Partnering up at the Additive Ball
Partnering up at the Additive Ball Have you kept up with the Stratasys + Desktop Metal + 3D Systems + Nano Dimension saga? It’s been a captivating will they/won’t they that the striking Hollywood writers might want to turn into a movie when they’re back in the office...
Nano Dimension offers to buy rest of Stratasys
Nano Dimension offers to buy rest of Stratasys Nano Dimension just announced that it wants to buy the 85% or so of Stratasys shares it doesn’t already own for about $1.1 billion. You might remember that Nano Dimension disclosed a 12% stake in Stratasys last...
4 on a Tuesday: Stratasys and AspenTech acquire, Samp gets funding, SAP reports
4 on a Tuesday: Stratasys and AspenTech acquire, Samp gets funding, SAP reports It’s only Tuesday, and it’s already been quite a week. Here, in no particular order, are newsy bits that I think are interesting: Stratasys, the 3D printer company and owner...
MakerBot and Ultimaker to merge, secure $60 million investment
MakerBot and Ultimaker to merge, secure $60 million investment Remember when we were all going to have 3D printers at home, making replacement knobs for our stoves, printing toys for kids, and doodads for our offices? Not so much. That never took off for many reasons...
Stratasys announces a 10% workforce reduction
Stratasys announces a 10% workforce reduction I just put up the post about no PLMish layoffs — and Stratasys puts out a press release that says that it will cut its global workforce by about 10%, mostly before the end of June and all by the end of the summer....
Yay! Stratasys sees slow return to growth in 2016
There’s hope in the world of 3D printers! Stratasys announced earnings just now and provided guidance for 2016 that looks pretty good. Not awesome, mind you, but: Total revenue for Q4 was $173 million, down 20% from a year ago Citing weak demand from industrial...
Stratasys sees trouble in maker sales
Late yesterday, Stratasys announced that Q3 results would be well below expectations, coming in at around $167 million (versus earlier guidance of $155 million to $190 million), with a GAAP net loss of $155 million to $190 million that’s largely due to asset...
Q&A: VARs, AspenTech, Nastran and more
It’s always fascinating to see what brings people to the Schnitger Corp. website. Some of it makes sense: I write about PLM and you want to know about PLM — boom! Sometimes, though, it’s not so obvious … Do you really want me to write more...
