3D Systems does some early Christmas shopping, buys up Z Corporation, and Huntsman’s 3D tech
Published 21 November 2011
Posted by Stephen Holmes
Z Corporation, with its lovely multi-color inkjet 3D printers, has announced that it will be acquired by 3D Systems, a company set on becoming a multi-faceted, ‘integrated platform’ for all things additive manufacturing.
This is in addition to it picking up Huntsman’s much delayed/maligned 3D printing technology, the Digitalis - a monster machine still in development, although having a few beta models working in the larger, specialist 3D printing outfits - and its RenShape stereolithography materials.
3D Systems now becomes the first company capable of delivering an integrated platform of mixed 3D printing technologies, 3D content, and 3D design services.
Most delightfully, the press releases inform us that Z Corp and the Huntsman package have been snapped up for $137m and $41m respectively in cash. Not a postal order, IOU or in equivalent-vaue baseball trading cards, but in ‘hard cash’. It’s a bit gangster.
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