3 D printer Stock?

[DinarWhiz]

Anybody have any insight on a good 3 D printing stock to purchase. Thanks

[storm1]

yes!! just hang on, its going to IPO. the company is called "makerbot"

[DinarWhiz]

Thanks:) What time frame are we talking about

[Jmasters]

Anybody have any insight on a good 3 D printing stock to purchase. Thanks

Would think now would be a good time to get a printer yourself if possible and start making them.One could make a killing on the return I am sure.

[boomer113189]

i was on a site thats said makerbot 3d printing and it siad you can buy it for only 3- 4 k thats its ?

[coorslite21]

Glad you added this thread…..Interesting to me anyhow.....

 

Makerbot is one of the newer, smaller companies.  Their goal is to build smaller units for general consumer use. 

 

One of the more established 3D companies is Stratasys out of Eden Prairie, Minnesota……they are a public company.  

 

http://www.stratasys.com/Flex-Items/Home/Items/Sample-Part-Request.aspx?gclid=COGxrs3RkbYCFQSnnQodt20AFw

 

They are an international company and the commercial machines that they produce can cost as much as $300,000.  Ford Motor Company uses one of these machines for R&D and parts creation for new concepts.  Ideas can become creation in a matter of days opposed to the months it takes to go through the machining set up and processing. This 3D Printer concept will be a game changer.

 

It will be interesting to see how these machines change the work place…and the labor force…..

 

Stock info link:

 

http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/stock-price/?symbol=SSYS

 

One additional thought….what’s next….4D Printing……see the link….

 

http://www.webpronews.com/4d-printing-is-the-future-of-3d-printing-and-its-already-here-2013-02

[Rusty69]

Now They Can make plastic Guns That shoot Bullets, with these printers. Was posted on Market Watch. Not good!

[rockfl9]

IT IS ILLEGAL to produce a weapon that cannot be detected on Xray scanners in the US.. We should all agree with this . A voilation should be LIFE, no less.

[vietnam1969]

Anybody have any insight on a good 3 D printing stock to purchase. Thanks

Took the negative away someone gave you.

[DinarWhiz]

Thanks. Im invested in triple D at the moment.

[dontlop]

micro wave ovens started out expensive ..

 

hey some day every house may have two or three  of them .. if you need a part ,, ya google it and download the program  for a fee  or you will need  some math skills to program your own .. you would need to blue print  parts  before you could  program one ..unless a 3d picture would be good enough for a computer to program itself by then

 

 

 

but it your part is broken how do ya  make a new one with out a blueprint .... i guess down loading prints and programs will come with a fee .

 

or you buy a part .. measure it all out .. make a print .. and keep your own programs ....

 

raw materials will be a good investment.. what kinds of materials are they using got to find out whats needed to make parts

 

 

 

 

Plastic is made of monomers

Organic plastics are polymers, composed of monomers (repeating units). A polymer is a chain of molecules repeated again and again
these monomers will become plastic by addition polymerisation and the monomers are held by weak intramolecular forces and the forces may align themselves in a linear chain or a simple branched chain
 

Where do monomers come from?

Most monomers come from oil.

 

 

Carbon and Hydrogen

Different kinds of monomers produce different kinds of plastics.
All organic plastics include a long backbone of carbon.
Some plastics, such as polystyrene, are composed of monomers that contain only carbon and hydrogen.

Other kinds of plastics are "functionalized" with a wide variety of other kinds of atoms either present in the original monomer, or added later after polymerization.

Most amino acids can be composed entirely from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen (CHON).
All the other amino acids can be composed of CHON and sulfur.

 

petrochemicals

Today most plastics are made from petrochemicals (crude oil and natural gas), although they can also be produced from corn and other biomasses. In manufacture from petrochemicals, refineries process crude oil to produce, first, fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and a number of different lubricants. Then they spin off a wide variety of other petrochemicals. Some of these other petrochemicals are then used by chemical plants to make a wide variety of products such as fertilizers and plastic resins. Plastic resins are, in turn, used to produce many different types of plastic.


The majority of what we know as plastic today is made from materials that are extracted from crude oil. Often the same type of crude oil that is used to produce the fuels for cars.

• There are many other types of polymer, both natural and synthetic: cellulose, starch, silicones, teflon, PVC, etc.

• Elementally, plastics can contain carbon ©, hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), but also nitrogen (N), chlorine (Cl), fluorine (F), silicon (Si), sulphur (S), and phosphorus (P). The term plastic merely refers to the property of being flexible but firm

yep ya got to have raw materials too . how will they be marketed .. in powder ... pellets ... liquids ..? will you need a mixing station too? ..

theres a complete new market being born ..

Edited May 19, 2013 by dontlop

[skeptic1138]

There is a wide variety of 3D printing technologies with regard to the characteristics of the materials they use, the size of the part they can print, the accuracy achieved and the time it takes.  Some use liquid polymers that are solidified by lasers that draw the shape, some use plastic wire that is melted in tiny drops.  At the extreme high end there are machine that can 3D print titanium!  (using titanium power and an electron beam to fuse it).

 

A complimentary technology is 3D scanning.  They are often used together, you scan something you are interested in modifying or that you wish to have your new part fit into, then take that data into a modeling program that converts the "point cloud" into geometry, make the mods, and print the result.  Totally amazing.  I've played with it a little making a few parts I was considering prototyping and it was just so cool!  The advent of 3D printing has made Computer Aided Manufacturing all the more important as just because you can 3D print something, does not mean it is manufacturable in volume since 3D printing is still expensive compared to conventional manufacturing techniques.

 

Another interesting technology is biological 3D printing, i.e. printing out either a sort of scaffolding on which to grow a body part, or to print the body part directly!  Like this.

 

As far as stocks go DDD is a common one, I used to own them myself (but since then have turned over my portfolio management to others).  MakerBot might be a good play at some point but any startup is a big risk so consider that.  MakerBot is not competing with commercial products so they might have good niche, but many factors are at work to determine success.

Edited May 25, 2013 by skeptic1138

[dontlop]

 that  would be amazing it they could just scan  an area where a part fits into and make a new replacement part .. you would think they  would be using that technology  in machine shops right now ..the things they go through to repair broken parts  now  is very time consuming ..