August 2020

Market and Technology News

August 2020

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Market News

Nexa3D

Nexa3D Acquires NXT Factory (August 5, 2020)

Nexa3D, vendor of SLA Systems aquires NXT Factory, a developer of PBF Systems.

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DyeMansion

DyeMansion raises EUR 12 million in funding (Augsut 5, 2020)

DyeMansion will use the new financial resources to accelerate the transformation of digital manufacturing in all areas. On the product side this means automated, digitally networked and fully integrated process chains. On the market side, DyeMansion’s global presence and performance will be further strengthened.

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AREVO

AREVO raises USD 25 million in funding (August 11, 2020)

Arevo, the Silicon Valley company behind the Superstrata custom 3D printed bike concept, raised USD 25 million in a Series B financing round. The funding comes as Arevo launched its first high-speed additive manufacturing system (Aqua 2) for large continuous carbon fiber composite structures.

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ICON

ICON raises USD 35 million in series A Funding (August 19, 2020)

ICON developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, today announced it has completed a $35M series A round funding. This will accelerate the development of their printers and will create jobs.

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Azul 3D

Azul3D Secures USD 12.5 million in Seed Funding (August 24, 2020)

The 3D-printing tech startup has secured USD 12.5 million in an oversubscribed seed financing. Azul 3D will use the capital to advance its proprietary high-area rapid printing (HARP^TM) technology and launch its first commercial printers.

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Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal to Become Publicly Traded Company

The Initial public offering could raise up to USD 575 million of investment for the company. Desktop Metal plans to use the additional funding to accelerate its growth, and to capitalize on the growing number of firms adopting 3D printing to make their supply chains more flexible.

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Technology News

Dyndrinte & HP

Dyndrite and HP Partner to Power the Next Generation of Digital Manufacturing Solutions (August 4, 2020)

Dyndrite, providers of the accelerated geometry kernel used to build next generation Additive Manufacturing (AM) hardware and software solutions. The Dyndrite Kernel is specially designed for enabling the development of high performance, scalable, and extensible AM hardware and software solutions.

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ICON

United States Marine Corps and ICON 3D Print Structure at Camp Pendleton (July 31, 2020)

Over the past year, the ICON team has been working with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an organization that focuses on accelerating commercial tech into the Department of Defense (DoD), to demonstrate the use of commercial scale additive manufacturing for military use.

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Related topics

Additive Manufacturing start-ups

30. April 2020

Additive Manufacturing is a highly dynamic and innovative industry. This leads to start-ups that form the technology landscape. Emerging mostly from university background, start-ups are most active in area of system development. Other fields include software, materials and applications.

Additive Manufacturing market by material

6. November 2019

The metal Additive Manufacturing material market is expected to almost tripple in feedstock use in the next five years. Regardless the high growth, the feedstock accounts for only a very small fraction of the worldwide metal material market. Most of the alloy consumption in AM is driven by high end applications in aviation and medical. Thus, high strength and high temperature alloys are taking large shares.

Additive Manufacturing market by industry

30. October 2019

Many different industries have successfully adopted metal Additive Manufacturing. Medical and dental can be regarded as pioneering industry with serial productions starting in the early 2000s. Other industries, especially aerospace continue to play a strong part in metal Additive Manufacturing.

Additive Manufacturing industrialization

29. October 2019

Over 18 different metal AM technologies are currently known, which are in highly different stages of maturity. Processes like Powder Bed Fusion or Powder Laser Deposition are well-established in multiple industries and used in qualified productions of serial parts. Other AM technologies have just been introduced into the market or are still in a phase of development.

Additive Manufacturing Market By Technology

29. October 2019

The metal Additive Manufacturing technology market will face large shifts in distribution and usage of AM principles due to new and upcoming technologies entering the market. Today, the large majority of machines sold and used are Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion systems. However, technologies such as Binder Jetting or Wire Arc Deposition will significantly increase their market share over the next 5 years.

Additive Manufacturing Market by Region

29. October 2019

At the early days of metal Additive Manufacturing, Germany was the leading market region with its first movers in LB-PBF technology CONCEPT LASER (now GE), EOS, REALIZER (now DMG MORI) and SLM SOLUTIONS. Hence, many pioneering users were located in Germany and Europe. By now, however, the market share is more evenly distributed with suppliers and buyers from all over the major industrial regions.