Acquisitions & Partnerships
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After acquiring a 30% stake in Italian metal AM service bureau BEAMIT, Swedish company Sandvik and its Italian partner are showcasing a combined metal powder and AM offering at Formnext. At their joint Sandvik-BEAMIT booth, the companies are displaying a range of Sandvik’s Osprey metal powders and customer use-cases, as…
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Royal DSM, Chromatic 3D Materials and German RepRap (GRR) have formed a partnership to develop high-performance, flexible solutions for 3D printing using Chromatic’s line of FlexTune polyurethane (PU) materials. Together, the companies will create PU-based 3D printed parts for the automotive, rail and footwear sectors, to name a few. Ultimately,…
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Accucode, an American reseller of Nano Dimension’s electronics 3D printing technology, is opening the world’s first service bureau for 3D printing electronics. To support the new service, the company has also purchased a second DragonFly LDM 3D printer from Nano Dimension. Accucode is a technology systems integrator and software developer…
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This morning, Formnext 2019 is kicking off in Frankfurt—with a lot to show. AM companies from around the world will come together in the German city this week to showcase new additive manufacturing solutions and products and to create new connections and partnerships. Digital manufacturing company Carbon, which is presenting…
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Automotive AM company Divergent Technologies (Divergent 3D) has signed a letter of intent to purchase five pre-production next-generation AM systems from SLM Solutions, with the ultimate aim of manufacturing 3D printed components for hypercars. The two companies have been working under a Joint Development Partnership (JDP) since 2017. That JDP involves…
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AREVO, a Silicon Valley company specializing in composite 3D printing, has enlisted AGC, Inc. as a strategic business partner in Japan. Through the collaboration, AGC will provide manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) to Japanese customers for the on-demand production of lightweight, 3D printed composite parts. The new service will leverage AREVO’s Aqua platform,…
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German DLP 3D printer manufacturer Rapid Shape has entered into a partnership with materials company Henkel in order to accelerate the mass production of 3D printed functional parts. As part of the agreement, Rapid Shape has become the latest member of Henkel’s open materials platform and will work to certify…
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Perhaps some consolidation may finally be taking place in the all-too-fragmented global AM industry as materials giant BASF has acquired Sculpteo, a pioneer in exploring the opportunities of on-demand part production via AM. BASF has been taking AM very seriously lately, incrementing the company’s exposure in the market with a…
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Shortly after the official announcement about AIDRO entering into a partnership with EOS, to develop AM for petroleum and natural gas sector applications, the Italian hydraulics and AM specialist has now been added to the EOS Ecosystem of companies which will be officially unveiled during the upcoming Formnext. Thus AIDRO joins…
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CEAD, a Netherlands-based provider of large-scale, composite 3D printing, and Siemens are expanding on an existing collaboration and will be jointly presenting their latest development, the AM Flexbot, at Formnext next week. The new system is a modular, hybrid technology for precision, large-scale parts. Specializing in polymer and fiber-reinforced 3D…
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