May 2, 2012 
If you have been watching the corporate world of 3D Printing you may have notice that 3D Systems has been gobbling up a lot of 3D Printing companies. 22 at last count. This had made them one of the biggest 3D Printing companies in the World. This left a few other companies looking small in comparison… so what do you do when your competition is much bigger?? You team up. And that’s exactly what Stratasys and Objet have done with their recently announced merger. The full press release can be viewed here: http://investors.stratasys.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=664239
Both companies specialise on very different technologies, FDM v’s Objet’s Polyjet, so the merger allows them to offer different technologies to different applications.
One of the most familiar names in 3D Printing, Stratasys have sent 3D Printers Australia a sample part from on of their best Fortus 3D Production systems. The Fortus system are Stratasys highest end 3D printing system using advanced FDM technology. FDM (
