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Manufacturers and Developers of Additive Systems and Materials
For information on system
manufacturers and developers, see Wohlers
Report 2012, an annual worldwide progress report
on the additive manufacturing and 3D printing state of the industry.
- Arcam
Machines that use electron beam melting technology to produce metal
parts from powder (Sweden)
- Asiga Small Pico 3D printer that uses DLP and LED technology to solidify thin layers of photopolymer
- Agilista 3D printer that jets photopolymer from Keyence (Japan)
- Blueprinter 3D printer based on a Selective Heat Sintering technology (Denmark)
- Bits
From Bytes A version of the RepRap "open source" 3D printer
(England)
- Carima
DLP-based additive manufacturing system (South Korea)
- CMET
Stereolithography machines (Japan)
- Concept
Laser Selective laser melting systems (Germany)
- Delta Micro Factory Corp. UP! personal 3D printer (China)
- Dimension
3D printers from Stratasys
- DSM
Somos Materials for additive systems
- Envisiontec
Photopolymerization process based on layer-by-layer projection using
Digital Light Processing technology
- EOS
EOSINT laser sintering machines and materials (Germany)
- Essential Dynamics Material extrusion process that dispenses silicone, epoxy, organics, cheese, chocolate, and other foods
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Candyfab machine based on the melting of table sugar using a stream of
hot air
- Evonik Materials for additive manufacturing
- ExOne Powder metal and sand systems based on 3D
inkjet printing technology from MIT
- Fab@Home
Open-source extrusion-based 3D printer developed at Cornell University
- Fabrisonic Systems and services based on ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) technology
- Fabbster Small 3D printer from Fruth Innovative Technologien (Germany)
- IREPA
Laser EasyCLAD Systems (France)
- MakerBot
Industries Version of the RepRap "open source" 3D printer

Part produced in
ULTEM 9085, courtesy of Stratasys
- Matsuura Lumex Avance-25 additive manufacturing system that includes CNC milling (Japan)
- Mcor
Technologies Mcor Matrix desktop paper lamination system
(Ireland)
- MicroFab Technologies Develops and commercializes applications for microdispensing and precision 3D inkjet printing
- Microfabrica
Developing proprietary EFAB technology for creating micromachines and
other miniature objects
- MK
Technology GmbH Vacuum casting system for making RTV silicone
rubber molds and prototypes
- NextFab
Store Kits and assembled Fab@Home systems
- Objet PolyJet 3D printers that jet and solidify
photopolymer (Israel)
- Optomec
Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) direct metal deposition system
- Phenix
Systems Solid phase laser sintering of ceramic and metal
parts (France)
- POM
Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) systems
- ReaLizer
Selective laser melting machines (Germany)
- Renishaw
Selective laser melting machines (England)
- RepRap Open-source extrusion-based 3D printer developed at Bath University
(UK)
- RepRap materials Wide range of products from many sources
- Sciaky
Electron beam additive manufacturing equipment
- Shaanxi Hengtong Intelligent Machine Co., Ltd. Stereolithography systems (China)
- Shanghai Union Technology
Stereolithography systems (China)
- SLM
Solutions GmbH Selective laser
melting machines (Germany)

Shoe sole models
created on a system from
Z Corp., courtesy of Reebok
- Solidscape
Inkjet printing systems used mainly for producing wax casting patterns (a Stratasys company)
- Stratasys
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) systems and materials for prototyping,
tooling, and manufacturing applications
- 3D
Systems Stereolithography (SL), laser sintering, 3D printers,
and materials
- 3Geometry Laser-based additive manufacturing systems for producing sand molds and cores (India)
- Trumpsystem
Precision Machinery (TPM) Laser sintering and laser welding
equipment (China)
- Unirapid
Stereolithography systems (Japan)
- Voxeljet
Systems using 3DP technology from Z Corp. and MIT (Germany)
- WindForm
Aluminum, glass, and carbon filled powders for laser sintering from CRP
Technology (Italy)
- Dates the additive system
manufacturers were founded and when their technologies were introduced
For information on system
manufacturers and developers, see Wohlers
Report 2012, an annual worldwide progress report
on the additive manufacturing and 3D printing state of the industry.
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