3D Systems

3D Systems, headquartered in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a company that engineers, manufactures, and sells 3D printers, 3D printing materials, 3D scanners, and offers a 3D printing service. The company creates product concept models, precision and functional prototypes, master patterns for tooling, as well as production parts for direct digital manufacturing. It uses proprietary processes to fabricate physical objects using input from computer-aided design and manufacturing software, or 3D scanning and 3D sculpting devices.

3D Systems Corporation
Company typePublic
IndustryTechnology
Founded1986 (1986) in Valencia, California, U.S.
HeadquartersRock Hill, South Carolina, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
ServicesSLA, SLS, DMP, FDM, CNC,
Injection Molding, Investment Casting,
Sheet Metal, Figure 4, Medical Grade Prototypes,
Appearance Models, Low-Volume Mass Production
Revenue US$538 million (2022)
US$−117 million (2022)
US$−123 million (2022)
Total assets US$1.45 billion (2022)
Total equity US$750 million (2022)
Number of employees
2,032 (2022)
Website3dsystems.com
Footnotes / references

3D Systems' technologies and services are used in the design, development, and production stages of many industries, including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, dental, entertainment, and durable goods. The company offers a range of professional- and production-grade 3D printers, as well as software, materials, and the online rapid part printing service On Demand. It is notable within the 3D printing industry for developing stereolithography and the STL file format. Chuck Hull, the CTO and former president, pioneered stereolithography and obtained a patent for the technology in 1986.

As of 2020, 3D Systems employed over 2400 people in 25 offices worldwide.

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