Welcome to 2024! Deal fever continues …

Welcome to 2024! Deal fever continues …

Welcome to 2024! Deal fever continues … I hope you were able to catch a little downtime over the year-end and that your 2024 is off to a great start. We had three winter storms in a week, lost power, shoveled a lot of snow — and are looking at more of the same...
Update: Stratasys + Desktop Metal = not happening

Update: Stratasys + Desktop Metal = not happening

Update: Stratasys + Desktop Metal = not happening Stratasys held its shareholder meeting today, and, as predicted, management couldn’t muster the votes to approve the combination with Desktop Metal. As a result, Dov Ofer, Chairman of Stratasys’ Board of Directors,...
Update: Stratasys + Desktop Metal = not happening

A quick update on the Additive Ball

A quick update on the Additive Ball Remember how last month there was a will they/won’t they dance going on in the world of additive manufacturing? Well, the dance continues, with news on several fronts. To recap: Desktop Metal and Stratasys had planned a merger, then...
Partnering up at the Additive Ball

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...
Update: Stratasys + Desktop Metal = not happening

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...
Stratasys announces a 10% workforce reduction

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....