Desktop Metal, Inc. is a public American technology company that designs and markets 3D printing systems.[2][3] Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts,[4][5] the company has raised $438 million in venture funding since its founding[6][7] from investors such as Google Ventures, BMW,[8] and Ford Motor Company.[7] Desktop Metal launched its first two products in April 2017:[9] the Studio System, a metal 3D printing system[10] catered to engineers and small production runs,[11] and the Production System,[9][12] intended for manufacturers and large-scale printing.[13] In November 2019, the company launched two new printer systems: the Shop System for machine shops,[14] and the Fiber industrial-grade composites printer for automated fiber placement.[15] The World Economic Forum named Desktop Metal a Technology Pioneer in 2017.[16]
History
2015–2016
Desktop Metal was founded in October 2015[17] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a startup company focused on 3D metal printing.[18] Among the seven founders[8] were Ric Fulop[2] and Jonah Myerberg of A123 Systems, Rick Chin of SolidWorks, and Yet-Ming Chiang, Ely Sachs, Christopher Schuh,[18] and A. John Hart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[8] Sachs was known for coining the term 3D printing years earlier.[13] At the time of its founding, the company was developing a process for metal 3D printing that would be fast and small enough for office settings.[19]Xconomy wrote that the company's intent was to create a metal 3D printer that would "churn out parts more quickly" and be "much cheaper, smaller, safer and easier to operate" than alternatives on the market.[12] To eliminate the need for trained personnel to operate the equipment, dangerous features such as lasers were not made a part of the design process.[19] By October 2015 the company had 11 employees,[18] with Ric Fulop as CEO.[19]
Desktop Metal was collaborating with Ford Motor Company's research and advanced engineering and manufacturing teams by 2017, refining its system to meet manufacturing requirements.[22] Desktop Metals was also working with BMW in Munich to explore eliminating the need to warehouse parts,[4] and companies such as Milwaukee Tools[23] and Jabil Circuit Inc. A U.S. were evaluating the printers for production use.[24] The company revealed two distinct metal 3D printing systems in late April 2017: a studio model and a production model.[9] The Studio System, safe for office settings[25] is designed for rapid printing and the production of small volumes,[11] while the latter is intended for high-speed production of parts.[25] Both systems include a printer, furnace, and cloud-based software to operate the machines,[12] with the ability to print several hundred alloy types.[9]Forbes described the pricing scheme of the products as "competitive," noting the systems cost "10 times less than what's on the market."[13]
Stratasys, an investor in Desktop Metal,[3] announced in May 2017 that its resellers would stock Desktop Metal's products.[26] The World Economic Forum named Desktop Metal to its 2017 Technology Pioneers list of 30 companies in June,[16] and also that month, MIT Technology Review named Desktop Metal among its 50 Smartest Companies in the World for the year.[27] Desktop Metal raised a total of $115 million[23][28][29][30] in a Series D round of funding in July 2017,[29][31] its largest round to that point.[32][31] Funds went to R&D, its sales program, and international growth[30][31] and brought the total raised since founding to $212 million.[30][32][33] The company began shipping the Studio System in December 2017[22] as part of its "Pioneer" program. The first printer went to Google's Advanced Technology and Products Group[34] and among other early customers were the United States Navy, Built-Rite Tool & Die, and Lumenium.[35]
2018
By early 2018 the company had been granted two patents for separable support and an interface layer, with around 100 patents pending for around 200 inventions.[34] In February 2018 the company previewed Live Parts,[34] a software program for automatically generating printable designs.[36]
At CES 2018 Desktop Metal won an emerging tech award from Digital Trends.[36] In 2018 it also won a Gold[37]Edison Award.[34] In March 2018, Ford Motor Company led a $65 million investment round in Desktop Metal, with Ford's CTO joining Desktop Metal's board of directors.[38] With a $1.2 billion valuation, by May 2018 Desktop Metal had been named the fast growing "unicorn" in United States history, surpassing $1 billion after 21 months in operation.[39] Desktop Metal introduced an upgrade to its industrial scale systems at Formnext 2018, claiming the 50% printing speed increase made the model "the fastest metal printer in the world."[40] Cofounder Ric Fulop asserted that the system dropped the price per part significantly compared to other systems, in one case from $700 per kilo of parts to $50 a kilo.[41]
2019–present
In January 2019, Desktop Metal raised an additional $160 million in funding, resulting in a valuation at $1.5 billion.[6][42][43] By May 2019, the company employed around 300 people, mostly engineers, with the machines made through contract manufacturing. It also had a sales channel distributing in 48 countries.[41] In June 2019, the company began shipping to Europe.[44] By 2019, the company had raised $437 million from investors, and was one of only three 3D printing unicorns. In November it introduced a system for metal job shops[14] and a system using fiber placement.[15]
In May 2023, industrial 3D printer company Stratasys agreed to acquire Desktop Metal in an all-stock transaction valuing the combined company at $1.8billion, in which existing Desktop Metal shareholders will own around 41percent of the combined company.[48] Stratasys terminated the acquisition in September after its shareholders voted against the acquisition after two companies made unsolicited bids for Stratasys.[49]
In July 2024, Nano Dimension announced an agreement to acquire Desktop Metal for $135-183million in an all-cash transaction.[50]
Products
Printer systems
Desktop Metal launched its first two products in April 2017:[9] the Studio System, a metal 3D printing system[10] designed for engineers and small production runs,[10][11] and the Production System,[9][12] intended for manufacturers and large-scale printing.[13] In 2019 the company introduced the Shop System, a metal binder jetting printing system designed for machine and metal job shops,[14] as well as Fiber, a continuous carbon fiber printer using automated fiber placement technology (AFP) to make parts.[15]
Studio System
Both the Studio System and Production System include two key components: a printer that produces small objects out of metal powders, and a sintering furnace to densify the objects using[23] thermal processes.[13] The systems can print a variety of materials,[51] including steels, copper,[9]aluminum,[52] and alloys such as Inconel. Powders also used in the metal injection molding market[25] are housed in replaceable cartridges[13] made by various metallurgy companies and Desktop Metal.[9] As the process doesn't utilize high power lasers,[51] or hazardous materials, the Studio System can be housed inside office spaces[13] with standard wall outlets.[12]
The Studio System uses a proprietary technology called Bound Metal Deposition,[10] similar to fused deposition modeling (FDM)[51] where the printer "extrudes a mixture of metal powder and polymers to build up a shape, much as some plastic printers do." When the shape is complete, it is placed in a furnace which burns away the polymers and "compacts the metal particles by sintering them together at just below their melting point."[11] At that temperature the metal is fused without melting and losing its shape.[9] The sintering causes predictable shrinking, which the system's software compensates for by making items slightly larger during the printing step.[11] Beyond the printer and furnace, the Studio System also includes a debinder to remove part of the polymer binder before sintering.[31]
Production System
The Production System uses a printing method where droplets of a binding agent are "jetted" onto a metal powder in heated layers.[12] The method is called Single Pass Jetting, used for quickly producing metal parts.[25] According to the company, the system can process 8,200 cubic centimeters per hour, which is nearly 100 times faster than laser-based systems using powder bed fusion (PBF).[53] It can produce dozens of parts simultaneously.[54] The Production System was named by Popular Science as one of the top engineering innovations of 2017, in the magazine's annual Best of What's New issue.[55]
Live Parts software
Desktop Metal developed Live Parts,[34] an AI software for users to automatically generate printable object designs.[36] The program allows users to input specifications for an object, then creates a computer model which can be printed[56] using any 3-D printing system.[34]
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