Kumovis is acquired by 3D Systems

Kumovis is proud to announce an acquisition that will further expand its 3D printing capabilities and strategic market access. Both hospitals with 3D printing laboratories and medical technology companies will benefit from this acquisition.

3D Systems has entered into an agreement to acquire Kumovis. Stefan Leonhardt, Co-CEO of Kumovis, explains this symbiotic alliance: “Through this merger, we can combine our unique PEEK printing technology with outstanding solutions from 3D Systems. This allows us to now offer and improve efficient, validated end-to-end workflows for the manufacturing of personalized implants and enhance patient outcomes. We will be able to focus even more on our core competencies to accelerate the development of a next generation of implants and fundamentally change the manufacturing of medical devices.”

Kumovis remains Kumovis

The integration of Kumovis’ 3D printing solutions into 3D Systems’ “Personalized Healthcare Solutions” portfolio will enable the expansion of the product offerings for medical devices and point-of-care laboratories to include the following indications:

Applications in the maxillofacial area have been a focus of 3D Systems for many years. Through this acquisition, the company will expand its VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) solution portfolio to include the manufacturing of PEEK implants – in addition to its products for anatomical models and surgical aids – to offer a complete solution to its customers.

Bone plates for trauma surgery and orthopedics are a new application focus, for which Kumovis has developed carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK bone plates for trauma and fracture fixation applications. This has the potential to open further opportunities for 3D Systems to penetrate and grow in the market segment of trauma and orthopedic point-of-care medicine.

Vertebral body replacements and spinal cages are also among the applications where 3D Systems is a leader in the development, production, and sale of both implants and 3D printing systems for in-house manufacturing.

3D printing for medicine

As a recognized market leader in personalized medical devices, 3D Systems has collaborated over the past ten years with physicians to plan more than 140,000 patient-specific cases and produce over two million implants and instruments for more than 100 CE-marked and FDA-approved devices. This occurs in its first-class, FDA-registered, and ISO 13485-certified facilities in Littleton (USA), Colorado (USA), and Leuven (Belgium).