NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 11, 2026--
Impossible Objects, a manufacturing technology company bringing the flexibility of 3D printing to industrial-scale production, today announced a $40 million Series B funding round to scale its Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) technology and meet growing customer demand. Inflection Equity led the financing, with participation from Aaron Wealth Management, OCA Ventures, Impact Capital and Excell Partners.
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For decades, 3D printing promised to transform production but has largely remained a prototyping technology, limited by speed, materials and cost. Impossible Objects’ CBAM technology is revolutionizing 3D printing by bringing its advantages to mass production. Using high-speed production and advanced composite materials, including carbon fiber, CBAM can produce strong, lightweight parts at volume for applications traditionally served by processes such as CNC machining and injection molding, while eliminating the need for expensive tooling and associated costs.
“We’ve created a fundamentally new way to manufacture,” said Robert Swartz, founder and chairman of Impossible Objects. “We live our lives through things, and we have changed how things are made. This is as important as the mill, precision measurement and interchangeable parts. This funding gives us the resources to bring that vision to more customers and make it real at scale.”
The technology is already moving into customer environments. Since launching the CBAM 25 in early 2025, the company has taken five orders and begun deploying the system across aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing, including with the U.S. Air Force, the National Institute for Aviation Research, the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center and Rochester Institute of Technology. At U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal, the technology can support production of up to 10,000 drone bodies per month. The CBAM 25 can print up to 25 layers per minute and is 15 times faster than competing production additive technologies. Its process can produce composite parts with strength up to 200 MPa, up to four times that of competing additive manufacturing processes, with minimal shrinkage and warpage.
“We’re excited to double down on our investment in Impossible Objects and lead this Series B as the company enters its next phase of commercial scale,” said Gintaras Vaisnys, managing partner at Inflection Equity. “Impossible Objects has developed a 3D printing system that can operate at production rates, and the company is seeing explosive demand across commercial and government applications. This funding will help it scale to meet that demand.”
Impossible Objects has also secured $20 million in U.S. government contracts and awards. Its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I and Phase II awards support work on high-strength long range drones, additively manufactured composites with strengths comparable to traditional composites manufacturing, integrated wiring inside of additively manufactured parts and lightweight aircraft wing and fuselage structures. The company’s technology has also been sold to or deployed with U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal and Air Force Research Laboratory and is included in the U.S. Air Force Technology Roadmap.
“The nature of warfare is changing as new technologies are deployed,” said Stephen Farmen, retired U.S. Army major general. “As a result, the defense industrial base needs new advanced manufacturing technologies that can deliver robust and flexible distributed production so we can get new technologies such as drone and counter-drone systems and repair parts to our warfighters faster, more flexibly and with radically shorter delivery timelines.”
Impossible Objects will use the financing to increase production of its industrial additive manufacturing systems, expand customer deployments and build out the service and commercial organization required to support a growing installed base.
“Our CBAM 25 system is designed from the ground up to meet the high productivity and high reliability needs of advanced manufacturing combined with the flexibility and tool-less manufacturing that modern flexible supply chains require,” said Steve Hoover, CEO of Impossible Objects. “We're seeing high demand for manufacturing that can adapt faster without sacrificing the performance and reliability customers expect in production. This funding will help us scale to meet that demand. We are proud to be at the forefront of creating the modern manufacturing supply chains that advanced economies need.”
About Impossible Objects
Impossible Objects is transforming manufacturing by combining digital flexibility with industrial-scale production. Its technology combines the freedom of additive manufacturing with the throughput, reliability and economics required for real production, enabling manufacturers to build strong, lightweight parts while adapting designs without the tooling constraints of traditional manufacturing. Founded in 2017, Impossible Objects, Inc. serves customers across aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing and operates in Northbrook, Illinois, and Rochester, New York. The company is backed by Aaron Wealth Management, OCA Ventures, Impact Capital and Excell Partners, and works with organizations including the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, the National Institute of Research Aviation, the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center and Rochester Institute of Technology. Learn more at impossible-objects.com.
Impossible Objects’ CBAM 25 industrial additive manufacturing system in operation. The system uses the company’s Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) technology to produce strong, lightweight composite parts at mass-production speeds and is 15 times faster than competing production additive technologies.
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 11, 2026--
WaterTower Music today announces the release of the Practical Magic 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), available now on all major digital streaming platforms. The album features original score by award-winning composer Rupert Gregson-Williams and includes three new songs from Bleachers, Brandi Carlile and Aldae. A vinyl edition is available for pre-order now through Licorice Pizza Records. Listen to the soundtrack HERE.
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Reuniting after The Perfect Couple, director Susanne Bier turned again to Gregson-Williams to score the return to this beloved world. "His music has so much heart, but he's also quite versatile, and this score needed to have both," says Bier. "It needed to be huge at times, but also very intimate. I love the score. I think it's gorgeous."
For Gregson-Williams, the collaboration was a chance to go deeper. "Susanne and I have worked together once before, and it's an extremely important relationship for me. She has an instinct to push me in directions I wouldn't naturally feel comfortable in! It can produce some interesting results," he says. "She let me push into the emotional side of the story, and she encouraged the use of voices and bringing extra darkness when necessary."
At the heart of the score is sisterhood, the thread that binds both films. "We have an enormous fan base for the original movie, so it was important to use the main theme from that film," Gregson-Williams explains. "I teased the original theme at the very beginning to bring us into the world but held back playing it in all its glory until the very end, bringing us full circle. Sisterhood is the most important element in both films." He also wrote a new sisterhood theme to connect the story's three generations: "The melody has a timeless feel, a spiritual and emotional melody." The film's natural humor, especially between Sally and Gillian, needed little support. "It spoke for itself beautifully."
Voices became the score's guiding spirit. "I use female solo vocals to represent the ancient ancestral voices who help guide the family," says Gregson-Williams. "I could twist them to represent the left-handed magic and play melodies with them to signify the sisterhood power. The score starts with the vocals and ends with them: it is the ancestral magic guiding the sisterhood."
Producer Denise Di Novi points to the emotional core Gregson-Williams preserved: "He maintained the whimsy, magic and emotional core in his music—you can hear the heart and feel the otherworldliness of these magical lives. It's a big, lush cinematic score."
The soundtrack also features original songs from a remarkable lineup of artists, including Bleachers, Brandi Carlile and Aldae.
"It was an absolute joy to get together as a band and make a song for this soundtrack," says Jack Antonoff of Bleachers. "Practical Magic is such a beloved story. I'm so glad the world gets a part two, and that Bleachers gets to play a small part in it."
Brandi Carlile explains, "I got a FaceTime from an unknown number and it turned out to be Sandra Bullock asking me to be a part of this soundtrack. She introduced me to a song by Billy Joel that I had never heard before and I loved it so much, it instantly became a part of me. It’s such an honor to have gotten to do it for this film."
For star Sandra Bullock—who served as executive producer of the soundtrack, as she did on the first film—the music was its own kind of storytelling. "You have visual storytelling, and then there's musical storytelling. It was so much fun sitting in a room with a music editor and all these great artists who wanted to be with us on this journey," she says. "I was really excited for us to bring another soundtrack to life. To have music that makes you feel something, or a song attached to a memory, where you go, 'Oh, my God, I want to relive that moment!'"
The Practical Magic 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is available now. Listen HERE.
Practical Magic 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Tracklisting:
1. Caught Myself Believing - Bleachers
2. Blur – Aldae
3. And So It Goes (Film Version from “Practical Magic 2") – Brandi Carlile
4. Our Story
5. Just for You
6. Still Ours
7. Professor
8. Find This Man
9. Waking
10. Jet Reads the Book
11. Lip Gloss
12. Who We Are
13. A Little Bit Here and There
14. Kylie and Gideon
15. She Took It
16. Sisterhood
17. Tell Me
18. Stolen Scrolls
19. I'm Okay
20. Custard
ABOUT PRACTICAL MAGIC 2
Starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic and mayhem.
Starring along with Bullock and Kidman in PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 are Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, Solly McLeod, with Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing. Susanne Bier directs from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett and Kelly Marcel, based on the novel entitled The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman. It is produced by Denise Di Novi, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. The executive producers are Donald Sabourin, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
Bier is joined by an esteemed group of film artisans, including director of photography Simon Duggan, production designer Tom Burton, editor Sam Williams, music supervisors Season Kent and Gabe Hilfer, composer Rupert Gregson-Williams, costume designer Alexandra Byrne, and casting director Jina Jay.
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents, In Association with Alcon Entertainment, A Di Novi Pictures / A Fortis Films / A Blossom Films Production, A Susanne Bier Film: PRACTICAL MAGIC 2. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, only in theaters in North America on September 10, 2026, and internationally beginning 9 September 2026.
ABOUT RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS
Rupert Gregson-Williams most recently wrote the original score for Practical Magic 2, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman and directed by Susanne Bier, which Warner Bros. releases in North American theaters on September 10, 2026, and internationally beginning September 9, 2026.
An acclaimed composer working from studios in London and Los Angeles, Gregson-Williams moves across genre and tone, and his range has repeatedly been recognized: an Emmy nomination for the prestige drama series The Crown, the European Film Award for Hotel Rwanda, an Annie Award nomination for the animated Bee Movie, and the Reims International Composer Award for the independent film Love + Hate. That same versatility carries through the rest of his catalogue, from the Oscar-winning war epic Hacksaw Ridge to the broad comedy of Happy Gilmore 2 to the small-screen mystery of A Perfect Couple, and the 2024 Amazon film Brothers, starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage.
He and his brother, composer Harry Gregson-Williams, write the score for the drama series The Gilded Age, which debuted on HBO in January 2022 and is now filming its fourth season for a Fall 2026 premiere, and previously collaborated on the miniseries Catch-22.
Gregson-Williams scored Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, starring Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman, directed by James Wan and released December 2023, following his work on the original Aquaman, released December 2018 and the highest-grossing DC film of all time. He also scored the blockbuster Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, and his television credits include Catherine the Great, starring Helen Mirren, the limited series Catch-22 for Hulu, and the mini-series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth.
His animation work spans Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Abominable, and Back to the Outback, and his earlier film credits include the international hit The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Margot Robbie, rounding out a filmography that spans blockbuster action, character-driven drama, and family entertainment.
ABOUT LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS
Licorice Pizza is a revival of the iconic Southern California record store originally founded in 1969, reimagined by musician and producer Kerry Brown for a new generation of music fans. Today, Licorice Pizza brings together a curated record store, record label, vinyl pressing operation, artist events, and original content—all centered around creating a community where people can discover music, connect with artists, and share their love of vinyl.
ABOUT WATERTOWER MUSIC
WaterTower Music, the in-house label for the Warner Bros Discovery companies, releases recorded music as rich and diverse as the companies themselves. It has been the soundtrack home to many of the world’s most iconic films, television shows and games since 2001.
Practical Magic 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Available Now
