Before Merit3D there was a troop photo, a broken arm, a BMX race I lost, and 18 days on a bus. Blake on where the partnership actually started.
On America’s 250th birthday, a note from a Carbon County shop floor. My ancestor Simeon Merrell was 15 when he lied about his age to enlist in May 1775.
Coal country to production additive. What it actually took to build an AS9100-certified manufacturing shop in Price, Utah — honestly.
Why Merit3D drop tests every new material on the shop floor before reading the datasheet — the cheapest filter in additive manufacturing qualification.
The NNSA just unveiled Aires Tide, a flight vehicle built with additive as its production layer. What AS9100 actually means for AM shipping flight hardware.
Two industrial transitions collide in mid-2026: additive manufacturing crosses into fleet-scale defense work, and coal-county Utah loses generation jobs.
Reshoring isn’t failing on patriotism — it’s failing on a 1985 cost model. Domestic production pencils out only when you rebuild the factory, not relocate it.
On our floor a production printer runs twenty feet from a CNC mill, and nobody calls one ‘advanced.’ A note on additive growing up into ordinary manufacturing.
A nuclear test reactor is being commissioned in Orangeville, Utah. A Carbon County manufacturer’s view on what it means for coal country’s next chapter.
Refining the Surface: Why the 3D Printed Look is Fading The air in Price, Utah, carries a different weight than it used to. For generations,
