metro district.
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EFF Warns Other States Not to Repeat New York's 3D Printer 'Censorware' Mandate
A July 14 EFF analysis dissects New York's first-in-the-nation law forcing 3D printers and CNC machines to run firearms-blueprint detection before printing, and urges other states not to copy it.
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The AM Market Hit $4.35 Billion in a Single Quarter — and Defense Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
AM Research logged $4.35B for Q1 2026, up 13.1% year over year — but the analyst credits defense procurement and supply chain reshoring, the segment figures don't sum to the total, and the methodology sits behind a $795 paywall.
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USS Essex Turns Onboard 3D Printers Into a Supply-Chain Workaround During RIMPAC 2026
Amid the largest RIMPAC exercise on record, the amphibious assault ship USS Essex is printing metal and polymer replacement parts at sea — including components no manufacturer still makes — to skip weeks-long resupply waits.
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Adidas Launches BB.01, Its First 3D-Printed Basketball Shoe, in a 169-Pair Global Drop
Adidas Basketball's $250 BB.01 pairs a 3D-printed lattice upper and midsole with a padded bootie, launching Project: R.A.P. in a scarcity-driven run of just 169 pairs worldwide.
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A 22-Year-Old Self-Taught Engineer Built a Same-Day, 3D-Printed Denture Lab on Wheels
Remote Area Medical's Mobile Digital Denture Lab uses 3D printing to turn a three-month denture wait into a 2-3 hour, same-day fitting — built in large part by a 22-year-old self-taught dental technology manager.
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Phillips Corporation Rebrands Its Additive-Hybrid Unit as It Bets on Blended Manufacturing
Phillips Corporation folded its Additive Hybrid division into a new Advanced Manufacturing Solutions unit, betting that hybrid additive-subtractive, standalone AM, large-format robotic metal printing, and field-deployable manufacturing gear are converging into one business.
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The US Navy Just Welded and Milled a Metal Part Aboard a Warship Mid-Exercise
During RIMPAC 2026, Phillips Corporation put a containerized Haas CNC + Meltio wire-laser metal deposition system aboard USS Essex to test whether sailors can fabricate replacement parts at sea instead of waiting on the supply chain.
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Auxilium Bioprints Kidney and Liver Tissue Aboard the ISS for the First Time
Auxilium Biotechnologies' AMP-1 platform produced kidney and liver tissue in orbit for the first time, alongside cartilage and 20-plus nerve-repair implants, during a single ISS mission.
