Nikon to acquire SLM Solutions AM Industry

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SLM Solutions Group AG (“SLM Solutions”, “SLM” or the “Company”) and Nikon Corporation (“Nikon”) have entered into an Investment Agreement in relation to a voluntary public takeover offer that Nikon intends to launch for all outstanding shares of SLM at a cash consideration of EUR 20 per share. Nikon, a manufacturer of – among other things – tomography systems for NDT, had previously entered the metal AM service market by acquiring a majority stake in Morf3D, a leading California-based AM company serving the aerospace industry and a major user of SLM Solutions technologies (among others).

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Carbon acquires Paramatters AM Industry

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Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company, has acquired ParaMatters, a software provider for additive manufacturing. This acquisition expands Carbon’s current software capabilities to include topology optimization. Carbon’s technology platform now broadens to enable product design and development teams to create better products, in less time, using a wide variety of materials and production systems.

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Loctite materials qualified for Desktop Metal’s Xtreme 8K Materials

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Desktop Metal, Inc., a global leader in additive manufacturing technologies for mass production, has expanded its partnership with Henkel, on photopolymer material development, beginning with the qualification of Henkel’s Loctite 3D IND405 Black and Loctite 3D 3843 for use on the Xtreme 8K, the world’s largest Digital Light Processing (DLP) printer for high-volume production of end-use parts.

Lithoz reports most successful first-half in the company’s history Additive Manufacturing

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Lithoz GmbH, a world market and innovation leader in ceramic 3D printing, has had its strongest first-half ever, in terms of order intake. By the end of the second quarter, the company had already reached two-thirds of its full-year order intake target. In view of these strong first two quarters, the company forecasts 2022 as another leading and successful year – not only for Lithoz but for ceramic 3D printing as a whole.

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3D Systems’ Medical Advisory Board adds two new doctors Medical AM

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3D Systems has appointed Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Clinic, and Dr. Bon Ku, director of the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University, as the fourth and fifth members of the company’s recently established Medical Advisory Board (MAB). Dr. Cosgrove and Dr. Ku will join former Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, and former US Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin as members of the advisory board. The Board’s primary mission is to provide strategic input, guidance, and recommendations for the company’s expanding efforts in regenerative medicine.

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Repkon gives Titomic access to key Middle Eastern markets AM Industry

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Titomic Limited, a global cold spray additive manufacturing technology company with primary applications in aerospace and defense, and also the company that is creating radiation shielding for Fleet Space’s first Alpha satellites in 2023, has signed an agreement with Repkon Foreign Trade and Marketing Inc., a sister company of Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade Inc., that will see the company become an official reseller of Titomic systems within Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia – key Middle Eastern markets.

Braskem partners with Xenon arc to launch Braskem3D AM Industry

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Xenon arc and Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, have launched Braskem3D – an advanced direct-to-consumer technology platform that greatly simplifies and accelerates the accessibility of Braskem’s 3D materials to the North American market. This latest innovation will provide a strategic platform for growth to help support the growing demand for the company’s unique line of sustainable and innovative products.

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Multiphoton Optics becomes a Heidelberg Instruments branch in Jan, 2023 AM Industry

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Multiphoton Optics GmbH, the global solution provider for 3D lithography via two-photon polymerization (TPP), based in Würzburg, Germany, will become a subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH, one of the leading international players in the development and production of high-precision photolithography systems and nanofabrication tools, after resources have already been pooled in various business areas since the acquisition at the beginning of 2021.