What the two companies agreed
HP Additive Manufacturing, based in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain, and Hyperion Materials & Technologies, based in Worthington, Ohio, have entered a Strategic Preferred Partner Agreement. It covers tungsten carbide parts made on HP's Metal Jet binder jetting platform and is meant to give industrial customers worldwide access to both rapid prototyping and production-ready components.
HP supplies the printing platform. Hyperion contributes its experience in making, sintering and finishing tungsten carbide. Together they describe one continuous path for a customer: developing the application, qualifying it, and then moving into serial production.
Hardware, powder and location
Hyperion installed an HP Metal Jet S100 at its production site in Barcelona in October 2026. With that machine running, commercial tungsten carbide production on the Metal Jet platform is available through Hyperion.
The process uses CarbiForm, a new Hyperion powder range prepared for binder jetting. According to the later 3DPrint.com report, it has been tested with HP's Metal Jet system in combination with Hyperion's sintering operations.
Which parts are targeted
The partners plan to work with customers to find applications where printed tungsten carbide has a technical or economic edge. They name geometries that are hard or uneconomical to make conventionally, such as complex shapes, merged assemblies and customised parts.
They also expect shorter development cycles and better use of material, while keeping the properties that make tungsten carbide common in demanding industrial settings. Hyperion CTO Biju Varghese and HP's Arvind Rangarajan both framed the deal as combining hard-materials know-how with a scalable AM platform. HP will present the technology at its Formnext booth D41 in Hall 12.1, with Hyperion staff present.
