We’re covering business and energy news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Würth Additive Group has closed its doors, and BigRep delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. RA Wind received a grant for robotic 3D printing of wind turbine blades. Finally, Ampera has completed production on a 3D printed microreactor module.
Würth Additive Group Business Unit Announces Closure
The Würth Group, a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Germany, manufactures and sells assembly and fastening materials. It started working with additive manufacturing (AM) in 2017, and opened its Würth Additive Group (WAG) business unit in 2021. In addition to distributing 3D printing materials and hardware through reseller partnerships, WAG’s main goal was to support customers with inventory management solutions, and the unit introduced its AM-driven Digital Inventory Services (DIS) platform at AMUG 2024, officially launching it at AMUG 2025. Things seemed to be going well for WAG, at least from the outside looking in. The company held a Demo Days tour around North America in 2024, co-produced a white paper about AM and digital inventories with Additive Manufacturing Research, and even announced a strategic partnership with B9Creations at AMUG 2026. Then, last week, WAG confirmed that it was closing via a brief LinkedIn post.
If anyone was following along on LinkedIn, maybe you saw the closure coming. Two months ago, AJ Strandquist, Würth Additive’s CEO, posted that he was leaving, “officially closing one chapter and starting another.” Then, three weeks ago, Mikhail Gladkikh, Director of Global Technology and Technical Projects, shared that he’s “actively exploring my next chapter,” citing the “wind-down” of the WAG division. This wind-down was then made official with WAG’s 50-word statement on LinkedIn. As far as I can tell, no reason for the closure has been publicly shared; the post simply said that the company “is committed to an orderly closure of all operations.” In response to every LI comment on the post, WAG has expressed its gratitude, and called the closure “a carefully considered business decision.” Stakeholders with active accounts, or outstanding arrangements, will be contacted directly by the company’s Closing Office. Those with other inquiries should email [email protected]. I, for one, will miss Würth Additive Group. I like what they were doing with DIS, I think it was important. But we’ll have to find our digital inventories elsewhere.
BigRep SE Delists from Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Liquidates Parent Company
ONE.5 at work. Image courtesy of BigRep.
And the hits just keep on coming, as large-format 3D printing leader BigRep GmbH will be sold and delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This is another SPAC casualty, as BigRep is one of many AM firms that went public through a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
We’re covering business and energy news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Würth Additive Group has closed its doors, and BigRep delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. RA Wind received a grant for robotic 3D printing of wind turbine blades. Finally, Ampera has completed production on a 3D printed microreactor module.
Würth Additive Group Business Unit Announces Closure
The Würth Group, a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Germany, manufactures and sells assembly and fastening materials. It started working with additive manufacturing (AM) in 2017, and opened its Würth Additive Group (WAG) business unit in 2021. In addition to distributing 3D printing materials and hardware through reseller partnerships, WAG’s main goal was to support customers with inventory management solutions, and the unit introduced its AM-driven Digital Inventory Services (DIS) platform at AMUG 2024, officially launching it at AMUG 2025. Things seemed to be going well for WAG, at least from the outside looking in. The company held a Demo Days tour around North America in 2024, co-produced a white paper about AM and digital inventories with Additive Manufacturing Research, and even announced a strategic partnership with B9Creations at AMUG 2026. Then, last week, WAG confirmed that it was closing via a brief LinkedIn post.
If anyone was following along on LinkedIn, maybe you saw the closure coming. Two months ago, AJ Strandquist, Würth Additive’s CEO, posted that he was leaving, “officially closing one chapter and starting another.” Then, three weeks ago, Mikhail Gladkikh, Director of Global Technology and Technical Projects, shared that he’s “actively exploring my next chapter,” citing the “wind-down” of the WAG division. This wind-down was then made official with WAG’s 50-word statement on LinkedIn. As far as I can tell, no reason for the closure has been publicly shared; the post simply said that the company “is committed to an orderly closure of all operations.” In response to every LI comment on the post, WAG has expressed its gratitude, and called the closure “a carefully considered business decision.” Stakeholders with active accounts, or outstanding arrangements, will be contacted directly by the company’s Closing Office. Those with other inquiries should email [email protected]. I, for one, will miss Würth Additive Group. I like what they were doing with DIS, I think it was important. But we’ll have to find our digital inventories elsewhere.
BigRep SE Delists from Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Liquidates Parent Company
ONE.5 at work. Image courtesy of BigRep.
And the hits just keep on coming, as large-format 3D printing leader BigRep GmbH will be sold and delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This is another SPAC casualty, as BigRep is one of many AM firms that went public through a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).