3D printing companies

Industrial polymer 3D printing. Builds FDM and PolyJet machines and sells the materials that run on them, aimed at aerospace, automotive, medical and dental. Israeli-American. In 2026 it agreed to buy Markforged from Nano Dimension for 42.5 million dollars.

One of the two oldest names in the field; it invented stereolithography. Sells SLA, SLS and metal machines plus healthcare and dental printing, materials and software. Has spent recent years shedding non-core units to cut losses.

Started in printed electronics (circuit boards), then turned into a roll-up: it bought Desktop Metal and Markforged in 2025, let Desktop Metal go into Chapter 11 the same year and agreed to sell Markforged to Stratasys in 2026. Under a strategic review since September 2025.

Makes metal laser powder bed fusion printers and sells printed parts. Went public by SPAC in 2021, was pushed off the NYSE in 2024, handed 95 percent of its equity to its noteholder in a debt swap and returned to Nasdaq in 2025.

The German pioneer of industrial laser powder bed fusion for polymers and metals, maker of the EOS M 290 and M 400 metal systems. Private and led by the founding Langer family; it does not publish revenue.

Changsha maker of industrial laser powder bed fusion systems for metal and polymer. Listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market in 2023; revenue grew 45 percent in 2025 to 715 million yuan.

Xi’an metal additive manufacturing group, known as BLT, selling printers, metal powders and printed parts to aerospace, engine, tooling and medical customers. Listed on the STAR Market in 2019.

German maker of large metal laser powder bed fusion systems, formerly SLM Solutions. Listed in Frankfurt in 2014, taken over by Nikon in 2023 and removed from the exchange the same year.

Binder-jetting printer maker founded in 2015. Went public by SPAC in 2020, bought ExOne for 575 million dollars in 2021, was acquired by Nano Dimension in April 2025, filed for Chapter 11 in July 2025 and was bought out of bankruptcy by Arc.

Shanghai stereolithography specialist that claims the largest SLA market share in China, with industrial SLA systems, DLP machines, resins and its own print-management software. It has been preparing a listing on Shanghai’s STAR Market since 2022.

Berlin maker of large-format FDM printers. Listed in Frankfurt in 2024 through a reverse merger; in June 2026 it announced the sale of its operating company to existing backers, a delisting and the liquidation of the listed parent.

Silicon Valley resin printing company built on CLIP, a continuous light-and-oxygen process, with production programmes for customers such as Adidas and Riddell. Private; valued at about 2.4 billion dollars in 2019.

German maker of large binder-jetting printers and on-demand parts. Listed in New York in 2013, left Nasdaq in 2024, and in 2025 its shareholders were wiped out in a court-backed restructuring after they rejected a sale to Anzu Partners.

Shenzhen maker of consumer 3D printers, best known for the Ender 3 series. About 74 percent of its 2025 sales came from outside China. Listed in Hong Kong in May 2026 and reported a first-half loss three months later.

Shenzhen maker of fast, enclosed consumer FDM printers with automatic multi-material feeding. Its X1 series launched on Kickstarter in 2022 and ended production in 2026. Stratasys has sued it over ten US patents.

Prague maker of the Original Prusa desktop FDM printers, plus filament and resin printers, founded by Josef Průša. It has moved away from fully open-source designs since 2023.

Makes professional desktop resin (SLA) and powder (SLS) printers and the materials that run on them. Private; valued at 2 billion dollars in 2021.

Maker of professional and education desktop FDM printers, formed when Ultimaker and Stratasys’s MakerBot merged in 2022. At the merger NPM Capital held 53.5 percent and Stratasys 46.5 percent.

Watertown maker of composite and metal printers, the first to print continuous carbon fibre reinforcement. Went public by SPAC in 2021, was bought by Nano Dimension in 2025 and is being sold to Stratasys in 2026.

A marketplace, not a factory. It matches a buyer’s uploaded part to a network of outside shops for CNC, 3D printing, sheet metal and injection molding, and takes a cut. It does not own the printers, which is the whole point of its model.

Runs its own factories for quick-turn digital manufacturing: CNC, injection molding, 3D printing and sheet metal. Built its name on very fast prototyping and low-volume production. Also resells network capacity, but the owned-factory model is the core.

Online 3D printing service started in 2007 as a Philips spin-off. Went public by SPAC in 2021, filed for Chapter 7 in 2024, and was relaunched the same year by two of its co-founders and the team running its Eindhoven factory.

Belgian company built on 3D printing software (its Magics build-prep suite is an industry default) plus a large medical and anatomical printing business and a service bureau. The software licences are the sticky, higher-margin part.

A space and defense company, listed here because it owns the Made In Space printing business behind the first commercial 3D printer on the International Space Station. Printing is a small part of the revenue; space systems and, since 2025, drones are most of it.

3D-bioprinting of cultivated and plant-based meat structures, selling the printers and the bio-inks that feed them. Small and speculative, and a reminder that "3D printing" as a stock theme reaches well past plastic and metal parts.