2025 has been a reset 12 months for 3D printing, with offers closed, belongings altering homeowners, and new preliminary public choices (IPOs) signaling the place development might come from subsequent. If the market felt noisy, you’re not flawed. And that’s precisely why the enterprise observe at Additive Manufacturing Methods (AMS) 2026 options CEOs and executives who can clarify the place the business goes from right here.
Jeffrey Graves speaks at AMS 2025. Picture courtesy of 3DPrint.com.
Consolidation and carve-outs
The large story of the 12 months was in all probability consolidation. Nano Dimension lastly closed its acquisition of Desktop Steel and Markforged in April. The transaction ended what felt like a protracted saga (let’s not neglect the lawsuits, shareholder drama, and all that ready).
However consolidation didn’t cease there. Courts additionally permitted the sale of ExOne, EnvisionTEC, and AIDRO — items that had been a part of Desktop Steel — to an affiliate of Anzu Companions. These carve-outs confirmed how rapidly enterprise portfolios can shift fingers, giving these manufacturers a brand new chapter underneath Anzu, whereas Nano Dimension stored the core enterprise. Collectively, the strikes added to a way of an business that’s reshaping itself, maybe round extra clear methods and stronger foundations.
IPOs and new momentum
Whereas some firms mixed, others went searching for public markets. Creality filed to go public in Hong Kong, a transfer that highlights each the size of China’s client base and the extreme rivalry with Bambu Lab. In a special nook of the market, Graphy went public as properly on South Korea’s secondary inventory market, anticipating that buyers nonetheless see worth in specialty supplies, notably in dental, the place demand is regular and margins are nonetheless very wholesome.
These IPOs inform us two issues. First, Asia is changing into much more essential in client 3D printing. Second, supplies (particularly in areas like dental) are nonetheless a robust draw for buyers. So, 2025 has been about firms getting greater the place they’ll, whereas specialised gamers proceed to seek out their area of interest.
Shares, alerts, and volatility
For firms which are already public, volatility hasn’t gone away. Buyers need to see actual use of machines, tighter spending, and development in software program and companies. The chatter round Creality’s submitting even captured a much bigger fact: some buyers are nonetheless prepared to pay for development, whereas others are ready for the following market dip to seek out worth. That rigidity is prone to stay a central theme when AMS turns the highlight on public markets.
For firms already in the marketplace, volatility stays a key a part of the story. Buyers need to see actual utilization of machines, tighter spending, and development in software program and companies. Creality’s IPO plans present that curiosity within the client facet of 3D printing stays robust. That momentum might be an essential matter at AMS when the dialogue turns to public markets.
Creality Ender 3 V3 SE printer. Picture courtesy of Creality
The Enterprise Observe at AMS 2026
Markets, offers, and management might be a central theme of the AMS 2026 program. Over three days, panels will take a look at public markets, personal financing, enterprise capital, and forecasts, ending with the CEO roundtable.
All through the occasion, greater than 20 CEOs will take the stage, together with Yoav Zeif (Stratasys), John Barnes (The Barnes International Advisors), Kenneth Church (nScrypt), Joseph Crabtree (AMT), Brigitte de Vet-Veithen (Materialise), Phil DeSimone (Carbon), Felix Ewald (DyeMansion), Omar Fergani (1000 Kelvin), Michael Fuller (Conflux Know-how), Jeff Graves (3D Programs), Johannes Homa (Lithoz), Melanie Lang (FormAlloy), Brian Matthews (ADDiTEC), Wealthy Neill (APES), Kevin O’Keefe (nPower Applied sciences), Sam O’Leary (Nikon SLM Options), Rajan Patel (Kallisio), AJ Strandquist (Würth Additive), Øyvind Tafjord (Visitech), and Brett Walker (Electroninks).
Alongside them, attendees can even hear from executives at HP, VulcanForms, Continuum Powders, EOS, Lincoln Electrical, and extra. Collectively, these leaders cowl all the things from making elements to supplies, software program, {hardware}, and extra.
Yoav Zeif, CEO of Stratasys, at Additive Manufacturing Methods 2024 alongside 3DPrint.com Govt Editor Joris Peels. Picture courtesy of 3DPrint.com.
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