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HP and Hyperion put printed tungsten carbide on a commercial footing from Barcelona

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HP and Hyperion put printed tungsten carbide on a commercial footing from Barcelona
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HP Additive Manufacturing and Hyperion Materials & Technologies have signed a Strategic Preferred Partner Agreement for tungsten carbide parts made by binder jetting. Hyperion has installed an HP Metal Jet S100 at its Barcelona plant and offers prototypes and production parts on it. The aim is to bring hard, wear-resistant components into industrial series, with HP showing the technology at Formnext.

Key facts
  • Hyperion installed an HP Metal Jet S100 in Barcelona in October 2026
  • New CarbiForm powders are made for binder jetting of tungsten carbide
  • Agreement covers prototyping and production-ready parts for industrial customers worldwide
  • HP shows the technology at Formnext, booth D41, Hall 12.1

Context Binder jetting glues metal powder layer by layer with a liquid binder, and the printed part gains its final density only after sintering in a furnace.

Of all the materials binder jetting can process, cemented carbide is the most natural fit, because carbide parts are already made by pressing and sintering. That is why I see this as a sound setup: the printer sits with a company whose core skill is the furnace, and in binder jetting the furnace decides the outcome, not the print head. For a buyer, the questions move to the sintered part. How is shrinkage compensated on your geometry, and what tolerance comes out of the furnace before grinding? Are density, hardness and toughness reported for printed parts or for a conventional grade? Diamond grinding of carbide is costly, so the case rests on how close to final shape the part arrives. In my experience, the only convincing evidence is wear life measured on your part in your application, so budget a pilot for that before talking about series volumes.
Commentary by Svetozar Kolesar

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.

What it means

For wear-part makers in the EU, a binder jetting route for tungsten carbide located in Barcelona shortens the path to a first qualified batch. The business case still depends on part complexity and volume, and sintering shrinkage and finishing add steps beyond printing. No prices, lead times or property data were published, so buyers will need part-specific quotes and test results. Qualification of each application is shared work with the partners, not a given. This follows HP's recent push to win larger production runs on its platforms.

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Frequently asked questions

What did HP and Hyperion agree?

They signed a Strategic Preferred Partner Agreement to offer tungsten carbide parts made on HP's Metal Jet binder jetting platform, from prototypes to production-ready components.

Where will the parts be made?

On an HP Metal Jet S100 that Hyperion installed at its production facility in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2026.

What powder is used?

CarbiForm, a new Hyperion line of tungsten carbide powders designed for binder jetting.

Read the original reports
  1. PIM International, 28 Oct 2026
  2. VoxelMatters, 30 Oct 2026
  3. 3Druck.com, 2 Nov 2026
  4. 3DPrint.com, 14 Nov 2026