Divergent announced it has engineered and built what it calls the most advanced industrial metal 3D printer in the US, the Monolith One, alongside a 430,000 sq ft second factory in Long Beach that will lift annual output eightfold. The machine is a laser powder bed fusion printer standing over eight metres tall with 24kW of laser power across twelve lasers, built entirely on a domestic supply chain and integrated into the company's DAPS manufacturing platform. Six are running in Torrance today, with 64 more coming online in Long Beach over 24 months, supporting roughly 1,000 direct jobs at full capacity.