Matt Kremenetsky
50,000 Orders and Counting: EPlus3D & Chinese AM Services Provider Are Scaling Liquid Cooling Solutions for AI Servers
An under-appreciated story driving the additive manufacturing (AM) industry this year has been the divergence between what’s driving the market in China and what’s driving it everywhere else. Let’s start…
Austrian 3D Printed Drone Startup DropForce is Selling Distributed Production
Investors couldn’t stop throwing money at the drone market in 2025, with total investments in the industry setting a record, coming in at just under $4 billion. If anything, though,…
Domestic Consumption is Still the Biggest Problem for Chinese Advanced Manufacturing
At China’s inaugural National Advanced Manufacturing Conference (NAMC) that was held last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that China aims to use advanced manufacturing to “enhance the autonomy and…
With Its Latest $200M Round, ICON May Be Running Away With the 3D Printed Construction Market
I used to view ICON, the Austin-based additive construction (AC) firm, as one of a handful of companies that could realistically consider itself the leader of the 3D printed construction…
Can India’s AM Push Help Make it a Viable Supplement to China?
Diversifying manufacturing supply chains to locales outside of China has nothing to do with actually cultivating “substitutes” to the Chinese economy. The real stakes are these: China is an irreplaceable…
ASTRO America Leads $9M AFRL CRADA to Advance 3D Printed Missile Production
The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) model for establishing private-public partnerships has started to gain traction in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry over the last couple of years. In…
Solid Rocket Motors: the First Big Scaling Test for AM in the US Defense Sector
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has become obsessed with the opportunity for drones, and there’s certainly good reason for that. But before drones, the big focal point in AM for…
How the EU is Banking on AM to Advance in the Space Race
On September 5, German space startup Isar Aerospace achieved a major milestone, for its own reputation and for the entire space industry in the European Union (EU), when it executed…
Why the AM Industry Should Pay Attention to Schneider Electric’s $22.6B PTC Acquisition
By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the…
How Does Nike’s 3D Printing Approach Fit Into Its Restructuring Plan?
Shares of Nike stock hit all-time highs in late 2021 but have cratered in the years following, with the company losing nearly 80 percent of its market cap since peaking….
ADDMAN to Buy Up to $10.8M in Nickel 718 Powder from 6K Additive Over 30 Months
After years of buildup, we’re finally starting to see what the US metal additive manufacturing (AM) market could look like at scale. To be sure, it’s still not quite there,…
South Korea’s Lincsolution Lands Hanwha Defense Deal as Hanwha Invests Billions in US
I recently wrote about how the South Korean additive manufacturing (AM) firm Lincsolution is building an aerospace and defense hub, part of the company’s construction of “the largest AM facility in…
AM Demand Signals: Global Grid Resilience, Part 2
The nature of the AI boom seems no clearer despite its persistence, yet it persists. For one thing, as I’ve discussed before, people really seem to dislike data centers. American…
Protolabs Leverages 3D Printing for Its Robotics Customers to Increase Market Segment Growth 2x YOY
I just posted about how the FCC’s looming ban on new imports of robot systems is combining with surging robotics demand to create a big opportunity for the additive manufacturing (AM)…
AM & National Competitive Advantage, Part One: the Real Problem with US Manufacturing
The problem with US manufacturing is the productivity growth rate. Depending on the source, US manufacturing productivity has either been flat or slightly declined since 2010. Before going any further…
EOS Bets on Mexico’s AM Market with Axiomatek Sales Channel Deal
Mexico is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the push to diversify manufacturing out of China. This development is perhaps inevitable given the current global trade environment, but even with…
AM Demand Signals: Reshoring the Robotics Supply Chain
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently banned the sale in the US of “almost all” new mobile robots sourced from foreign countries. IEEE Spectrum (the link in the first sentence)…
HG Laser & The Overlooked Sources of China’s Advanced Manufacturing Strength
Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) HGTech (Huagong Tech) just reported that it achieved record revenue in H1 2026, amounting to just over $1 billion. The company credited the results to success…
3D Printed Electronics Specialist APES Joins Great Lakes Semiconductor’s First Innovation Funnel Project
Since Great Lakes Semiconductor (GLS) and Advanced Printed Electronic Solutions (APES) announced a strategic partnership earlier this year, I’ve been looking forward to hearing more about the collaboration, which the…
Let the Games Begin! Xi Throws Down the Advanced Manufacturing Gauntlet
Sangmin Lee went to TCT Asia back in March and reported on the event for 3DPrint.com. He wrote two articles arguing that China’s AM industry looks “ready to scale.” This…
IperionX Prepares to Scale Its Titanium Powder Production
If critical minerals processing were easy, then countries other than China would still be good at it. Amongst all industries, miners and processors of critical minerals face extraordinary opposition in…
Rosatom Aligns the Spread of Its AM Capabilities with Its Nuclear Deals
Back in 2016, Vietnam abandoned plans to build its first nuclear power plant, with the government viewing the market conditions surrounding electricity demand as being no longer conducive to the…
Impossible Objects Closes $40M Series B
The Pentagon, along with deep-pocketed collaborators in the private sector, is urgently coordinating the buildup of all the elements necessary for a domestic US drone supply chain. Even so, those…
3D Printed Football Helmets Are Amazing Business. They’re Also So Much More
NFL football is by far the most popular sport in the US, followed by college football (a state-of-affairs oddly similar to the fact that the world’s largest air force is…
