Nano Dimension to Acquire Desktop Metal in All-Cash Deal

Desktop Metal Merger With Nano Dimension Moves Toward Closing After Delaware Court Order

March 25, 2025

Manufacturing

Desktop Metal announced that the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered Nano Dimension (and Nano US I) to take the remaining steps needed for closing the merger agreement dated July 2, 2024. The court found Nano materially breached the merger agreement and granted Desktop Metal specific performance, ruling that only a national security agreement with CFIUS remains as a condition to closing.

Stratasys and Desktop Metal Combine in $1.8 Billion All-Stock Merger

May 27, 2023

Manufacturing

Stratasys Ltd. and Desktop Metal announced a definitive, all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion to combine their additive manufacturing businesses. The deal unites Stratasys’ polymer strengths with Desktop Metal’s industrial mass production platforms, targeting $1.1 billion in combined 2025 revenue, with closing expected in Q4 2023.

Desktop Metal to Acquire The ExOne Company

August 11, 2021

Manufacturing

Desktop Metal, Inc. agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of The ExOne Company for total consideration of $25.50 per ExOne share, implying a transaction value of approximately $575 million. The deal combines Desktop Metal's global distribution and product portfolio with ExOne's binder-jetting platforms to expand capability and accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing for mass production.

Desktop Metal Acquires EnvisionTEC for $300M

January 15, 2021

Manufacturing

Desktop Metal agreed to acquire EnvisionTEC for $300 million in cash and stock, expanding Desktop Metal’s product portfolio into volume-production photopolymer additive manufacturing. EnvisionTEC will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary with founder Al Siblani continuing as CEO, strengthening Desktop Metal’s capabilities and go-to-market reach in dental, medical, jewelry and industrial end markets.

Desktop Metal Acquires Aerosint

July 12, 2021

Manufacturing

Desktop Metal has acquired Aerosint, a Belgium-based pioneer of selective powder deposition systems that enable multi-material powder-bed additive manufacturing. Aerosint will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary led by its founders while Desktop Metal plans to industrialize and integrate Aerosint's technology into its AM product portfolio over the next two years.

Bruker Corporation Acquires NanoString Technologies Business

May 6, 2024

Medical Devices

Bruker Corporation has acquired substantially all assets of NanoString Technologies, Inc. through a court-supervised Chapter 11 asset sale for approximately $392.6 million in cash plus assumption of certain liabilities. The deal, announced April 2024 and closed in late April/early May 2024, brings NanoString's spatial biology and gene-expression product lines into Bruker to preserve customer access, product development, and jobs while expanding Bruker's life‑science instrumentation capabilities.