Additive Manufacturing news and insights

Last month's leading stories: Consolidation, defence production and market signals

1. Nikon reports lower metal AM revenue, revises outlook for 2026
2. Hadrian Additive launches to support defence AM production
3. VulcanForms raises $220M to scale US metal AM
4. Rolls-Royce seeks UK funding for £3B UltraFan 30 engine programme
5. Divergent validates AM gearbox housing in KF-21 fighter aircraft flight
6. Divergent Technologies qualified for US Army ground vehicle parts production
7. ISO/ASTM 52948 standard classifies imperfections in metal Powder Bed Fusion
8. HII orders second NXG 600E from Nikon SLM Solutions for US Navy shipbuilding
9. New Wohlers Report 2026 highlights $24.2B global AM market
10. NASA JPL and Proteus Space achieve successful on-orbit deployment using AM

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Out now: The spring issue of Metal AM magazine

• Inside Nikon’s metal Additive Manufacturing strategy, Part 1: Hamid Zarringhalam on building a new growth pillar
• Inside Nikon’s metal Additive Manufacturing strategy, Part 2: Scaling industrial production in Long Beach
• Steel reinvented: Colnago’s Steelnovo and the search for the perfect modern road bike
• Additive Manufacturing in US defence logistics: From technical progress to operational capability
• Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2026: Strategy without the strategy-speak in a maturing AM industry
• Wire-based Directed Energy Deposition in large-scale metal Additive Manufacturing: Choosing the right process
• Industrialising Haynes® 282®: Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition for high-temperature performance

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Inside Nikon's metal Additive Manufacturing strategy, Part 1: Hamid Zarringhalam on building a new growth pillar

“Generate the datasets once, validate collectively, and place them all into a central repository that the entire defence industrial base can use.”

Nikon believes metal Additive Manufacturing can become its next billion-dollar business. Backed by significant cumulative investment, the company is concentrating on defence, qualification strategy and production economics rather than general rapid expansion.

Hamid Zarringhalam, in conversation with Martin McMahon and Nick Williams, explores how semiconductor-style process control and long equipment lifecycles underpin Nikon’s approach – and why execution, not enthusiasm, will determine how AM delivers durable industrial scale.

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Inside Nikon's metal Additive Manufacturing strategy, Part 2: Scaling industrial production in Long Beach

Following our interview with Hamid Zarringhalam in the preceding article, Metal AM travelled to Nikon Advanced Manufacturing’s Long Beach, California, facility to examine how the company’s defence-led strategy is being executed in practice.

Reporting for Metal AM magazine, Martin McMahon toured the production floors, qualification laboratories and large-format NXG installations supporting U.S. defence programmes, assessing how Nikon is translating capital investment and policy alignment into repeatable process control, production throughput and industrial-scale capability.

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Doing more with less: Domin’s evidence-based path to Additive Manufacturing success using maraging steel

“Domin is not an Additive Manufacturing company, but it employs AM where it enhances customer value.” – Marcus Pont, CEO

Additive Manufacturing’s promise isn’t in ‘printing everything’ – it is in knowing exactly where to apply the technology. At Domin, a UK manufacturer of motion control products, CEO Marcus Pont’s team uses the technology sparingly yet decisively, exploiting AM-enabled innovations and its potential to deliver complex internal geometries. The twist? A focus on steel. Too often overlooked for titanium or aluminium, maraging steel underpins robust, precise, and efficient hydraulic products.

Martin McMahon explores the disciplined use of AM as a powerful tool: performance first, costs controlled, and selectively delivering impact at scale.

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📌 In the spring issue of PIM International magazine

The 136-page Spring 2026 issue of PIM International (Vol. 20 No. 1) features over forty pages of industry news, plus the following articles and technical reviews:

• Industrialising titanium: MTIG’s strategy for scalable, cost-competitive precision MIM and AM
• Cooling the limits of power electronics: An integrated approach for e-mobility and AI hardware with copper MIM
• Removing the bottleneck: Automating depowdering for scalable Binder Jetting
• Extending the limits of Ceramic Injection Moulding: Thick-section processing with water-extractable binder
• Sinter-based Additive Manufacturing technologies in focus at ASTM’s ICAM 2025 conference

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• Additive Manufacturing Conference Türkiye, April 13, 2026 to April 15, 2026
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Discover machines, metal powders, post-processing, software, and specialist services in Metal AM's Advertisers’ Index & Buyer’s Guide – your quick-reference directory to every advertiser in the latest issue.

AM MACHINES

Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB)  

• 3D MicroPrint GmbH
• 3D Systems, Inc.
• Additive Industries
• AMCM GmbH
• ATLIX GmbH
• Avimetal AM Tech Co., Ltd 
• EOS GmbH 
• Eplus3D 
• Etxetar S.A. 
• Farsoon Technologies 
• Gekonn – Sipra d.o.o. 
• HBD  
• Schaeffler AG 
• Shenzhen Addireen Technologies Co., Ltd. 
• UnionTech  

Directed Energy Deposition (DED) 

• AML3D Limited
• WAAM3D Limited

Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-EB) 

• JEOL Ltd.
• Wayland Additive Limited

Vat Photopolymerisation (VPP) 

• Lithoz GmbH

Cold Spray 

• Impact Innovations GmbH

Multi-material AM  

• Schaeffler AG

PRE & POST-PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, PROCESS AUTOMATION

• Addiblast by FerroECOBlast
• EDM Network Inc.
• Inert Corporation
• joke Technology GmbH
• REM Surface Engineering
• Solukon Maschinenbau GmbH
• toolcraft AG
• United Performance Metals
• Volkmann GmbH
• VAC-U-MAX

HEAT TREATMENT & SINTERING

Sintering, debinding and heat treatment systems

• Carbolite Gero Ltd – Verder Group 
• Centorr Vacuum Industries 
• CM Furnaces Inc.
• Elnik Systems
• T-M Vacuum Products Inc
• TAV Vacuum Furnaces SPA

Toll debinding & sintering

• DSH Technologies

Gas, gas generation & gas measurement

• Airgas, Inc.

METAL POWDER

• Amaero Ltd
• AP&C
• Arcast Inc.
• Avimetal AM Tech Co., Ltd
• CNPC Powder Group Co., Ltd.
• Constellium
• Epson Atmix Corporation
• FOMAS Group
• Global Advanced Metals Pty Ltd
• Gränges Powder Metallurgy GmbH
• Höganäs AB
• IMR Metal Powder Technologies GmbH 
• Indo-MIM
• Kennametal Inc.
• Legor Group S.p.A.  
• Linde Advanced Material Tech. Inc.
• Metal Powder Works Limited
• Mitsubishi Steel Mfg. Co., Ltd.
• Osaka Titanium Technologies Co. Ltd.  
• Sandvik Additive Manufacturing 
• Sino-Euro Mat. Tech. of Xi’an Co., Ltd.
• SSAB AB 
• TANIOBIS GmbH 
• Ultra Fine Specialty Products

POWDER PRODUCTION & ANALYSIS

Atomisers 

• Arcast Inc.
• ATO by 3D Lab
• Blue Power Casting Systems GmbH
• Metal Powder and Process Ltd

Powder processing, classification & analysis

• ATM Qness GmbH – Verder Group
• Blue Power Casting Systems GmbH
• Elcan Industries Inc
• Eltra GmbH – Verder Group
• LECO Corporation
• Microtrac Retsch GmbH – Verder Group

PART MANUFACTURING

• 3D MicroPrint GmbH
• Indo-MIM
• Kennametal Inc.
• Sòphia High Tech

PROCESS MONITORING & CALIBRATION

Atmosphere analysis 

• PST – Dwyer Instruments, LLC

HIP SYSTEMS & SERVICES

• Isostatic Pressing Services
• Isostatic Toll Services, Inc.
• Pressure Technology, Inc.
• Quintus Technologies AB

AM SOFTWARE

• Comet Technologies Canada Inc

CONSULTING, TRAINING & MARKET DATA

• America Makes
• DSH Technologies

EVENTS & COURSES

• AM China 2027
• AMUG 2027
• Euro PM2026 Congress & Exhibition
• Formnext
• Formnext Asia Shenzhen
• HI-AM Conference 
• PMAMTi 2026  
• RAPID + TCT 2026
• Space Tech Expo USA
• T.I.C. General Assembly 
• World PM2026 | AMPM2026 | Tungsten2026

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