If you think about the war time applications of 3D printing it's huge. In the field you can print bullets, artillery shells and if you are stuck and need to cross a river you can print a boat in 72 hrs.-
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is an avid user of 3D printing technology. ItsVHA 3D Printing Networkis responsible for coordinating the 3D printing initiatives in more than 33 VA facilities nationwide, producing pandemic PPE, custom prothesis, dental tools, and medical models. The U.S. Marine Corps’Advanced Manufacturing Operations Cell(AMOC) fulfills orders for additively manufactured parts from throughout the Marine Corps and develops 3D printable solutions that can then be sent to 3D printers in the field. Marines also learned how to 3D print a concrete bunker in just 36 hours that’s big enough to hide a truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher system. The U.S. Army’s Rock Island Arsenal Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence is just one of the locations housing the military's collection of 3D printing technology. A new additive manufacturing lab for metal parts is set to open at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City later this year. Rock Island recently announced it’s getting a second metal 3D printer from Australian manufacturerWarpSPEE3D, which uses a high-speed metal fabrication technology that can print tools and spare parts in a matter of hours. The 3D printing unit can be deployed to frontlines in a small container. .... Often tech comes to the consumer through the military... infrared etc.... STRATASYS- Wrong way Cathie wood dumps.... Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Minnesota. The company specializes in connected polymer-based 3D printing solutions. Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) posted a revenue of $521 million and $607 million in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The company expects to report a Q2 2022 loss per share of $0.01 and a revenue of $166.32 million. In July, Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF dumped more than 5.5 million Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) shares. Granted the numbers do not look good.... wonder if someone is sniffing around to buy this company? --> MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel, July 25, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSYS) (the "Company"), a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan (the "Rights Plan"). The adoption of the Rights Plan is intended to protect the long-term interests of Stratasys and all Stratasys shareholders and enable them to realize the full potential value of their investment in the Company. The Rights Plan is designed to reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group would gain control of, or significant influence over, Stratasys through the open-market accumulation of the Company’s shares without appropriately compensating all Stratasys shareholders for control. The 3D printed parts were built using ULTEM 9085. This material offers excellent strength-to-weight ratio and meet the required FST compliance for aircraft interiors. Airbus Use Stratasys 3D Printers for new A350 XWB | Laser Lines
Stratasys Earnings: Will Cathie Wood's Stock Dump Timing Prove Smart? Or will stonedinvestors buy turn out to be the smart move? KEY POINTS Wall Street expects the 3D printer company's second-quarter revenue to be up by 13% year over year. Analysts also project the company's adjusted loss per share will narrow by 50%. Management's guidance should be even more important than usual because of the challenging macroeconomic environment. NASDAQ: SSYS Stratasys Ltd. Market Cap $1B Current Price $20.59 When the company's Q2 report arrives, investors should focus on its sales of 3D printers and print materials. Stratasys(SSYS-1.25%)is slated to report its second-quarter results before the market opens on Aug. 3. At this point, it appears that the 3D printing company's report will precede that of rival 3D Systems, which hasn't yet announced a date for its next earnings release. Investors will probably be approaching Stratasys' upcoming report with somewhat equal doses of optimism and caution. On the positive side, the company has made good progress in improving its results following the earlier stages of the pandemic, which significantly hurt its sales to the industrial sector. Moreover, last quarter, it easily beat analysts' consensus estimates for both revenue and earnings. That pleased investors enough to send its shares up by 11.6%. However, warning signs that the U.S. economy could slide into a recession this year or next year have been intensifying. So investors are probably concerned about the effects the challenging macroeconomic environment could have on Stratasys' results over the short and medium terms. That's why the company's guidance should be even more important than usual this time. Additionally, some investors are probably concerned that Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood dumped Stratasys stock from her exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in a major way in early July. Granted, Wood's hand has been ice-cold lately, but she whipped other fund managers during the earlier stages of the pandemic and remains worth following. On July 5, Wood's Ark Innovation ETF sold 1.8 million shares of Stratasys. As of July 14, it holds fewer than 124,000 shares of Stratasys, which account for only about 0.02% of the fund's value. Not surprisingly, Stratasys stock plunged on July 6 after Ark's huge sale was revealed, losing 14.8% of its value. With this background in mind, here's what investors should be watching for in Stratasys' Q2 report. Stratasys' key numbers Below are Wall Street's consensus estimates for the recently completed quarter and the company's results from the prior-year period. Metric Q2 2021 Result Analysts' Q2 2022 Consensus Estimate Projected Change Revenue $147.0 million $166.3 million 13% Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) ($0.02) ($0.01) Loss projected to narrow by 50% For Q2, Stratasys guided for year-over-year revenue growth by a percentage in the low-to-mid teens. Management did not provide guidance regarding the quarter's earnings. For context, in the first quarter, Stratasys' revenue increased 22% year over year to $163.4 million, surpassing the $157.6 million Wall Street had expected and beating the company's guidance for a growth percentage in the high teens. That growth was driven by the company's products segment, where sales jumped 25%; its services segment's sales rose by just 15%. Within the products business, 3D printer revenue surged by 37% and print materials revenue grew by 16%. It was the company's best first quarter in terms of 3D printer sales in six years. This bodes well for its future sales of print materials because sales of machines drive sales of materials, which sport high margins. Last quarter's adjusted net income was $1.2 million, or $0.02 per share, up from an adjusted net loss of $0.06 per share in the year-ago period. This result well outperformed the adjusted loss of $0.04 per share that analysts had projected.
MANUFACTURINGEDITORS' PICK U.S. Military To 3D Print Its Way Out Of Supply Chain Woes Feb 27, 2022,12:39pm EST Matt Sermon, executive director of Program Executive Office Strategic Submarines, this plan will help Navy contractors – many of whom are the sole sources of components to the Navy – by removing pressure as they struggle to keep up with the current workload. A soldier holds a 3D-printed replacement cap used to protect the fire extinguishing system in the... [+] U.S. ARMY Last week, the Department of Defense released its assessment of defense critical supply chains in response to President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains. The report recommends the military expand its use of 3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing”) as a key focus area and strategic enabler required for mission success. 3D printing spare parts is actually nothing new to the U.S. military. 3D printed parts are currently in critical aircraft engines, on tanks and submarines, and on the soldiers themselves. In fact, the use of 3D printing in the U.S. military is now so widespread, the Department of Defense established an additive manufacturing strategy last year that outlines the technologies and applications it intends to fund and employ within all the branches. Its detailed 3D printing strategy calls for the military to use 3D printing to rapidly prototype and produce spare parts, and for use in the battlefield to produce "innovative solutions." “Additive manufacturing offers DoD unprecedented supply chain agility while enabling our developers to sustain technological dominance for our Warfighters,” said Robert Gold, director of engineering enterprise at the Department of Defense. Additive manufacturing enables the military to produce new products quickly and cost-effectively, on-demand and at the point of need, either at base, at sea, or on the frontlines. It bolsters the lifespan of legacy systems and vehicles that might otherwise be retired. A few years back, Wichita State University in Kansas working with the U.S. Army took apart a Black Hawk helicopter piece by piece to 3D scan each component. The detailed 3D digital models now can be instantly and securely sent to any military 3D printer anywhere for 3D printing spare parts at a moment's notice. The U.S. Military already, widely uses – or is experimenting with – 3D printing for everything from spare parts for fighter jets to concrete barracks for remote outposts. U.S. Marines learn concrete 3D printing that can produce faster and cheaper structures. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is an avid user of 3D printing technology. Its VHA 3D Printing Networkis responsible for coordinating the 3D printing initiatives in more than 33 VA facilities nationwide, producing pandemic PPE, custom prothesis, dental tools, and medical models. The U.S. Marine Corps’ Advanced Manufacturing Operations Cell(AMOC) fulfills orders for additively manufactured parts from throughout the Marine Corps and develops 3D printable solutions that can then be sent to 3D printers in the field. Marines also learned how to 3D print a concrete bunker in just 36 hours that’s big enough to hide a truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher system. The U.S. Army’s Rock Island Arsenal Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence is just one of the locations housing the military's collection of 3D printing technology. A new additive manufacturing lab for metal parts is set to open at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City later this year. Rock Island recently announced it’s getting a second metal 3D printer from Australian manufacturer WarpSPEE3D, which uses a high-speed metal fabrication technology that can print tools and spare parts in a matter of hours. The 3D printing unit can be deployed to frontlines in a small container. The ability to bring manufacturing to the frontlines significantly reduces the costs and time of shipping replacement parts from machine tooling hubs overseas. The DoD contracted with metal 3D printer manufacturer ExOne to develop a 40-ft long portable additive manufacturing unit to be deployed on land and sea. A spare part shortage grounded a B-52 Stratofortress until a 3D-printed battery vent tube put the... [+] The Army Research Laboratory is currently working on a way forward-deployed units can reduce supply chain dependence by using available plastic packaging materials as a feedstock for 3D printers that can then churn out a wide range of parts, tools, and supplies. There’s no shortage of parts and products the U.S. Military needs to ensure are available when and where they’re needed. From 3D-printed spare Humvee door handles to 3D-printed submarine parts, the uses of 3D printing within the military are vast and growing, and perhaps a universal roadmap for building supply chain resilience.
SSYS- Double Bottom at $16.50. May 11 // July 6. Would only have a target for me of $24. And is $20 now.
CELH just got an investment from Pepsi not a buyout. Don;'t know how it will react. Sold from the account. Prob another F up. FORMULA 1 broke out and now this... I have to reassess my sell reasoning....
You know what really ticks me off.. is my passive wife. She knows not a whit what is going on in the market but her IRA is the only portfolio that still has both Formula 1 and Celsius - That's why IRA's are valuable they keep you away from tinkering. Impatience is not a virtue-! Celsius Holdings, Inc. (CELH) NasdaqCM - NasdaqCM Real Time Price. Currency in USD 88.96+1.73(+1.98%) At close: July 29 04:00PM EDT 98.62+9.66(+10.86%) Pre-Market: