Stratasys Talks The State of the Company and its Negotiations with Nano Dimension and 3D Systems

As we see more and more, the 3D printing market is continuing to move towards consolidation. In fact, a few weeks ago came a piece of news that caught the attention of the entire additive manufacturing sector. It was the upcoming union of Stratasys with Desktop Metal, two major manufacturers of industrial 3D printing solutions. But that was not all, not long before this announcement, we had learned of Nano Dimension’s own interest in acquiring the Stratasys ecosystem. Moreover, a few days after learning of the intended deal with DM, 3D Systems’ move to launch a takeover bid for the Israeli manufacturer was also announced. To learn more about the situation, we headed straight to the source. To do so, we spoke with the company’s CEO, Yoav Zeif. He explained in detail Stratasys’ strategy, as well as the current status of talks with other players in the sector.

3DN: Could you introduce yourself and tell us about the current situation with Stratasys?

My name is Yoav Zeif and I joined as Stratasys CEO in the middle of the pandemic in 2020. It was at that time that we set our strategy as a company, focusing first on leading in polymer manufacturing and working to provide complete solutions for the most compelling use cases for additive manufacturing. This strategy has been going really well. We’ve launched a number of new offerings for FDM and PolyJet, we’ve added three additional technologies so we can serve a much broader addressable market, we’ve adopted a common and open software strategy and a hybrid material strategy that’s right for manufacturing. Now it’s time to take the next step.

On the left, Yoav Zeif, CEO of Stratasys, in an interview with the 3Dnatives team.

3DN: Why did you decide to take the step to combine with Desktop Metal?

Our goal is to create a next-generation additive manufacturing company that can deliver a full set of solutions from design to production, across a wide range of materials, including polymer, metal, sand, and ceramic. That means more value for our customers. As we re-established clear leadership in the industrial polymer space, metal has always been the next step, so we started having some pretty substantive conversions beginning at RAPID+TCT last year. And quite simply, with their binder jet technology, Desktop Metal has the best production-scale metal 3D printing technology on the market.