VulcanForms announced the appointment of Jeff Hemenway as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), effective immediately; Velo3D concurrently expanded its technology and operations executive team, appointing Vic Fryzel as Executive Vice President of Technology and Robert Purnell as Senior Director of Operations. Hemenway brings over 35 years of manufacturing and commercial leadership experience, having previously served as Vice President of Sales at Hadrian and Senior Vice President of Global Industrial Sales at Stratasys; Fryzel has held engineering leadership roles at Google, Meta, and Carbon, while Purnell has a manufacturing operations background at FormFactor, Boeing, and SpaceX Starlink. Both American metal additive manufacturing companies are using executive appointments to support capacity ramp-up and commercial delivery. UK wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) company DEEP Manufacturing has reached its 18-month milestone: it has expanded from a single facility to dual sites in Bristol and Houston, achieving transatlantic 24/7 certified production, and becoming the world's first and only WAAM supplier to receive full DNV certification for pressure vessels for human occupancy (PVHO). The Bristol facility has added Rollerbot 2.0, CNC machining, and more WAAM robots, with its material portfolio expanded to carbon steel, stainless steel (ER316LSi), duplex and super duplex stainless steel (UNS S32750), nickel aluminum bronze (ER CuNiAl), copper alloy (ERCuNi30), and aluminum alloys (ER2319/2219). CEO Peter Richards stated that the large-scale additive manufacturing market is arriving as anticipated, and the next phase involves more equipment and more facilities. University of Sheffield spinout Instruct3D commercially launched its Additive Build Intelligence solution for high-value metal additive manufacturing at ICAM 2026: based on over 20 years of the university's additive manufacturing research, it combines physics optimization, end-to-end data intelligence, and VertX camera hardware, using AdditiveOS software to transform process data into actionable build intelligence, helping metal AM users predict defects, retain validation evidence, and improve first-time success rates. Value for powder buyers: ① WAAM's dual-facility capacity expansion and material grade expansion (ER316LSi, UNS S32750, ERCuNi30, ER2319, etc.) indicate rising procurement demand for wire/ welding wire metal feedstock; ② Velo3D's Livermore production campus and Forge 1 capacity ramp-up will continue to drive consumption of metal powders such as titanium alloys and superalloys; ③ the widespread adoption of process monitoring intelligence will help users reduce powder costs associated with trial and error, highlighting opportunities for related sensor and software procurement.