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• A very long time ago, in 2023, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry was enraptured over the attempts by a large chunk of its publicly traded original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to...
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A very long time ago, in 2023, the additive manufacturing (AM) industry was enraptured over the attempts by a large chunk of its publicly traded original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to acquire one another. Ultimately, none of those initially floated deals went through, although one of the players in the fracas, Nano Dimension, did eventually take over another of the players, Desktop Metal, and followed up on that deal the next year with the acquisition of Markforged, a company that hadn’t even been on the table in 2023.
Much of that strange time in the industry’s history was driven by Nano Dimension’s repeated efforts to execute a hostile takeover of Stratasys, which provides some particularly interesting context for the latest AM industry deal: Stratasys will purchase Markforged from