Additive business update: 3D Systems, Materialise, Stratasys, and more. Financial results and new industry partnerships. With RAPID + TCT 2026 just a few weeks away, we should expect more announcements from the major players in additive manufacturing (AM) coming soon. Until then, however, there have been several recent developments on the business side of the AM industry that are worth noting. 3D Systems announces financial results and new CFO. Earlier this month, 3D Systems announced its financial results for 2025. While the company emphasized a strong fourth quarter, total revenue was down 12% year-over-year, with healthcare revenue down 5% and industrial solutions revenue down 17%. According to 3D Systems, adjusting for the sale of Geomagic improves those figures significantly, with total revenue and industrial solutions revenue down only 7% and 9% when the divestiture is taken into account. "We are pleased with our fourth quarter performance, which exceeded our expectations driven by both our Healthcare and Industrial segments," said 3D Systems president and CEO, Jeffrey Graves, in a company press release. "Three markets were particularly noteworthy: med tech, dental, and aerospace and defense, which are rapidly adopting 3D printing as a core manufacturing method. These three markets have been a particular focus for our new product development over the last several years, and we believe offer sustained growth opportunities over the next decade." "Our fourth quarter revenue increased 16% sequentially from the third quarter, driven by strengthening printer and materials sales in the period," said Phyllis Nordstrom in the same release. "We remain intensely focused on reducing overall spending, while prioritizing strategic investments that drive growth in our priority markets." Nordstrom was interim Chief Financial Officer of 3D Systems at the time, but it's just been confirmed that she'll continue permanently in this role. Nordstrom will also continue in her role as Chief Administrative Officer, overseeing global human resources, risk and compliance, and information technology and cybersecurity. Materialise and Siemens champion Additive Manufacturing Alliance. If there's one thing the AM industry loves, it's partnerships. From the AM I Navigator to the Leading Minds Consortium, there's no shortage of industry initiatives with the aim of advancing the technology and the adoption of 3D printing. Now, these two initiatives are joining forces with the creation of the Additive Manufacturing Alliance. According to its founders, the intention isn't to replace the AM I Navigator or the Leading Minds Consortium with this new alliance, but rather to align the efforts of both industry initiatives. "Our shared goal is to make additive manufacturing more accessible, less complex, and more integrated into everyday industrial production," said Brigitte de Vet-Veithen, CEO of Materialise, on behalf of the Additive Manufacturing Alliance in a Materialise press release. "Together, we can help more companies across a wider variety of industries benefit from the flexibility, efficiency, and innovation that AM enables." The AM I Navigator was launched at Formnext 2023 by Siemens, DyeMansion, HP, BASF, Forward AM, and EOS. Its goal is to provide companies with a proven framework for industrializing additive manufacturing and scaling it into serial production environments integrated with other manufacturing technologies. "Via the newly launched AM I Navigator website, companies worldwide can independently and free of charge assess their additive manufacturing maturity and explore transformational insights derived from proven industrial applications," said Karsten Heuser, VP of additive manufacturing at Siemens, in the same release. "The assessment tools are voluntary resources designed to help companies of all sizes, from startups to global manufacturers, benchmark their capabilities and identify improvement opportunities." The Leading Minds Consortium was announced at Formnext 2024 by eight founding members: Ansys, EOS, HP, Materialise, Nikon SLM, Renishaw, Stratasys, and ATLIX (formerly Trumpf Additive Manufacturing). The first initiative announced by the consortium focuses on addressing the fragmentation and complexity of AM terminology. Initial joint activities of the Additive Manufacturing Alliance will focus on knowledge exchange, joint industry communication, and supporting companies along their path toward industrializing AM. Meltio adds another sales and services partner. Continuing to widen its commercial reach, the laser metal deposition technology company Meltio has added another sales and services partner to its ranks: 3D Technology Ltd., which will distribute and support Meltio's solutions in the Ireland and Northern Ireland. 3D Technology Ltd.'s local support will include consultation and solution design, installation and commissioning, technical support and maintenance, application development and training. The company will focus on building a supportive ecosystem for Meltio's technology in the Irish territory as well as driving business opportunities alongside technology centers, machine tool companies, robotic integrators, academia, and industry. "We are incredibly excited to partner with Meltio and bring their world-class metal additive manufacturing technology to Ireland and Northern Ireland," said James Wall, managing director at 3D Technology Ltd. in a Meltio press release. "Meltio's wire-LMD systems are transforming how companies think about metal production, repair, and hybrid manufacturing." "We are delighted to welcome 3D Technology Ltd. as our official sales and technical support partner for Ireland and Northern Ireland," said Adam Hourigan, UK, Ireland, and APAC channel sales manager at Meltio, in the same release. "Now, customers in Ireland can gain access to solutions on their own soil from trusted advisors. The team at 3D Technology Ltd. is well respected for their strong engineering expertise, deep understanding of the Irish manufacturing landscape, and commitment to customer success." Stratasys releases 2025 financial results. Another big name in the AM industry, Stratasys has also announced somewhat underwhelming financial results from last year. Total revenue for the company was down 4% year-over-year, though the earnings call emphasized "solid cash flow, margins and profitability" with a specific callout to an increasing percentage of revenue coming from manufacturing. "Our fourth quarter performance caps a year in which we successfully maintained our operational discipline and delivered solid cash flow generation, demonstrating the resilience that distinguishes Stratasys," said CEO Yoav Zeif in a press release. "We generated 37.5% of our revenue from manufacturing applications, up from 25% in 2020, and made meaningful progress building on the foundational infrastructure of our highest-value use-cases, as we continued to improve our position in aerospace and defense, automotive tooling, dental, and medical applications." On that basis, the company said it is expecting 2.5-4% revenue growth this year, despite an assumption of $17M of combined adverse impact from exchange rates and tariffs relative to 2025. Missed the last Additive business update? Don't worry: we've got you covered.

EOS launches M4 ONYX 3D printer at Formnext 2025 - 3dprint.com. November 18, 2025 EOS is steadily establishing itself as an expert in developing dual-use technologies. Now, as I mentioned in a recent interview with Greg Hayes, the Senior VP Global Additive Minds at EOS, 'dual-use' is a term that has become overused to the point that many observers these days rightly question whether it even still means anything. But I think that this January 2025 article from the defense news publication War on the Rocks explains the term perfectly, and encapsulates why it matters despite its overuse: The authors explain, "Our experience from MIT, working with startups across a range of critical technologies exploring defense and commercial civilian markets, is to define dual-use as a strategy, not a category. ...early stage founders build a capability and, as good entrepreneurs, consider the best market fit across commercial and military markets as necessary and with a clear focus." EOS is of course not an early stage company, but the point applies nonetheless. It's relevant here because the US-German brand has clearly released its latest product, the EOS M4 ONYX metal additive manufacturing (AM) system, with a dual-use strategy in mind. EOS launched the M4 ONYX at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt this week, after developing the printer with extensive, wide-ranging input from the company's user-base built into the design. This is a running theme for EOS, which emphasized the same responsiveness to its customers in its launch of the P3 NEXT SLS printer at last year's Formnext. And, to be sure, this is a running theme in the AM industry, as a whole. The main thing that sets EOS apart here is simply that they have such a lengthy track record with unusually adept users to draw from. That really comes into focus when you think about the M4 ONYX by comparison with its predecessors: the printers in the M400 series, the first of which originally launched a little over a decade ago. In those days, barely anyone knew what 3D printing was, let alone that you could 3D print metal, and selling machines largely meant selling new users on the idea of the technology itself. That's still the case to no small degree. But for a machine like the M4 ONYX, specifically - which EOS plans to start shipping in Q1 of next year - it's hard to imagine that the buyers will be anyone other than serious power-users with years of metal AM experience. Thus, the decade of buildup with the M400 series was required for EOS to even create a machine like this. The key selling point is a lowered total cost of ownership (TCO). That's how Sebastian Becker, EOS's Head of Product Management for Metal Solutions, framed the system to me, in a discussion before Formnext: "The main aim of selling this machine is to deliver the best return on the best product in its category," Becker asserted. "SP3D is reducing [TCO] by up to 50 percent, increasing productivity by up to 50 percent, and increasing machine utilization and machine availability by up to 30 percent each. "These are the numbers that we targeted after discussing with our M400-4 customers, and reaching a consensus on the improvements they wanted to see." To achieve the productivity gains, EOS significantly increased the build volume compared to the M400-4 (450 "x 450" x 360" vs. 400" x 400" x 400"), and added two 400-watt lasers. EOS also focused obsessively on maximizing the efficiency of the print process: the company claims that customers can expect "more than 90% powder material recovery," while also reducing hazardous waste "by up to 90%" with the Recirculation Filtration System (RFS) Pro feature. Further, thanks to some important collaborations, EOS is delivering automated powder handling (through a partnership with Volkmann) and automated job exchanges (through a partnership with Grenzebach). And the company's own existing capabilities, including EOS Smart Fusion, enable users to minimize the need for supports. As Becker told me, all of these features naturally evolved from what has worked with prior EOS releases: "The powder handling and the dual setup station with the two exchangeable frames was developed on the M400-4 already," Becker noted. "Those functions matured, and SP3D transferred them to the M4 ONYX. Same with the optical tomography in Smart Fusion, which was originally developed on the M290, then brought to the M400-4, and improved to be optimized for new materials. "So now we have all of these capabilities that have been tested that we've brought to the M4 ONYX, and work for titanium, nickel, steel, and aluminum alloys. We can see all the puzzle pieces coming together with this machine." Becker told me that EOS already has orders for the machine, as well as a beta user, though he wasn't able to disclose who that was. But, given how much the M4 ONYX seems to draw from what customers of EOS sister company AMCM would want, I think SP3D can assume that the new machine was made precisely for enterprises like U.S. Navy contractors, the Ursa Majors of the world, and companies whose offerings have equal applicability to defense and civilian markets, like heat exchanger specialist Conflux Technology. Maximizing the uptime of manufacturing enterprises is the main thing that the AM industry can bring to the table in a dual-use context. That's what EOS is offering with the M4 ONYX. And, very soon, users producing for both defense and civilian customers will be able purchase an even more powerful version of the machine: in Q3 of next year, the company will be releasing the M4 ONYX FLX, which will feature four 1kw lasers capable of beam-shaping, thanks to EOS's partnership with nLight. These days, it's not easy to make something that's both truly new, and also responds directly to what the market wants. EOS may be successfully threading that needle with its latest launch. Stay up-to-date on all the latest news from the 3D printing industry and receive information and offers from third party vendors. Upload your 3D Models and get them printed quickly and efficiently.