EOS

Private

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.

Status: Private
Headquarters: Krailling, Germany
Founded: 1989
Ownership: Private, run by the founder’s daughter
Technologies: Polymer laser sintering, Metal laser powder bed fusion

Timeline

8 entries, oldest first

1989
1989
Founded near Munich
Hans J. Langer founded EOS in Gräfelfing. BMW became its first customer the following year.
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1994
1994
Introduces its first direct metal laser sintering system
The EOSINT M 160 arrived in the same year Carl Zeiss Jena took a majority stake and EOS became the first supplier of both stereolithography and laser sintering systems.
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1997
1997
Acquires worldwide laser sintering patent rights
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2002
2002
Signs a mutual licensing agreement with TRUMPF
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2011
2011
Passes 1,000 systems sold
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2014
2014
Launches the EOS M 290 and moves into its Krailling headquarters
The larger EOS M 400 had launched in 2013.
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2019
Oct 2019
Marie Langer becomes CEO
The founder’s daughter took over on 8 October 2019.
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2025
Nov 2025
Launches the M4 ONYX at Formnext
The successor to the M 400 has six 400 W lasers and a 450 x 450 x 360 mm build volume, with EOS claiming 50 percent more throughput. Commercial availability was set for early 2026.
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Informational only, not investment advice. Timeline entries are compiled by hand from public sources and can lag real events. Figures come from company reports and news, not from us. Private companies rarely publish financials; where a figure is not disclosed we say so instead of estimating it.