Progress in additive manufacturing of pure tungsten for plasma-facing component applications

•Recent progress regarding additive manufacturing (AM) of pure tungsten (W) by means of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is discussed.•The influence of the raw powder material characteristics on the resulting W part quality is briefly discussed.•Examples for complexly shaped additively manufactured W lattice structure samples are shown.•The application of an additively manufactured W structure as preform for a tungsten-copper (W-Cu) composite is illustrated.•Results regarding thermal shock experiments with the electron beam facility JUDITH 2 on W samples consolidated by means of LPBF are discussed.