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A.History and Development of the Company
Our legal and commercial name is Stratasys Ltd., and we are the product of the 2012 merger of two leading additive manufacturing companies, Stratasys, Inc. and Objet Ltd. Stratasys, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 1989, and Objet Ltd. was incorporated in Israel in 1998. As part of that merger transaction, the ordinary shares of Stratasys Ltd. were listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the trading symbol “SSYS”. We have acquired (and, in certain cases, disposed of) a number of companies since that time. In July 2014 and August 2014, we acquired Solid Concepts and Harvest Technologies, respectively, two leading providers of additive manufacturing services. Following those two acquisitions, in 2015, we introduced our branded Stratasys Direct Manufacturing, or SDM, service, which significantly broadened and increased our production and offering of AM parts, which are used by our customers as prototypes, benchmarks and end-use parts. In December 2020, we acquired 3D printing start-up, Origin Inc., or Origin, and its proprietary P3 Programmable PhotoPolymerization technology, which has become an important growth engine for our company. The acquisition was aimed at fortifying our leadership in polymers and production applications of 3D printing in industries such as dental, medical, tooling, and select industrial, defense, and consumer goods markets. In February 2021, we acquired UK-based RP Support Ltd., or RPS, a provider of industrial stereolithography 3D printers and solutions. RPS’ complementary technology further expanded our polymer suite of solutions across the product life cycle, from concept modeling to manufacturing. In April 2021, we introduced the Stratasys H350 3D printer, the first system powered by the powder-based SAF™ technology of Xaar 3D Ltd., or Xaar, and in November 2021, we acquired all remaining shares of Xaar (we previously owned a 45% share in Xaar), thereby accelerating our growth in production-scale 3D printing. In September 2022, we disposed of our subsidiary MakerBot, a leader in desktop 3D printing, merging it with UltiMaker, after which transaction we hold a 46.5% equity interest in the combined company, which aims to provide easy-to-use and accessible 3D printing hardware, software, and materials for any application. In October 2022, we acquired the assets of the quality- assurance software company Riven and integrated its cloud-based software solution into our GrabCAD® additive manufacturing platform, which enables manufacturing customers to adopt our solutions for end-use parts production. We completed, in April 2023, the acquisition of the additive manufacturing materials business of Covestro AG, which has expanded our differentiated materials offerings in stereolithography, digital light processing (DLP), and powders. As part of that acquisition, we also significantly expanded our IP portfolio, obtaining ownership over hundreds of patents and pending patents that were held by Covestro. Our materials portfolio was similarly bolstered in May 2025 when we acquired key assets and operations of Forward AM Technologies GmbH, formerly a prominent additive manufacturing materials brand, particularly enhancing our Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF) and Digital Light Processing (DLP) portfolios. Our acquisition in June 2025 of a collection of assets, including the IP portfolio, of Nexa3D, added its lineup of high-speed resin 3D printers to our systems offerings. We have furthermore effected, and expect to continue to effect, smaller acquisitions and investments in other companies from time to time to support execution of our strategy.
We have dual headquarters. Our registered office and one of our two principal places of business is located at 1 Holtzman Street, Science Park, P.O. Box 2496, Rehovot 76124, Israel, and our telephone number at that office is (+972)-74-745-4314. Our other principal place of business is located at 5995 Opus Parkway, Minnetonka, Minnesota, and our telephone number there is (952) 937-3000. Our agent in the United States is Richard Garrity, Chief Business Unit Officer of our Delaware subsidiary, Stratasys, Inc., whose address is c/o Stratasys, Inc. at the address of our Minnetonka, Minnesota headquarters. Our web address is www.stratasys.com. The information contained on that website (or on our other websites, including stratasysdirect.com and makerbot.com) is not a part of this annual report. The SEC maintains an
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As an Israeli company, we operate under the provisions of the Companies Law.
In 2025, 2024 and 2023, our capital expenditures amounted to $27.1 million, $12.7 million and $15.0 million, respectively, of which $24.9 million,$10.9 million and $13.6 million, respectively, was principally related to the purchase and construction of property, plant and equipment.
During 2025 and 2024, our purchases of property and equipment were primarily directed at the enhancement of our manufacturing capabilities to support new solution offerings, for our facilities in Israel and the United States.
B.Business overview
We are a global leader in polymer-based 3D printing solutions, which we provide at every stage of the product life cycle, with multiple technologies and complete solutions for superior application fit, across industrial, healthcare and consumer fields. We focus, in particular, on polymer 3D printing solutions that address the fastest-growing industrial and healthcare solutions, which we view as the biggest potential growth opportunity in the 3D printing industry. Leveraging distinct competitive advantages that include a broad set of best-in-class 3D printing platforms, software, materials and technology partner ecosystems, innovative leadership, and a global GTM infrastructure, we are positioned to further expand our leadership in this significant and growing global marketplace.
Our approximately 2,700 granted and pending additive technology patents currently held (in addition to many others previously held) have been used to create models, prototypes, manufacturing tools, and production parts for a multitude of industries including aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, consumer products, dental, medical, fashion and education. Our products and comprehensive solutions improve product quality, development time, cost, time-to-market and patient care. Our additive manufacturing ecosystem of solutions and expertise includes printers and post-process machines, materials, software, expert services, and on-demand parts production.
In recent years, we have expanded our leadership through innovation in the fast-growing mass production parts segment through our next-generation photopolymer platform. Our pioneering approach to additive manufacturing of end-use parts enables us to serve a large market with manufacturing-grade 3D printers, utilizing P3™ Programmable PhotoPolymerization technology, which precisely controls light, heat, and force, among other variables, to produce parts with exceptional accuracy and consistency and unique production grade properties.
Our Neo® line of systems feature dynamic laser beam technology that enables build accuracy, feature detail, and low variability across the full extent of a large build platform. As an open resin system, Neo products provide customers materials with a wide range of properties such as chemical resistance, heat tolerance, flexibility, durability, and optical clarity, and can produce large parts, providing a significant build area in a small footprint.
Similarly, we have accelerated our growth in production-scale 3D printing, with the Stratasys H350™ 3D printer, the first system powered by Xaar’s powder-based SAF™ technology, which is designed to deliver cost-competitive parts at production-level throughput. H Series™ Production Platform printers such as the H350 are designed to deliver part quality, consistency, and reliability for high production yield, utilizing a uniform thermal experience for all printed parts regardless of their placement in the build, representing a significant improvement over traditional powder-bed fusion processes.
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In April 2023, we purchased the assets of Covestro’s additive manufacturing materials business, including all of the SOMOS™ photocurable liquids portfolio. The materials, IP portfolio, and talent we acquired from Covestro have helped us address new applications in key technology categories such as stereolithography, P3/DLP, and powder-bed fusion, including SAF™ technology.
In March 2024, we acquired Arevo’s technology portfolio, including its intellectual property, or IP, estate, which includes multiple foundational patents in carbon fiber printing, Z-strength improvement achieved by localized laser melting and roller compaction, in-situ and AI build monitoring, and hardware design. Adoption of this technology in our FDM® print systems enables us to extend our addressable manufacturing applications for our customers.
In October 2025, we launched the iAM Marketplace™. It is an independent, hardware-agnostic platform designed to accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing as a core manufacturing capability across the product lifecycle. The marketplace offers the polymer AM industry’s broadest portfolio of high-quality materials, engineering services, and products, helping manufacturers scale production while enabling more agile, resilient supply chains. iAM Marketplace brings together the materials expertise of iSQUARED, Forward AM, and assets from Nexa3D in a single open-access platform focused on certified solutions and real-world applications.
We now offer a broader range of systems, consumables and services for additive manufacturing. Our wide range of solutions, based on our proprietary 3D printing technologies and materials, enhances the ability of designers, engineers and manufacturers to:
•visualize and communicate product ideas and designs;
•verify the form, fit and function of prototypes;
•manufacture tools, jigs, fixtures, casts and injection molds used in the process of manufacturing end-products;
•manufacture customized and short-to-medium-run end-products more efficiently, with greater agility, and more sustainably; and
•produce objects that could not otherwise be manufactured through subtractive manufacturing methodologies.
Our goal is to be the first choice for polymer 3D printing. Given our significant experience and proven operating history, we have many competitive advantages including:
•Versatile offering of innovative technologies. We offer five different 3D printing technology platforms, each of which has been optimized for specific industry applications, which provides us with a versatile, deep offering for end users within the 3D printing industry They are complemented by a technology-agnostic software platform, with an extensive and rapidly expanding ecosystem of software solutions and software partners for workflow and connectivity, as well as a robust range of advanced materials.
•Extensive materials ecosystem. To ensure maximum performance and quality, as well as access to the broadest possible range of materials for our customers, we provide a robust range of materials in three distinct tiers: (i) Stratasys Preferred, which are engineered by us or our third-party material partners exclusively to provide the best combination of material and printer performance; (ii) Stratasys Validated, which are engineered by us or our third-party materials partners and validated by us with basic reliability testing to accelerate the expansion of material options available in the marketplace; and (iii) Open: Unvalidated materials accessed via an OpenAM Software License, which may offer unique attributes and the potential to address new applications but have not received validation testing or optimization relative to performance and functionality
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on a Stratasys printer. Our acquisition of Covestro in April 2023 has further strengthened our differentiated materials offering in stereolithography, DLP, and powders, which additional materials are supported by a broad portfolio of patents. The launch of the iAM Marketplace in October 2025 further strengthened our offering with the widest portfolio of materials and services geared towards the needs of our customers.
•Deep application engineering expertise. We believe we have the most industry application engineers in the world who provide our deep quality and process certification expertise. This is essential for meeting the rigorous demands of industries like aerospace, where there are over 700,000 Stratasys parts already flying around the world today, or healthcare, where we support multiple materials for biocompatible applications. We have multi-industry experience with multiple 3D printing technologies serving the aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, dental, consumer, education, and medical industries.
•Unparalleled market access. We believe our network of over 140 resellers and value-added channel partners is the strongest and most experienced in the industry, covering every region and every major market. This network of resellers worldwide is exclusive to us and our technologies, and has been built over many years, making it unable to be quickly and easily duplicated. This channel network has focused primarily on selling and servicing our FDM and PolyJet solutions since the merger of Stratasys and Objet in 2012, and starting in 2021, included the Origin P3, SAF, and Neo stereolithography technologies, which dramatically expand the total addressable market across medical, dental, consumer goods, automotive, commercial goods, and service bureaus.
•Marquee customer base. Many of the world’s leading companies across aerospace, technology, automotive, consumer, energy, and healthcare are our strategic partners. These include: General Motors, whose new multi-million-dollar additive manufacturing facility in Michigan features Stratasys systems from low to high end; TE Connectivity, which is now using Origin One 3D printers to produce end use parts for aerospace connectivity; Airbus, which we recently announced has printed more than 25,000 flight-ready parts on our systems in 2025, bringing the total number already in flight to over 200,000; and the U.S. Navy, which leveraged Stratasys printers in seven different sites across the globe as part of its annual Trident Warrior experimentation exercise, aimed at demonstrating how advanced manufacturing keeps military units operational at sea and in forward-deployed locations.
•Software/Digital manufacturing connectivity. Through our GrabCAD Additive Manufacturing Platform, we have created a smart and connected software ecosystem to enable additive manufacturing at scale across the digital thread, from design through production. Our SDKs integrate with many different software partner solutions, allowing customers to turn data into intelligence by collecting important information that can be used to improve productivity. This level of integration expands the capabilities of 3D printers. In addition, many of our 3D printing systems are software-upgradable. As our largest customers increasingly adopt multiple Stratasys systems across multiple 3D printing technologies, the efficiency benefits of a single software platform to manage them increases.
We benefit from recurring revenues from the sale of resin and plastic consumables and related services. We provide products and services to our global customer base throughout our offices in North America and internationally, including: Baden-Baden, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan, as well as through our worldwide network of over 140 resellers and channel partners who are exclusive to us and our additive manufacturing technologies. We have 1,757 employees worldwide, including what we believe is one of the largest additive manufacturing service bureaus in the United States.
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Industry overview
Historically, prototype development and customized manufacturing have been performed by traditional methods using metal extrusion, computer-controlled machining, and manual modeling techniques, in which blocks of material are carved or milled into specific objects. These subtractive manufacturing methodologies have numerous limitations. They often require heavy involvement of specialist technicians and can be time- and labor-intensive, and traditional molds for injection molding are expensive. The time intensity of traditional modeling can leave little room for design error or subsequent redesign without meaningfully impacting a product’s time-to-market and development cost. As a result, prototypes have traditionally been created only at selected milestones late in the design process, which prevents designers from truly visualizing and verifying the design and geometry of an object in the preliminary design stage. The inability to iterate a design rapidly hinders collaboration among design team members and other stakeholders and reduces the ability to optimize a design, as time-to-market and optimization become necessary trade-offs in the design process.
3D printing addresses many of the inherent limitations of traditional modeling technologies through its combination of functionality, quality, ease of use, speed and cost. 3D printing can be significantly more efficient and effective than traditional model-making techniques for use across the design process, from concept modeling and design review and validation, to fit and function prototyping, pattern making and tooling, to direct manufacturing of repeatable, cost-effective parts, short-run parts and customized end products. Introducing 3D modeling earlier in the design process to evaluate fit, form and function can result in faster time-to-market and lower product development costs, while keeping intellectual property in-house. As the 3D printing industry is maturing, its role in a product’s lifecycle is further expanding, specifically into manufacturing solutions that follow the initial modeling and prototyping stages of the product lifecycle. This evolution opens a substantially larger total addressable market for additive manufacturing solutions.
In the medical industry as well, practitioners are rapidly embracing the cutting-edge production of 3D printed anatomical models for pre-operative procedural planning. 3D printed pre-procedural models are low-cost and are customized to individual patients. Created from medical scans, the printed models provide physicians the opportunity to map out their procedures in a no-risk surgical setting. The rapidly produced and quickly delivered models assist with procedure validation, ultimately improving patient outcomes.
For short and medium-run manufacturing, 3D printers eliminate the need for complex manufacturing set-ups and reduce the cost and lead-time associated with conventional tooling. Direct digital manufacturing, or DDM, involves the use of 3D production systems for the direct manufacture of parts that are subsequently incorporated into the user’s end product or manufacturing process. DDM is particularly attractive in applications that require shorter-run or lower-volume parts or rapid turn-around, and for which tooling would not be appropriate due to small volumes.
Increasingly, attention is being paid to the potential sustainability benefits of additive manufacturing as well. By producing parts on-site and at scale, carbon emissions associated with transportation and delivery can be reduced. Additive manufacturing also reduces waste because the right number of products are created at the right time. One study has suggested that additive manufacturing could reduce industrial energy use by up to 27% by 2050. Light-weighting parts through additively designed polymer components save airlines fuel. - about 14,000 gallons of fuel per year per plane for every pound eliminated.
Technological advancements, such as those achieved by our FDM, P3 and SAF technologies, are beginning to significantly increase the volumes at which additive manufacturing is competitively advantageous up to tens of thousands and beyond in some cases. DDM also enables the production of
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objects that have been topologically designed, or designed on the basis of a computerized determination of where to place the key components of the object and how to connect them, a process that is generally unavailable using conventional subtractive manufacturing methodologies.
Desktop 3D printer usage has shown rapid growth in recent years, with the introduction and adoption of affordable entry-level 3D printers and increased availability and content. These entry-level desktop printers have increased market adoption by professional designers and education institutions. We expect that the adoption of desktop 3D printing will continue to increase in the future, in terms of design applications and engineering applications. We believe that the expansion of the market will be spurred by increased proliferation of 3D content and 3D authoring tools (3D computer-aided-design, or CAD, and other simplified 3D authoring tools), as well as increased availability of 3D scanners. We also believe that increased adoption of 3D printing will be facilitated by continued improvements in 3D printing technology and greater affordability of entry-level systems. We are active in facilitating the growth of the desktop 3D printing market by way of our investment in Ultimaker, a company created from the merger of our former subsidiary MakerBot with Ultimaker into a new combined desktop 3D printing market leader.
Stratasys solutions
Range of solutions
We provide integrated solutions throughout the production cycle for designers, engineers, manufacturers, dental and medical professionals, including compatible products and services designed for our customers’ use to effectively solve their specific application needs. Our solutions consist of 3D printing systems, consumables, software, paid parts, and professional services and encompass everything from prototyping and design all the way through manufacturing aids and production.
Our solutions allow our end-users to print 3D models, tools and parts that enhance their ability to visualize, verify and communicate product designs, thereby improving the design, development and validation processes and reducing time-to-market. Our systems create visual aids for concept modeling and functional prototyping to test fit, form and function, permitting rapid evaluation of product designs. Using presentation models developed with our systems, designers and engineers can typically conduct design reviews and identify potential design flaws earlier in the process and make improvements before incurring significant costs due to re-tooling and rework, allowing them to optimize a design much more rapidly and cost-effectively.
Our systems aid in the communication of ideas otherwise communicated in abstract or 2D media. For example, physicians use visually and/or biomechanically accurate 3D printed Stratasys models to plan surgical procedures. A model produced with our systems may be used as a sales tool, as a model or part display, or simply for use in conducting a focus group. It may also be used for accelerated collaboration in product design and manufacturing cycles at multiple locations, enabling visualization and tactile response, which can be critical to product development or sales process.
Our solutions also empower end-users to quickly and efficiently deploy parts to incorporate into their manufacturing process and improve its effectiveness while at the same time lowering costs. For instance, our solutions enable the production of manufacturing aids and tools such as jigs, fixtures, casts and injection molds aiding in the production and assembly process. These solutions are often faster to produce than through traditional methods, and frequently cost less. Materials like nylon carbon fiber enable these printed products to be both exceptionally strong and lightweight.
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Additive manufacturing of end-use-parts, using our solutions, is a growing focus of our offerings to customers, and is attractive in applications requiring fast, short-run or low-mid-volume parts where tooling would not be cost-efficient. Our solutions enable the production of objects that generally could not otherwise be manufactured through subtractive manufacturing methodologies.
In addition, our solutions enable doctors to train and plan medical procedures based on medical models, created by our printers, as well as create surgical guides to support complex surgeries. In the dental space, our PolyJet solutions enable dental labs to create patient-specific models and guides, including permanent dentures and temporary crowns and bridges, as well as devices for various applications, based on digital dentistry workflow.
Our solutions offerings are characterized by the following distinguishing qualities:
•material properties of printed objects, such as heat resistance, toughness, brittleness, elongation-to-break, color and flexibility;
•quality of printed objects measured by, among other things, resolution, accuracy and surface quality;
•consistency of produced parts in a run or batch;
•multiple production-grade modeling materials;
•reliability of printing systems;
•repeatability of parts manufacturing, enabling consistency;
•fast time to part;
•efficiency of operations with software workflows;
•customer service;
•cyber security of our systems;
•ease of use; and
•automatic, hands-free support removal and minimal post processing.
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Range of technologies and differentiating factors
Our solutions are driven by our proprietary technologies, which we have both developed organically and acquired over time through targeted acquisitions. We hold approximately 2,700 patents and pending patents internationally, and our 3D printing systems utilize our patented extrusion-based FDM®, inkjet-based PolyJet™, powder-bed-based SAF®, photopolymer-based P3™, and Neo® stereolithography technologies to enable the production of prototypes, tools used for production, and manufactured goods directly from 3D CAD files or other 3D content. We believe that our broad range of product and service offerings is a function of our 3D printing technology leadership.
FDM. A key attribute of our FDM® 3D printing technology is its ability to use a variety of production grade thermoplastic materials featuring surface resolution, chemical and heat resistance, color, and mechanical properties necessary for production of functional prototypes and parts for a variety of industries with specific demands and requirements. Use of these materials also enables the production of highly durable end parts and objects with soluble cores for the manufacture of hollow parts, the manufacture of which were previously dependent on slower and more expensive subtractive manufacturing technologies.
We believe this technology is differentiated by factors making it appropriate for 3D printing and additive manufacturing, including:
•ability to use FDM® systems in an office environment due to the absence of hazardous emissions;
•low post-production processing requirements;
•minimal material waste;
•build repeatability;
•ease of use, with minimal system set-up requirements;
•absence of costly replacement lasers and laser parts; and
•a high degree of precision and reliability.
PolyJet. Our inkjet-based 3D printing technology stands out for its scalability, high-resolution output, multi-material capabilities, and full-color printing down to the voxel level-all within both an industrial or office environment. PolyJet™ 3D printers produce smooth, high-resolution models that closely resemble final product designs. We provide a variety of resins, including rigid, flexible, medical-grade, and bio-compatible materials. PolyJet enables the simultaneous deposition of multiple materials, allowing single-build prints with diverse mechanical and physical properties. Users can create objects featuring both rigid and flexible parts or mix base colors to achieve specific tones. The technology supports over 500,000 color and texture combinations, including Pantone® Validated colors and clear materials that are nearly as transparent as glass. In 2022, we launched PolyJet solutions with 3DFashion™ technology for apparel, followed by FDA-cleared dental parts using TrueDent resin in 2023. In July 2024, we introduced the J5 Digital Anatomy Printer, further enhancing our medical systems offering for improved accessibility in medical care settings.
Stereolithography. Our stereolithography technology enables the production of high-quality, durable parts that meet the requirements of a wide range of applications, as well as additive manufacturing prototypes and tools. Industrial stereolithography systems are well-established in the 3D printing industry for applications such as large prototypes, tooling, investment casting patterns, and orthodontic clear aligner molds. They provide quality surface finish, large build sizes, a fast time to print, and an affordable cost per part. We believe that the Neo line of systems (acquired via RPS in February 2021) is superior
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relative to other solutions currently available due to an open choice of resins, system reliability, low service requirements, simple day-to-day operation, and accurate builds. With access to our strong global channels, we believe we can bring these benefits to many more manufacturing organizations. Our latest acquisition of the Covestro Additive Manufacturing business unit in April 2023 completed our stereolithography offering with the strong Somos® materials portfolio for stereolithography printers. Somos materials are widely known and appreciated for their mechanical properties, printing performance, high quality, and repeatable builds. These materials with our Neo systems offering will provide an attractive and differentiated offering over the current stereolithography solutions in the market.
P3. Our P3 resin-based 3D printing technology, acquired through Origin, offers excellent detail, mechanical properties, and throughput for production. We have a strong materials portfolio, including aerospace-grade flame-resistant and biocompatible materials from Forward AM (formerly BASF), Henkel, and Shin-Etsu. The P3 platform supports Preferred, Validated, and Open materials via our Open Materials Library (OML) license, providing access to a wide range of tested and optimized materials. It is software-based, cloud-connected, and uses GrabCAD Print for streamlined workflows. In September 2024, we introduced the next generation of Origin printers - Origin Two, which delivers top-tier accuracy, precision, repeatability, and enhanced reliability and safety. These innovations and our robust materials portfolio will drive adoption among industrial production customers.
SAF. Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF) technology was developed via our joint venture with Xaar plc, Xaar 3D Ltd., which we acquired in 2021. SAF is an industrial-grade additive manufacturing technology designed to deliver production-level throughput for end-use parts. Representing the culmination of more than 10 years of research and development, SAF-based 3D printers can deliver a competitive cost per part with the part quality, consistency, and reliability that ensures satisfaction and high production yield. The SAF technology uses a counter-rotating roller to coat powder bed layers onto a print bed and prints absorber fluid to image the part layers. The imaged layers are fused by passing an infrared lamp over the entire span of the print bed. SAF technology executes these key process steps in the same direction across the print bed to provide a uniform thermal experience - and therefore part consistency - for all printed parts regardless of their placement in the build. H Series™ 3D printers use SAF materials developed by leading third party materials providers, including PA11, which is derived from sustainable castor oil, and PA12, which is stiffer than PA11 and is ideal for applications where rigidity is important. We also plan to develop SAF materials internally as a result our acquisition of Covestro Additive Manufacturing.
We believe that the range of 3D printing consumable materials, together with the broad set of materials in our materials ecosystem, that we offer, is the widest in the industry. Our consumable materials consist of over 61 FDM spool-based filament materials, over 50 PolyJet cartridge-based resin materials, PolyJet materials can be combined digitally and yield a large variety of digital materials that reflect over 500,000 color variations, transparency, opacity and flexibility levels.
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Our competitive strengths
We believe that the following are our key competitive strengths:
•Differentiated product offerings with superior reliability and part quality. Our portfolio of 3D printing systems is differentiated through a combination of superior printing qualities, accuracy, print speed, system reliability the ability to print a range of materials with varying levels of strength, chemical and heat resistance, color and mechanical properties, the ability to print multiple materials simultaneously and suitability for office environments. Our offering is focused on high-end solutions to address customer needs from prototyping applications to complex manufacturing operations.
•Our FDM-based systems enable the highly precise printing of engineering and high-performance thermoplastic materials, enabling a wide range of manufacturing applications with little or no post-production processing.
•Our PolyJet inkjet-based systems are used in multiple prototyping solutions as well as in manufacturing applications, particularly in higher growth industries such as healthcare and dental. The systems jet ultra-thin layers of material, enabling voxel level control of the deposited materials, part realism (multi materials and colors), high accuracy and resolution and smooth finish to printed models. For use with these various types of systems we offer a wide variety of office-friendly resin consumables, including rigid, flexible (rubber-like), transparent and color materials. This unique quality printing system utilizes the simultaneous jetting of up to six materials to enable end-users to print models, in virtually unlimited combinations, in a single build.
•Our P3-based systems, which we added to our solutions portfolio via the acquisition of Origin, offer a best-in-class combination of detail, mechanical properties and throughput for mass manufacturing production parts. This addition allows us to expand our leadership through innovation in the fast-growing mass production parts segment in industries such as dental, medical, tooling, and select industrial, defense, and consumer good segments. The P3 technology is an advancement on DLP principles ,whereby liquid photopolymer resin is cured with light. Our Origin One 3D printers offer precisely controls light, heat, and force, among other parameters, via Origin's closed-loop feedback software. This new technology enables customers to build parts with industry-leading accuracy, consistency, size and detail, while using a wide range of commercial-grade, durable resins.
•Our powder bed fusion (PBF) SAF-based systems, which launched at the end of 2021, expand our total addressable market across multiple segments, including commercial goods (frequent demand for short and medium run production) aerospace, defense, and automotive (production parts at competitive speeds), consumer goods (pre-production parts, short runs, and specialty production), and service bureaus (an excellent high-utilization environment for a wide variety of components).
•Our industrial stereolithography RPS’ Neo line of systems/printers feature dynamic and variable laser beam technology that enables build accuracy, feature detail, excellent side wall quality and low variability across the full extent of a large build platform. As open resin systems, the Neo products provide customers a choice of materials that deliver a wide range of properties such as chemical resistance, heat tolerance, flexibility durability and optical clarity.
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•Integrated solutions offering/ecosystem- We believe our customers are looking for primary partner for polymer additive manufacturing, which we believe we are uniquely able to provide. We provide integrated solutions offering that include compatible products and services that are designed to meet the full gamut of our clients’ needs in an efficient manner, consisting of a broad range of systems, consumables, software and services, including:
◦3D printers;
◦materials;
◦GrabCAD software along with additional advanced software and AI-driven tools that enhance design preparation, workflow automation, and production optimization;
◦professional services;
◦parts on demand;
◦vertical applications;
◦partnerships and alliances; and
◦enhanced collaboration among industry professionals, via our GrabCAD Community, which provides engineers and designers a resource for CAD models and helps them communicate ideas and share designs.
•Proprietary technology platforms with multidisciplinary technological expertise. We believe that our proprietary 3D FDM, 3D inkjet-based PolyJet, P3 and SAF printing engines offer end users the versatility and differentiated features necessary for a wide variety of current and potential applications. We combine our proprietary hardware platforms, featuring widely-deployed inkjet printer heads or easy-to-use extrusion heads with integrated software and a wide range of proprietary materials to develop and produce leading 3D printing systems.
•Leading Direct Manufacturing Business. Our Stratasys Direct Manufacturing service business is one of the largest and leading AM parts service providers globally. This unit’s knowledge of and experience in AM, including materials and systems know-how, and AM end-use parts production has enhanced our manufacturing offering suite. For example, the Stratasys Direct team has helped accelerate our product development for the Origin One and H350 3D printers to improve their performance in production environments. Furthermore, Stratasys Direct enables us to offer a broader solution to our customers, catering to more of their 3D printing needs, whether by supply of 3D printers or of 3D printed parts through cross-sell or infinite capacity extension. We believe this offering creates better customer intimacy and a competitive advantage for Stratasys.
•Synergies between SDM and 3D printer sales businesses. Our Stratasys Direct® AM parts service business has been capitalizing on the synergies between it and our 3D printer sales business. Stratasys Direct Manufacturing works closely with our North American sales organization and benefits from access to some of the largest customers for our 3D printing systems, who have been increasingly relying upon Stratasys Direct for production parts and development needs.
•Diverse, global customer base. We have a broad customer base, ranging from global market leading brands to small businesses and professionals and individuals. Our end-users include companies across a wide range of industries and applications, including automotive, aerospace, dental laboratories, consumer products, educational institutions, defense, medical analysis, medical systems, electronics, and heavy equipment.
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•Large and growing installed base. Our differentiated offerings have led to a large and growing installed base. The significant installed base has resulted in greater distribution reach and enhanced opportunities for cross selling, given the significantly broadened and complementary product offerings. It furthermore presents us with an opportunity to generate recurring revenues from sales of consumables and services to the installed base.
•Extensive global reach. With over 140 value added channel partners around the world, we are well positioned to leverage the extensive geographic reach of our marketing, sales and support organization to serve customers and grow awareness of 3D printing for prototyping, design and manufacturing. This level of service and support is becoming an especially critical differentiator as our customers adopt 3D printing for more operationally critical manufacturing applications.
•Increased accessibility and ease of use for customers. Our GrabCAD Additive Manufacturing software platform and our GrabCAD Community enable designers, engineers, and machine operators to easily manage our 3D printing systems at scale.
•GrabCAD Print software provides native CAD job programming along with popular CAD and common 3D file formats (3MF, STL, VRML), thereby reducing time and errors in job planning and resulting in high quality printed parts. GrabCAD Print is offered in Standard (free) and Pro (subscription) variants for FDM, PolyJet, SAF, P3 and SL Stratasys technologies.
•GrabCAD Streamline Pro subscription software is a comprehensive workgroup software suite, powered by GrabCAD Print™. Designed to connect people, parts and printers, GrabCAD Streamline Pro reduces the effort in managing a company’s entire fleet of Stratasys 3D printers from one platform. It creates the opportunity for secure, centralized software workflows for efficient part production at any scale, regardless of the number of printers or types of parts printed. This thereby leads to higher efficiency, reduced cost and business process automation.
•GrabCAD Streamline Pro supports FDM and PJ Stratasys technologies, with plans to add support for SAF, DLP and SL Stratasys technologies in the future.
•GrabCAD IoT Platform is a solution designed to transform how customers manage their 3D printing operations and optimize additive manufacturing productivity. The GrabCAD® IoT Platform is available to Stratasys customers with GrabCAD® Streamline Pro™ workgroup software, with PolyJet J3/J5 Series™ printers and from Stratasys Customer Support. The solution is planned to be rolled out to other technologies in the future.
•GrabCAD Software Development Kits provide the means to create two-way integrations with third party software applications, including our GrabCAD Software Partners and our customers business systems, dramatically extending the value of our platform.
•GrabCAD Community is the online community of over 15 million professional engineers, designers, manufacturers, and students who share best practices via tutorials, discussion forums, design/print challenges and 3D content.
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Our growth strategy
We are guided by our “North Star” strategy, pursuant to which we are initially focused on providing a complete offering of polymers, which we view as the biggest potential profit pool in the industry, and after which we intend a full expansion into metals. By following this strategy, we expect to build a portfolio that can solve all customer needs related to 3D printing. Our solutions deliver value to every touchpoint across the product lifecycle.
At the heart of our strategy lies the development of end-to-end solutions tailored to specific manufacturing applications and use cases. These solutions empower our customers to fully leverage the benefits of Additive Manufacturing at scale. Our approach involves providing a full suite of all five polymer technologies, boasting the industry's most extensive materials portfolio, alongside an advanced software platform. We continuously augment our offerings to ensure a seamless and efficient workflow. Leveraging our profound expertise in application engineering, coupled with our unparalleled Go-to-Market infrastructure and resilient business model, we collaborate closely with customers to devise tailored solutions that meet their unique needs. Subsequently, we effectively scale these solutions to serve broader market demands.
The key elements of our strategy for growth include the following:
•Offering a full suite of all five polymer technologies. We offer five best-in-class technologies for every step in the product lifecycle - from concept through manufacturing, alongside the most expansive materials portfolio in the industry. We believe that the proliferation of 3D content, advancements in AM technology platforms and the introduction of improved materials will continue to drive growth in 3D printing. We expect to see that growth result in a major shift towards more manufacturing application solutions as compared to primarily focusing on design and prototyping. We will continue to invest in the identification of new applications (especially manufacturing applications) for which our proprietary printing technologies, software and materials are appropriate. This approach has resulted in the broadest offering of polymer 3D printing solutions in our industry, serving an unequalled array of end markets.
•Having the industry's most extensive materials portfolio, enabling us to address various applications effectively. We continuously bolster our portfolio through extensive in-house research and development efforts, leveraging our expertise to innovate and introduce new materials tailored to emerging market demands. Furthermore, strategic partnerships with third-party entities further enrich our portfolio, allowing us to access specialized materials and technologies. Additionally, we remain committed to strategic acquisitions that align with our portfolio expansion goals, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of material innovation within the industry.
•Adding more value through software, both from our partners and ourselves. We offer Industry 4.0-ready systems that include API integration to leading manufacturing software solutions. On the one hand, that makes it easier to add more systems and use them more intensively (“Connect one Stratasys printer- connect them all”) and on the other hand, it enables our obtaining new value from our software partners. Enabling our customers to see the systems and materials usage in real time helps them to enhance our own technological offerings much easier. This enables us to provide our customers with advanced remote features like remote support, predictive support and materials replenishment. That, in turn, generates sales of our integrated solutions.
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•Possessing deep application engineering experience. Our people have the deepest application engineering expertise in the industry, which allows us to educate customers and drive future innovation. We have in place today an offering of solutions that includes the complete gamut of compatible systems, consumables, software and services (parts on-demand, professional and expert consulting services) that are designed to meet our clients’ needs in an integrated, complete manner. We will seek to extend our technological capabilities by addressing manufacturing applications and continuing to invest in our R&D efforts, which focus on enhancing our current printing technologies as well as developing new innovative solutions for 3D printing and exploring inorganic opportunities for new printing technologies. We believe that by enhancing our AM technological capabilities and by developing and introducing new materials for our 3D printing and production systems, we will be able to increase both the size of, and our share of, the 3D printing marketplace.
•Possessing an unmatched Go-to-Market infrastructure. We believe our network of over 140 value-adding channel partners is the largest and most experienced in the industry. This is a competitive advantage that we believe is not easily or inexpensively replicated. Our goal is to reach new customers and increase sales to existing customers by leveraging that network and providing access to new solutions that address customers’ specific needs. These solutions include those offered by our Stratasys Direct Manufacturing service. As part of this strategy, we intend to grow awareness of 3D printing solutions for prototyping and manufacturing and to develop industry-specific sales channels as part of our effort to commercialize a broader range of new manufacturing and production applications.
•Having a resilient business model designed to scale as opportunities present themselves. Our corporate and Go-to-Market infrastructures are positioned to effectively absorb, scale and create operating leverage for key opportunities that can complement and grow our leading position in polymers as they arise, all while providing operating leverage to the company. We are also positioned to weather unexpected downturns like the one we have seen from the pandemic, and to scale up during times of growth, capturing market share and increasing revenues, margins, and earnings. We are not dependent on any one client or end market, as evidenced by our not having any one customer with which we are contractually engaged for sale of our products or services that represent greater than 10% of our revenues.
•Collaborating closely with customers to devise tailored solutions and to accelerate the adoption of 3D printing technology. We prioritize collaboration with our esteemed blue-chip customers to develop tailored solutions that meet their unique needs. Our deep relationships with these key stakeholders allow us to gain valuable insights into their challenges and requirements, enabling us to co-create innovative solutions together. By closely engaging with customers throughout the product development process, we identify opportunities to replace traditional manufacturing methods with cutting-edge additive manufacturing solutions. Together, we explore new use cases and applications, leveraging our combined expertise to drive efficiency, cost savings, and competitive advantages. Through this collaborative approach, we not only address immediate needs but also anticipate future industry trends, positioning ourselves as trusted partners in our customers' journey towards manufacturing excellence.
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Products and services
Our products
We offer a dedicated suite of products for applications such as rapid prototyping (RP), tooling, and manufacturing parts. Our products include 3D printing and post processing systems, consumable materials, software, paid 3D printed parts service, and support services.
Collectively, this portfolio of products offers a broad range of performance options for our customers, depending on their application, the nature and size of the designs, prototypes, and/or final parts desired. Our products are available at a variety of different price points and include entry-level industrial 3D printers, a range of mid-systems for prototyping and end use parts production, and large production systems for additive manufacturing at scale. We also offer a range of 3D printing materials (as described under “Consumable materials” below). The performance of our different systems varies in terms of capabilities, which are related to the following features:
•print speed;
•resolution;
•materials;
•resin cartridge capacity / filament spool size;
•maximum model (or tray) size;
•repeatability; and
•duty cycle, or the number of parts that a printer can produce over a given period of time without requiring maintenance.
Our systems are integrated with our software and are supported by services provided to our customers, both directly and through our reseller channel.
Printing systems
We offer a series of printing systems that address the largest parts of the addressable market for polymer 3D printing.
Our 3D printing systems, which are based on our proprietary FDM-(Fused Deposition Modeling), PolyJet, P3, SAF and stereolithography technologies, are described below:
FDM printers
Stratasys’ market-leading FDM portfolio of printers have exceeded a milestone of 35,000 installed printers. FDM printers are designed to meet a wide range of applications, from prototyping to manufacturing tools, to production parts. The F170, F370, F770, F190CR and F370CR models, are designed to meet end-to-end prototyping and jigs & fixtures applications mainly. Where as other larger scale printers like Fortus 450mc, F900 and F3300 models, largely suit the production of end parts as well as higher requirement jigs & fixtures, and tooling.
The F Series printers enable prototypes that range from rapid, economically-effective concept verification models in PLA material/ fast-draft mode, to advanced design validation prototypes using a 0.005-inch slice resolution and soluble support for unmatched precision, repeatability and aesthetics. The F Series product line allows users to create parts in PLA, ABS plus, ASA, TPU, ABS-ESD, Diran and PC-ABS materials, which parts therefore possess the strength required for true form, fit and functional testing. The F Series printers are designed to enable ease of use and maintenance while offering an easy-to-use, yet rich user experience with GrabCAD Print software. In 2022, we introduced the composite
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ready F190CR and F370CR hardened printers that can print Nylon 10CF. These new printers meet customer demand for manufacturing floor jigs, fixtures and tooling with a higher performance composite material. In 2024, we premiered the F3300, which established a new standard in FDM industrial 3D printing, with up to twice the speed and throughput of standard fused deposition modeling 3D printers. We have been shipping orders of the F3300 to leading companies in the automotive, aerospace and defense industries, along with commercial and industrial manufacturers.
The Stratasys Fortus 450mc 3D printer builds high-performance parts in customary materials, but with advanced complexity higher requirements needed for current-day production manufacturers. Fortus 450mc printer has carbon filled composites for functional prototypes, production parts and rugged tooling. Additionally, an acceleration of material development-of Validated Materials-has significantly expanded the application set. Furthermore, an option to license the Stratasys OpenAM™ parameter generator allows users to unlock and tune new custom materials. These systems are run via easy-to-use interfaces and software controls, making them user-friendly in producing complex parts more efficiently.
The Stratasys F900 printer offers a streamlined workflow and easier job-monitoring with an internal camera and GrabCAD Print software. Standard certifications are included, eliminating the effort and cost to qualify the 3D printer for the user’s production floor. Additionally, the Advanced Industrial Solution continues to qualify more materials, which allows a faster, simpler path for certifying additive manufactured parts for aerospace and transportation industry solutions.
In 2022, we divested our former subsidiary MakerBot, which was merged with Ultimaker. In connection with the merger, a distribution partnership was established whereby Stratasys-exclusive distributors can sell MakerBot and Ultimaker products.
PolyJet printers
Our PolyJet technology-based, high-end printing systems offer the ability to print multiple materials including color printing in a single part build. The Stratasys J8 Series printers break restrictive technology barriers, enabling customers to print eight different materials at the same time with more than 500,000 different color shades and textures, including Pantone® Validated colors, and multiple material properties— ranging from rigid to flexible, and opaque to transparent. They also 3D-print concept and functional models twice as fast as our previous generation printers, supported by a low-cost DraftGrey material. The J8 Series 3D printers support KeyShot 3D rendering software, enabling designers to save KeyShot designs directly in the new 3MF format and produce 3D printed models in a single day, when traditional modeling can take one-to-three weeks.
The J8 series of printers includes also the J850 TechStyleTM printer that allows 3D printing directly on different kinds of fabrics, enabling series productions in the fashion industry. With the J850 TechStyleTM we also offer our VeroEcoFlex range of materials developed for optimized performance on fabrics while meeting the fashion industry key sustainability standards (defined by leading companies in the industry).
Another industry-specific version of the J8 series is the Stratasys J850 Digital Anatomy™ printer that helps medical device companies optimize design throughout the product lifecycle. It 3D-prints with GelMatrix™ resin, TissueMatrix™ resin and BoneMatrix™ resin— three advanced materials which, when combined, form over 100 new, unique digital materials to suit anatomical applications. These materials, when used for 3D printing, produce medical models and anatomies that achieve a true-to-life feel and response. This includes both soft tissues, including organs and blood vessels as small as 1mm in diameter, as well as porous bone structures, fibrotic tissues, and ligaments. Recently, we released an additional unique software tool to our medical offering, the Digital Anatomy Creator, allowing seamless creation of different anatomical structures by customizing specific bio-mechanical properties and color
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using the available materials. This is an advanced differentiated extension of our GrabCAD software for medical users.
Our J55 Prime 3D Printer makes that same fast, full-color design realism accessible to designers and teams everywhere in an office-friendly format and smaller footprint. At about a third the price of J8 Series printers, the J55 utilizes five printer materials simultaneously, enabling nearly 400,000 colors or a variety of materials providing tactile, textual, and sensory capabilities. We also introduced a complementary J35™ Pro 3D printer in 2021, which is an all-in-one, multi material desktop 3D printer for designers and engineers needing up to three materials. Like the J8 printers, both J55 and J35 printers support KeyShot 3D rendering workflow with 3MF file format.
The J55 and J35 3D printers are also available in several industry-specific versions for the Dental and Medical. For Dental we have introduced the J5 DentaJetTM and the J3 DentaJetTM. The J5 DentaJetTM is the industry’s 3D printer able to accommodate mixed trays of dental parts and in 2024 we have also launch the J5 DentaJetTM XL that supports higher throughputs and lower cost per part. We have also recently launched our groundbreaking TrueDentTM Dentures solution for J5 DentaJetTM, which are FDA-cleared (class II) for dental appliances, including full and partial dentures. These unique materials enables batch production of highly aesthetic, monolithic, polychromatic dental appliances. The J3 DentaJetTM can produce mixed trays of various dental applications limited to three materials.
The medical industry-specific J55 versions are the J5 MediJetTM and the J5 Digital Anatomy™ printers. The J5 MediJetTM is designed to produce anatomic visual models and drilling and cutting guides that are sterilizable and biocompatible. The J5 Digital Anatomy™ printer was launch in 2024 and has similar capabilities to the J850 Digital Anatomy™ printer but in a compact accessible platform that supports 5 different resins.
Stereolithography printers
Our Neo® range of industrial stereolithography (SLA) 3D printers is renowned for delivering superior surface quality, accuracy, and detail. Ideal for large format and high yield volume applications from prototyping to tooling and master patterns, Neo printers utilize dynamic laser beam technology to ensure exceptional part accuracy and low variability across the entire platform. The Neo range of printers provides a significant build area in a small footprint, with simple day-to-day operation.
The latest of the Neo range, the Neo800+ printer, delivers exceptional speed and performance, producing injection mold-quality parts up to 50% faster than the Neo800 printer. Both the Neo800+ and Neo800 printers offer our largest build volume at 31.5 x 31.5 x 23.6 in., while the Neo450s printer addresses customer needs for smaller printers, at 17.72 x 17.72 x 15.75 in. Designed with an open resin system, the Neo series can run the most technically advanced SLA materials, including the Somos® resin range. The versatility enables applications requiring specialized properties such as chemical resistance, heat tolerance, flexibility, durability, and optical clarity.
All Neo printers are Industry 4.0-ready, powered by Titanium™ control software. This platform offers an expansive suite of capabilities—including an onboard camera, advanced reporting tools, and mid-build parameter customization—representing just a few of the features designed to maximize user control. Exclusive to the Neo800+, ScanControl+ further optimizes speed and precision, while LayerControl+ uses intelligent automation to adjust layer delay times based on build data for improved thermal regulation.
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Origin P3 printers
The Origin® 3D printers use P3™ (Programmable PhotoPolymerization) technology to precisely control light, heat, and force, among other variables, to produce parts with exceptional accuracy and consistency. We engage with a network of materials partners (like BASF, Henkel , Evonik, and Arkema), who work to develop a wide range of commercial-grade materials for this P3 system, resulting in some of the toughest and most resilient materials in additive manufacturing, as well as materials dedicated to specific applications that meet different industries’ standards, such as silicon. The Origin One printer and the range of available materials offer best-in-class printing technology based on digital light processing for production-oriented polymer applications and accelerates our expansion into mass production additive manufacturing. In 2024, we introduced the Origin Two printer that provides higher repeatability, accuracy, and consistency for parts production with a simplified printing workflow. Origin Two matches injection molding precision, unavailable with other resin 3D printers, enabling short production runs and on-demand manufacturing for applications that require superior quality and high part performance.
SAF printers
At the end of 2021, we began shipping the first SAF technology-based 3D printer, the H350, in the U.S. and Europe. Throughout 2023, we shipped the H350 printer to wider territories, including Asia, Israel and New Zealand H Series™ Production Platform printers such as the H350 are designed to give manufacturers production consistency, a competitive and predictable cost per part, and complete production control for volumes of thousands of parts. The H350 printer itself was manufactured with a dozen different 3D printed parts made with SAF technology. The printer is designed to meet the needs of customers in industries such as commercial goods, automotive, and consumer goods and electronics that benefit from the ability to quickly produce large volumes of 3D-printed parts with compelling and predictable economics. The H350 provides several control features designed to ensure the system is production-ready. All build data is logged for process traceability and remains fully under the customer’s control. Materials can be controlled, tracked and traced, and print settings can be fine-tuned for each customer’s needs. We offer customers validated third-party materials, including PA11 and PA12. We announced GrabCAD Print software for the H350 in late 2021.
Key vertical target markets for printing systems
To further strengthen our leadership position and following our strategy to deepen the focus on additive manufacturing, tooling and rapid prototyping for specific vertical markets, we have announced a variety of technology and go-to-market partnerships for various key vertical markets, such as automotive, aerospace, consumer products and healthcare.
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Consumable materials
We sell a broad range of Stratasys proprietary 3D printing materials, consisting of over 70 FDM spool-based filament materials, 50 PolyJet cartridge-based resin materials, five hybrid photopolymer resins for SL and DLP, and four powder materials for PBF. These materials (only PolyJet) yield a large variety of digital materials that reflect over 500,000 color variations, transparency, opacity and flexibility levels, for use in PolyJet 3D printers and provide our customers with all the tools needed to meet their broad application needs. Various of our printing materials are validated or certified in accordance with internationally-recognized standards. The sale of these materials provides us with a recurring revenue stream from users of our 3D printers and production systems. In addition, in 2021, we announced a new hybrid ecosystem model for materials which also enables sales of differentiated 3rd party materials for use in Stratasys systems as well. This Stratasys Material Ecosystem is designed to enable manufacturing customers to address new applications with demanding requirements through accelerated access to leading industry materials. The ecosystem includes the following material categories:
•Stratasys Preferred: Preferred by Stratasys for its customers for the highest-performance applications. These materials are engineered specifically for Stratasys printers to provide the best combination of material and printer performance and are developed either by Stratasys or third-party material partners. All currently available Stratasys-made materials are Stratasys Preferred.
•Stratasys Validated: Materials validated by Stratasys with basic reliability testing to accelerate the expansion of material options available in the marketplace.
•Open: Unvalidated materials accessible via an annual OpenAM™ Software License. These materials may offer unique attributes and the potential to address new applications but they have not received validation testing or optimization on Stratasys printers.
We believe this model will help accelerate the move to additive manufacturing at scale and encourage more utilization of its printers. Preferred and Validated materials are sold through Stratasys channels.
The materials we sell are described below:
FDM materials
The modeling and support filament used in our FDM 3D printers and production systems features a wide variety of production grade thermoplastic materials. We continue to develop filament modeling materials that meet our customers’ needs for increased speed, strength, accuracy, surface resolution, chemical and heat resistance, color, and mechanical properties. These materials are processed into our proprietary filament form, which is then utilized by our FDM systems. Our canister-based system has proven to be a significant advantage for our products, because it allows the user to quickly change material by simply mounting the lightweight spool and feeding the desired filament into the FDM print and production devices. Currently, we have a variety of build materials in multiple colors commercially available for use with our FDM technology.
Each material has specific characteristics that make it appropriate for various applications. The ability to use different materials allows the user to match the material to the end use application, whether it is a pattern for tooling, a concept model, a functional prototype, a manufacturing tool, or an end use part.
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PolyJet materials
Our resin consumables, which consist of our PolyJet family of proprietary acrylic-based photopolymer materials, enable users to create highly accurate, finely detailed 3D models and parts for a wide range of prototype development and customized manufacturing applications. The wide variety of resins within the PolyJet family is characterized by transparent, colored, or opaque visual properties and flexible, rigid or other physical properties. Support materials that are used together with the model materials enable the 3D printing of models with a wide array of complex geometries. Our resin-based materials are produced in-house and are specially designed for our printing systems.
We have invested significant research and development efforts in optimizing our PolyJet materials for use with inkjet technology. These efforts are reflected in the properties of these materials, which enable them to be packaged, stored, combined and readily cured upon printing. Our PolyJet materials are packaged in cartridges for safe handling and are suitable for use in office environments. The polymerized materials can also be machined, drilled, chrome-plated or painted in most cases.
Stereolithography materials
Our stereolithography materials came to us from our acquisition of the Covestro Additive Manufacturing SOMOS™ portfolio, which closed in early April 2023. These hybrid epoxy-acrylate materials offer a variety of functional prototyping solutions, by delivering flexible, durable, rigid, high temperature or clear properties, to simulate production-targeted polymers.
Additionally, several materials can be utilized for manufacturing applications, such as jigs and fixtures, investment casting, injection mold or composite tooling applications.
This range of materials enables us to offer a range of solutions, from concept modeling and prototyping, to manufacturing. In addition, we hold a leading patent position in the industry as a result of this portfolio.
Other Stratasys materials
Beyond this extensive breadth of materials for our technology platforms, we also have the capability to supply materials for non-Stratasys platforms.
We sell a broad range of additive manufacturing materials for non-Stratasys 3D printing systems through the iAM Marketplace™, our technology-neutral materials platform. These materials are offered under the iSQUARED, ForwardAM and Addigy brands, which were acquired as part of prior acquisitions. They are compatible with a wide variety of open and third-party additive manufacturing systems and support filament-based, powder-based and photopolymer-based technologies. The sale of these materials provides a recurring revenue stream independent of Stratasys hardware installations and allows customers to access a broad portfolio of industrial-grade materials for diverse applications.
The materials we sell for non-Stratasys systems are described below:
Filament materials
The filament materials offered for FDM and FFF printers consist of standard, engineering-grade and high-performance polymers, fiber-reinforced and flexible materials, as well as support filaments. They are designed to enable applications ranging from concept modeling and functional prototyping to tooling and end-use parts. The wide selection allows users to match materials’ performance to the specific requirements of their application.
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Powder materials
Our powder materials are used in polymer powder-based additive manufacturing technologies, including selective laser sintering, multi-jet fusion and related processes. The portfolio includes polyamide-based powders, polypropylene and elastomeric materials, supporting both prototyping and production applications.
Photopolymer materials
Our photopolymer materials consist of liquid resins for stereolithography, digital light processing and LCD-based printing systems. They provide a range of physical and visual properties, including rigid, flexible and engineering-grade characteristics, and enable the production of parts with high feature detail and surface quality.
In addition to our standard portfolio, we support customized material development for non-Stratasys systems to meet specific customer requirements. This capability allows customers to develop materials optimized for particular applications, mechanical properties, or production environments, enhancing the flexibility and utility of our non-proprietary materials offering. Overall, this range of consumables enables customers to access a broad spectrum of application-ready materials, supporting additive manufacturing workflows across heterogeneous hardware while providing consistency, performance, and choice.
Third-party materials partnerships
Further augmenting the Stratasys materials portfolio described above, we have developed an ecosystem of third-party materials partnerships. Today, these partnerships include the top materials companies in the AM industry, such as BASF, Henkel, Arkema, ALM, Kimya and more. Not only do these partnerships provide our customers with expanded application potential from the validated materials they offer, but they also provide us the opportunity to speed materials innovation through targeted collaboration.
Software
Software is an integral part of our solutions-based, go-to-market strategy. Built on cloud, desktop and mobile technologies, the GrabCAD Additive Manufacturing Platform is an open and enterprise-ready software platform that enables manufacturers to manage production-scale additive manufacturing operations. Stratasys’ platform is specifically designed for the unique needs of additive manufacturing across the entire digital thread - from design through production - while also integrating with Industry 4.0 infrastructure and enterprise applications. As of February 2026, the platform consists of more than 40,500 application users, 16,000 3D printers, and over 6,300 workflow users. The platform processes 35 gigabytes of data streams per day. Several components are included in the platform:
GrabCAD Print, our job programming software, enables the unique features of our 3D printing technologies such as creating lightweight, structurally sound infills for FDM, and multi-material and color and material management for PolyJet. The feature set of GrabCAD Print is designed to make the process of creating high-quality, highly detailed and accurate models accessible to users in Engineering and Design Offices, Enterprise Model Shops, Manufacturing and Health Care markets.
On top of GrabCAD Print, we also offer GrabCAD Print Pro. This is a package of new features and tools that extend the capabilities of GrabCAD Print Standard and are focused on improving accuracy and saving time for professional users. It includes features like: Accuracy center, labeling, automation, costing, split and repair.
GrabCAD Print natively reads commonly used 3D CAD file formats as well as traditional STL and VRML files, transforming them into instructions to drive our 3D printing systems. Our software provides a robust collection of features, including structural toolpath and infill controls, color and appearance
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management, multi-material management, automatic support generation, part scaling, positioning and nesting, as well as geometric editing capabilities.
The GrabCAD Print scheduling software includes capabilities to manage the operations of one or more printers including tray packing and optimization, job estimation, system availability, scheduling and monitoring via desktop, web or mobile devices. Additionally, analytics information is available in the form of standard utilization, material usage and job history reports enabling managers and operators to maximize the use of our 3D printing systems.
GrabCAD Streamline Pro subscription software is a comprehensive workgroup software suite, powered by GrabCAD Print™. Designed to connect people, parts and printers, GrabCAD Streamline Pro reduces the effort in managing a company’s entire fleet of Stratasys 3D printers from one platform. It creates the opportunity for secure, centralized software workflows for efficient part production at any scale, regardless of the number of printers or types of parts printed. This thereby leads to higher efficiency, reduced cost and business process automation. •GrabCAD Streamline Pro supports FDM and PJ Stratasys technologies, with plans to add support for SAF, DLP and SL Stratasys technologies in the future.
GrabCAD IoT Platform is a solution designed to transform how customers manage their 3D printing operations and optimize additive manufacturing productivity. The GrabCAD® IoT Platform is available to Stratasys customers with GrabCAD® Streamline Pro™ workgroup software, with PolyJet J3/J5 Series™ printers and from Stratasys Customer Support. The solution is planned to be rolled out to other technologies in the future.
The GrabCAD Software Development Kit (SDK) enables companies and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to integrate Stratasys 3D printing at production scale with existing design and manufacturing software applications infrastructure to support enterprise goals such as system connectivity, compliance and workflow automation. The GrabCAD SDK leverages standard protocols such as MTConnect and provides Application Programming Interfaces (API’s), documentation, sample code and a professional support network.
The GrabCAD Software Partner Program is available to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) wishing to integrate into the GrabCAD AM Platform. The GrabCAD Software Partner Program makes up a robust ecosystem of software partners in Additive Manufacturing powered by Stratasys. Stratasys provides access to the GrabCAD SDK- a complete set of developer tools to support system integration as well as support.
The GrabCAD Community is an online community of over 15 million professional engineers, designers, manufacturers and students who share best practices via tutorials, discussion forums, design/print challenges and 3D content.
Our software is available in nine languages to promote usage in the regions worldwide in which we operate.
Online Community
GrabCAD Community
We operate the GrabCAD Community for mechanical engineers, designers, manufacturers and students where members can share best practices via tutorials, discussion forums, and design/print challenges. This community had more than 16 million members and over six million CAD files available for free download as of the end of 2025.
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Our services
Support services and warranty
Customer support
Our customer success department provides on-site system installation, operator training, a full range of maintenance and repair services and remote technical support to users of our products. We provide support to our customers directly and through our resellers, ensuring that support and parts may be readily obtained worldwide. We also offer advanced training to our customers and preventive maintenance, particularly on our high-performance systems. Our support network consists of the following:
•Stratasys-certified engineers who provide worldwide, on-site installation, training and support;
•direct support engineers through our company;
•indirect support engineers through certified partners, including third-party service organizations or selected resellers who provide support for our systems;
•phone and direct on-site company support in eight languages, and resellers indirect support in local languages;
•service logistics in key regional centers;
•training facilities and resources in regional centers;
•customer-relationship management (CRM) system and learning management system (LMS) to ensure high-quality support for our customers and resellers, including secure remote access to a customer service database containing service history and technical documentation to aid in troubleshooting and repairing systems;
•free content on YouTube to help self-maintenance and troubleshooting;
•support, tools and up-to-date information to our direct customer and distribution channels from our product support engineering team;
•full range of commercial service programs to support the high utilization of our 3D printers and our customers’ unique needs; and
•an e-commerce platform allowing for smooth and fast purchasing of our 3D printing materials, and also opening service tickets and following their status.
Our goal is to ensure maximum uptime and productivity for our AM systems. In order to do so, we regularly update the technical documentation related to our systems, offer extensive training courses for operators and promote proactive knowledge sharing designed to help users maximize the value of their equipment and to expand the applications for which they employ our 3D printing and production systems.
We offer services on a time and materials basis, as well as a full range of post-warranty maintenance contracts with varying levels of support and pricing, as described below under “Extended support programs.” Customer support is represented on cross-functional product development teams within our company to ensure that products are designed for serviceability and to provide our internal design and engineering departments with feedback on field issues. Failure analysis, corrective action, and continuation engineering efforts are driven by data collected in the field. Ongoing customer support initiatives include the development of advanced diagnostic and troubleshooting techniques and comprehensive preventative maintenance programs, an expanded training and certification program for Stratasys and Stratasys partners’ technical personnel, and improved communication between the field and the factory.
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Basic warranty
Our printing systems are sold with warranties that range from 90 days to, typically, one year from installation, depending upon the product line and geographic location.
Warranties are typically accompanied by on-site maintenance support. Receipt of maintenance and repair services after the warranty period is subject to the terms of our extended support programs, to the extent purchased by the end-user, as described below.
Extended support programs
Recognizing that our end-users have varying support needs, we offer a range of support programs that enable our end-users to continue to receive maintenance services beyond the initial warranty period. These support programs contain varying degrees of the support services described above and are priced accordingly.
As part of our support programs, in light of our being subject to FDA regulation with respect to our first certified medical device with TrueDent resin, we have in place suitable processes to support customer complaints under the FDA’s standards.
Leasing and other services
We have arrangements, in certain countries, in which third-party financial institutions independently provide lease financing directly to our customers, on a non-recourse basis to the Company. In these arrangements, we sell and transfer title of the equipment to these financial institutions. Generally, we have no continuing ownership rights in the equipment subsequent to its sale. In addition, we provide pay-per-usage subscription services for our 3D printers and 3D production systems via partners in our global manufacturing network. The revenues generated from such program were insignificant.
We also offer a ‘Try and Buy’ program, which provides businesses the ability to try out a 3D printer prior to deciding whether or not it’s the right fit for their company.
The potential purchasers of a 3D printer receive customer support from our company during the trial period.
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing on-demand parts manufacturing service
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing is a contract manufacturing service provider of parts on-demand via polymer 3D printing processes. With over 30 years of experience, Stratasys Direct provides rapid prototyping and production parts using the broadest set of polymer additive technologies of any service bureau in North America and backed by experts ready for the most complex projects. Our digital factories are ISO 9001 certified, with AS9100 and ISO 13485 certifications supporting aerospace and medical end-use part production, respectively. With Stratasys Direct, customers can quickly design, innovate and meet demands of any complexity or scale by accessing the right expertise, industrial-grade 3D printing technologies, and materials without the capital expense. Stratasys Direct pioneered additive manufacturing production applications and specializes in guiding customers from concept development and prototyping through short-run production and long-term manufacturing. Stratasys and Stratasys Direct work together to help Stratasys customers meet their needs with infinite manufacturing capacity or access to technologies or material they do not have in-house.
Stratasys Direct Manufacturing also operates a manufacturing ecommerce platform for quick-turn parts, offering free shipping and expedite/economy delivery options, which enables its customers to obtain quotes and order parts around the clock, seven days a week.
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Customers
We have a diverse set of customers worldwide, including, among other prominent companies: General Motors; Toyota; BAE Systems; Boeing; Blue Origin, the U.S. Military and the Mayo Clinic. No single customer or group of affiliated customers nor any individual sales agent or group of affiliated sales agents accounted for more than 10% of our sales in 2025, 2024, or 2023. Our solutions are used across a wide array of applications in a variety of different industries.
Marketing, sales and distribution
Marketing
Our marketing strategies are tailored to achieve several key objectives. These include raising awareness of our brand and offering and establishing thought leadership in manufacturing and key relevant spaces for AM industry and our solutions and product areas. We also aim to build our brand leadership across multiple industries, including automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, dental, fashion, education, and consumer goods. Furthermore, we are committed to expediting and enhancing sales growth while enhancing customer loyalty and lifetime value.
To attain these goals, we execute a multichannel approach that encompasses thought leadership and PR initiatives, digital campaigns, full funnel buyer journeys on our website and our marketing automation eco-system, events and impactful product launches. Integrated campaigns serve to deepen connections with our existing customer base while expanding our reach to attract new clients. This approach stimulates demand and generates leads and opportunities across our strategic markets, encompassing both our direct operations and our extensive network of resellers.
Our marketing arsenal combines inbound and outbound strategies for maximum impact. Inbound tactics leverage digital platforms, including blogs, social media, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), email marketing, engaging webinars and assets to nurture leads. On the outbound front, we deploy digital communication campaigns, execute public relations efforts, use sales representatives with direct outreach, host virtual and in-person tradeshows and roadshows, and orchestrate thought leadership events. We maintain an active presence in newsletters, industry associations, and leverage referrals to bolster our engagement.
Additionally, our regional offices across the globe house state-of-the-art product and technology demonstration facilities, reinforcing our commitment to showcasing our solutions effectively.
Our resellers are integral to our success, and we support their growth by providing essential marketing tools, trainings and content. We offer a comprehensive suite of marketing resources, including brochures and product guides, “campaign in a box” kits and extend co-marketing opportunities to enhance their visibility and drive pipeline. To ensure their competence in marketing and selling our products, we offer training and education programs.
We closely monitor and assess the outcomes of our marketing initiatives, continuously striving to discern evolving customer needs. This analysis informs our product roadmaps and individual marketing plans, enhancing distribution optimization and facilitating seamless product release, ramp-up, and sales processes.
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Sales distribution methods
Our sales organization sells, distributes and provides follow-up support services with respect to our AM systems and related consumables, through a worldwide sales and marketing infrastructure. We generally use two methods for distribution and support: (i) sales to resellers who purchase and resell our products (including materials) and through whom follow-up support and maintenance services and replacement parts are provided to end-users; and (ii) direct sales of systems or services to end-users without the involvement of any intermediaries, for which all aspects of our sales and follow-up services are handled exclusively by our company. Our resellers are overseen by regional managers and some resellers operate on a non-exclusive basis, although we believe that most do not sell competing AM systems.
Almost all of the reseller locations that distribute our products have our AM systems available for tradeshows, product demonstrations, and other promotional activities. Additionally, many of them enjoy a long-term presence and offer third-party 3D CAD software packages in their respective territories, enabling them to cross-sell our systems to customers who purchase those other products.
In addition to traditional direct sales and reseller-based sales of our AM systems and related consumables, we also utilize an online customer/partner digital hub which serves as a direct digital method for distribution of our products. The online hub acts as a point of sale for consumables, software and spare parts to end-users who own our systems.
Geographic structure of sales organization
The primary sales organization for our 3D printers and production systems including related consumables, materials and services is divided into groups based on the following geographical regions: Americas; Europe and Middle East; APAC. This structure allows us to align our sales and marketing resources with our diverse customer base. Our sales organization in each region provides sales support to the network of independent reseller and sales agent locations throughout the particular region. We also operate sales and service centers in various locations throughout the Americas and internationally, including: Baden-Baden, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan.
We believe that this strong geographic distribution of our sales organization, along with our manufacturing capabilities in various locations (as described below under “Manufacturing and suppliers— Manufacturing”) could positively impact our business. Given the increased tariff rates and reciprocal tariffs imposed by the U.S. administration and other countries (as described above under “Item 3.D. Risk Factors— Risks related to our business and financial condition— Import tariffs, taxes, customs duties and other trading regulations…”), our ability to manufacture and distribute our products in the countries and regions in which our customers are located, without becoming subject to those tariffs, could be a competitive advantage for us. In particular, we manufacture most of our industrial solutions in the U.S. (at our Minnesota facilities), which should enable us to minimize tariffs when selling those solutions to the U.S. market, which is our largest single market. The capability of our solutions being produced near our customers should benefit our customers from a tax perspective on a global basis, by reducing excess multi-jurisdictional taxation.
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Manufacturing and suppliers
Manufacturing
The manufacturing process for our 3D printing and production FDM, PolyJet, stereolithography (or SLA), and P3 (digital light printing) technology systems consists of assembling those systems using both off-the-shelf and customized components manufactured specifically for us and producing and packaging the consumables products to be used by those systems. Our core competencies include FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems assembly and integration, software installation and resin and filament manufacturing. The majority of those activities are done internally at our facilities. We currently operate on a build-to-forecast basis and obtain all parts used in the FDM and PolyJet systems manufacturing process from either distributors of standard electrical or mechanical parts or custom fabricators of our proprietary designs. Our manufacturers and suppliers are periodically assessed by us based on their on-time performance and quality.
We purchase major component parts for our FDM, PolyJet SLA and DLP systems from various suppliers, subcontractors and other sources, and test those parts in our U.S., Israeli and U.K facilities.
Computer-based Material Requirements Planning, or MRP, is used for reordering to better ensure on-time delivery of parts and raw materials. Operators and assemblers are trained on assembly and test procedures including Assembly Requirement Documents, which originate in engineering. In the manufacturing processes for our FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems, and for our consumables, we employ a Quality Management System, or QMS, that meets international quality standards including ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003, in the case of medical devices. We also outsource the manufacturing of main subassemblies up to fully assembled systems ready for integration.
The system assembly process for our FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems includes semi-automated functional tests of key subassemblies. Key functional characteristics are verified through these tests, and the results are stored in a statistical database.
Upon completion of the assembly of our 3D printing and production FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems, we perform complete power up and final quality tests to help ensure the quality of those products before shipment to customers. The final quality tests must be run error-free before the FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems can be cleared for shipment. We maintain a history log of all FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP products that shows revision level configuration and a complete history during the manufacturing and test process. All identified issues on the FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP systems during the manufacturing process are logged, tracked and used to make continuous production process improvements. The commonality of designs among our different FDM, PolyJet, SLA and DLP product families eases the transition to manufacturing new designs.
Our filament production have used Factory Physics® techniques to manage critical buffers of time, capacity and inventory to ensure product availability. We also use the “5S” method (Sort, Set-in-order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain) and a continuous improvement system as part of our lean manufacturing initiatives to improve organization and efficiency.
Inventory and suppliers
We maintain an inventory of parts to facilitate the timely assembly of products required by our production plan. While most components are available from multiple suppliers, certain components used in our systems and consumables are only available from single or limited sources. In particular, the printer heads for our PolyJet 3D printing systems are supplied by a sole supplier, Ricoh. We consider our single and limited-source suppliers (including Ricoh) to be reliable, but the loss of one of these suppliers could result in the delay of the manufacture and delivery of the relevant components (and, ultimately, of our
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products). This type of delay could require us to find and re-qualify the component supplied by one or more new vendors. Although we consider our relationships with our suppliers to be good, we continue to develop risk management plans for these critical suppliers. In order to hedge against the risk of a discontinuation of the supply of our inkjet printer heads in particular, we maintain a reasonable supply of excess inventory of printer heads.
Ricoh Agreement
We purchase the printer heads for our inkjet 3D printing systems from Ricoh pursuant to an OEM Purchase and License Agreement with Ricoh, or the Ricoh Agreement.
Under the Ricoh Agreement, we place orders for print heads and associated electronic components, or the Ricoh Products. Together with provision of these items, Ricoh provides us with a non-transferable, non-exclusive right to assemble, use and sell the Ricoh Products under Ricoh’s patent rights and trade secrets.
Pricing under the Ricoh Agreement depends on the quantity of Ricoh Products that we purchase during any given month, and to the extent that we commit to a certain annual minimum prior to an upcoming year, we receive a set, discounted price for all Ricoh Products ordered during that upcoming year.
The Ricoh Agreement ran for an initial term of five years (which we renewed in September 2016) and automatically renews for additional one-year periods thereafter unless either party provides the other six months’ advance written notice of termination prior to the end of the then-current term. The Ricoh Agreement may be cancelled by either party if (i) the other party substantially breaches any material provision of the agreement and has not cured such breach within 30 days of receipt of written notice thereof, or (ii) upon the occurrence of certain bankruptcy events, and may furthermore be cancelled by Ricoh if we fail to cure a breach of an undisputed payment obligation within thirty (30) days of the breach.
At any time during the term of the Ricoh Agreement, Ricoh may discontinue the manufacture and supply of a print head model, so long as it provides us with at least eighteen (18) months’ prior written notice of such discontinuance and honors all of our purchase orders for the subject print head model within the notice period. During the period of five years from the earlier of either the termination of the Ricoh Agreement or the date of discontinuance of the manufacture of Ricoh Products (that is, following the 18-month notice period described in the previous sentence), we are entitled to purchase additional Ricoh Products for the sole purpose of providing replacements for the installed base of Ricoh Products, including one final purchase order that we may place in the final year of such five-year period and that must be filled by Ricoh within twelve months of when it is placed.
The Ricoh Agreement may not be assigned by either party without the other party’s prior written consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld.
Research and development
We maintain an ongoing program of research and development, or R&D, to develop new systems and materials and to enhance our existing product lines, as well as to improve and expand the capabilities of our systems and related software and materials. This includes significant technology platform developments for our FDM, PolyJet, P3, SAF and SLA technologies, our AM systems, including our integrated software, our family of proprietary acrylic-based photopolymer materials for PolyJet, SL and P3 technologies, and our family of proprietary thermoplastic materials for FDM printing. Our research aims to develop both incremental and disruptive improvements, as well as more affordable products. Our engineering development efforts also focus on customer requested enhancements, and development of new modeling processes, software and user applications. In particular, we have devoted significant time and resources to the development of a universally compatible and user-friendly software system.
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Our R&D department is divided into groups based on scientific disciplines and product lines. We continue to standardize our product platforms, leveraging each new design so that it will result in multiple product offerings that are developed faster and at reduced expense.
We invest a significant amount of our resources in R&D, because we believe that superior technology is a key to maintaining a leading market position. Our net R&D expenses were approximately $77.3 million, $99.1 million and $94.4 million in the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Our consumable materials development and production operations for our FDM, PolyJet, P3, SLA and SAF systems are located at our facilities in Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Rehovot, Israel; Kiryat Gat, Israel; Elgin, Illinois; Geleen, Netherlands; and Lengwil, Switzerland. We regard the consumable materials formulation and manufacturing process as a trade secret and hold patent claims related to these products. We purchase and formulate raw materials for our consumables production from various polymer resin and thermoplastic materials suppliers with different levels of processing and value-add applied to the raw materials.
Intellectual property
We consider our proprietary technology to be important to the development, manufacture, and sale of our products and seek to protect such technology through a combination of patents, trade secrets, and confidentiality agreements and other contractual arrangements with our employees, consultants, customers and others. All patents and patent applications for additive manufacturing processes and apparatuses associated with our technology were assigned to us by those inventors. The principal granted patents relate to our FDM systems, our PolyJet technologies, our 3D printing processes and our consumables, certain of which have already expired and certain of which have expiration dates ranging from 2026 to 2044.
We are also a party to various licenses and other arrangements that allow us to practice and improve our technology including a patent license agreement with Cornell University providing access to certain tool changer patents.
In addition, we own certain registered trademarks and make use of a number of additional registered and unregistered trademarks, including “Stratasys”, the Stratasys Signet logo, “Objet”, “PolyJet”, “Connex”, “J8 Series”, “J850”, “J826”, “J750”, “J700”, “J5”, “J35”, “J55”, “Vero”, “VeroFlex,” “VeroEco”, “VeroUltra”, “VeroVivid”, “Tango”, “Durus”, “Rigur”, “Elastico”, “Digital ABS”, “TrueDent”, “TrueDent-D”, “PolyJet ToughONE”, “ProBleacher”, “ProSurface”, “FDM”, “Fortus”, “F123 Series”, “F370”, “F900”, “F770”, “F3300”, “Fortus 450mc”, “Insight”, “Antero”, “Diran”, “XTEND”, “Origin”, “Origin One”, “P3”, “Stratasys Direct Manufacturing”, “Stratasys Direct”, “GrabCAD”, “GrabCAD Community”, “GrabCAD Print”, “GrabCAD Print Pro”, “GrabCAD Shop”, “GrabCAD Streamline”, “OpenAM”, “ProtectAM”, “DentaJet”, “Medijet”, “Digital Anatomy”, “TissueMatrix”, “GelMatrix”, “BoneMatrix”, “RadioMatrix”, “3DFashion”, “TechStyle”, “FabriX”, “Neo”, “Neo800”, “Neo450”, “Titanium”, “Titanium Assistant”, “H350”, “H Series”, “SAF”, “Big Wave”, “Selective Absorption Fusion”, “PowderEase”, “ReLife”, “Somos”, “WaterClear”, “WaterShed”, “PerFORM”, “WeatherX”, “Addigy”, “RapidQuotes”, “Mindful Manufacturing”, “AccelerateAM”, “iAM Marketplace”, “iSQUARED”, “ForwardAM”, “Ultracur3D”, “UltraFuse” and “UltraSint”.
We believe that, while our patents provide us with a competitive advantage, our success depends on our marketing, business development, applications know-how and ongoing research and development efforts, in addition to our rights under granted and pending patents. Accordingly, we believe that the expiration of any single patent, or the failure of any of single patent application to result in an issued patent, would not be material to our business or financial position. In any event, there can be no assurance that our patents or other intellectual property rights will afford us a meaningful competitive advantage.
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Please see the risk factor related to the expiration of our patents in “Item 3.D. Risk Factors— Risks related to our intellectual property.”
Competition
Our principal competitors consist of other developers of additive manufacturing systems as well as other companies that use fused deposition modeling or inkjet-based or vat polymerization or digital light processing (DLP) or power bed fusion technologies to compete in additive manufacturing.
The companies that offer these technologies to compete with us include, inter alia, 3D Systems Corporation, EOS GmbH, HP, Carbon, Inc., Formlabs, and Nano.
These technologies, which compete for additive manufacturing users, possess various competitive advantages and disadvantages relative to one another within the key categories upon which competition centers, including resolution, accuracy, surface quality, variety and properties of the materials they use and produce, capacity, speed, color, transparency, the ability to print multiple materials and others. Due to these multiple categories, end-users usually make purchasing decisions as to which technology to choose based on the characteristics that they value most. This decision is often application specific. The competitive environment that has developed is therefore intense and dynamic, as players often position their technologies to capture demand in various verticals simultaneously.
We are positioned to compete in our industry mainly on the following bases, which we view as competitive strengths:
•material properties of printed objects, such as heat resistance, toughness, brittleness, elongation-to-break, color and flexibility;
•quality of printed objects measured by, among other things, resolution, accuracy and surface quality;
•multiple production-grade modeling materials;
•our offering of the best multi-color, multi-material 3D printing systems in the market;
•reliability and repeatability of our printing systems;
•ease of use, including of one-step automated modeling process.
•automated, hands-free support removal;
•high level of customer service; and
•deep application domain know-how and expert services, including among our channel network.
We offer a wide range of systems with varying features, capacities and price points. We believe that this enables us to compete with the other additive manufacturing technologies for a wide range of customers with a variety of applications and goals for their additive manufacturing.
We also compete with companies that use traditional prototype development and customized manufacturing technologies, and we expect future competition to arise from the development of new technologies or techniques.
Seasonality
Historically, our results of operations were subject to seasonal factors. Stronger demand for our products historically occurred in our fourth quarter primarily due to our customers’ capital expenditure budget cycles and our sales compensation incentive programs. Our first and third quarters historically were our weakest quarters for overall unit demand. The first quarter was typically a slow quarter for capital expenditures in general. The second quarter was typically when we would see our largest volume
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of educational related sales, which normally qualified for special discounts as part of our long-term penetration strategy.
Since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (ever since 2019), however, our historical seasonality pattern has been disrupted, and we have not seen a steady pattern as to the level of demand in the various quarters from year to year.
We experience seasonality within individual fiscal quarters, as a substantial percentage of our system sales often occur within the last month of each fiscal quarter. This trend has the potential to expose our quarterly or annual operating results to the risk of unexpected, decreased revenues in the case of our inability to build systems, consummate sales and recognize the accompanying revenues prior to the end of a given quarter.
Global operations
We have offices in, among other locations, Brazil, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States, and organize our operations by geographic region, focusing upon the following key regions: the Americas; Europe and Asia Pacific. Our products are distributed in each of these regions, as well as in other parts of the world. Our customers are dispersed geographically, and we are not reliant on any single country or region for most of our product sales and services revenues, although 59.7% of our 2025 revenues were generated in the Americas and our Stratasys Direct Manufacturing printed parts services are primarily based in the United States and therefore reliant on United States customers. A breakdown of our consolidated revenues by geographic markets and by categories of operations (that is system, consumables and services) for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 is provided in “Item 5.A. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects— Operating Results.” In maintaining global operations, our business is exposed to risks inherent in such operations, including currency fluctuations, market conditions, and inflation in the primary locations in which our operating expenditures are incurred. Information on currency exchange risk, market risk, and inflationary risk appears elsewhere in this annual report in “Item 3.D. Risk Factors” and in “Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk— Foreign Currency Exchange Risk”.
Employees
The total number of our full-time equivalent employees, and the distribution of our employees (i) geographically and (ii) within the divisions of our company, in each case as of December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, are set forth in this annual report in “Item 6.D. Directors, Senior Management and Employees— Employees”.
Government regulation
We are subject to various local, state and federal laws, regulations and agencies that affect businesses generally. These include:
•regulations promulgated by federal and state environmental and health agencies;
•foreign environmental regulations, as described under “Environmental, Social and Governance Matters” immediately below;
•the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration;
•the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act;
•laws pertaining to the hiring, treatment, safety and discharge of employees;
•export control regulations for U.S. made products;
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•Israeli tax regulations, as described under “Israeli Tax Considerations and Government Programs” below;
•CE regulations for the European market; and
•medical device regulations, such as the U.S. FDA Code of Federal Regulations.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability
At Stratasys, we recognize the significant role Additive Manufacturing plays in shaping a more sustainable, resilient, and responsible industrial future. Guided by our Mindful Manufacturing™ strategy, we integrate ESG principles into our business to manage environmental impacts, advance responsible innovation, and create long-term value for our stakeholders.
In 2025, we marked an important milestone with the publication of our Fourth Sustainability report, prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, with references applicable to Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards for the hardware sector (TC-HW). This is a reflection of our continued progress in embedding sustainability across our operations, products, and value chain. This report builds on the momentum of prior years and reinforces our commitment to transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
As further affirmation of our sustainability roadmap, we maintained our EcoVadis Silver rating in 2025, placing Stratasys in the top 15% of companies assessed globally. This recognition reflects the strength of our policies, governance, and performance across environmental stewardship, ethics, labor and human rights, and sustainable procurement.
Environment
In 2025, we continued to advance our environmental strategy with a focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction, renewable energy adoption, and responsible resource management across our global footprint. As part of our fourth Sustainability Report, we disclosed a comprehensive GHG emissions inventory across Scopes 1, 2, and—for the first time—Scope 3 categories, wholly comprehensive year-over-year analysis, as relevant to our sector, enhancing transparency across our value chain. We further strengthened our environmental management framework by extending ISO 14001 certification to our EMEA headquarters, SMACS manufacturing site and our new ARCH headquarters, reinforcing consistent environmental controls and continuous improvement across regions.
Circularity and waste reduction remain central to our environmental approach. Our SAF ReLife™ Solution continued to scale in 2025, supporting material reuse and lifecycle extension while reducing waste sent to landfill. These efforts are complemented by software enhancements to GrabCAD® Print and GrabCAD Print Pro™, including expanded carbon emissions estimation capabilities, that enable customers to better understand and manage the environmental impact of their additive manufacturing operations. By integrating sustainability insights directly into production workflows, we help customers decarbonize manufacturing while maintaining performance and productivity.
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Social
Our people and communities are foundational to our success. In 2025, we continued to invest in employee development, inclusion, and wellbeing, building on strong programs introduced in prior years. We expanded access to learning and professional development opportunities, strengthened our global approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and maintained a strong focus on employee engagement and retention.
Employee health and safety remain a top priority. In 2025, we expanded ISO 45001 certification to our EMEA headquarters, SMACS manufacturing site and our new ARCH headquarter and further embedded our global Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) management system. This system enables proactive risk management, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in workplace safety across our global operations.
Our Customer First philosophy extends beyond products and services. In 2025, we continued to broaden our community impact initiatives, supporting programs in education, healthcare, and disaster relief. These efforts reflect our commitment to creating shared value and contributing positively to the communities in which we operate.
Governance
Strong governance underpins our approach to sustainability, risk management, and ethical business conduct. Stratasys operates under a comprehensive Code of Conduct that applies globally and reflects our core values of integrity, accountability, and respect. These standards extend throughout our value chain via our Supplier Code of Conduct, which sets clear expectations for ethical behavior, environmental responsibility, labor practices, and human rights.
In 2025, we further enhanced supplier sustainability governance, creating dialogue with suppliers and assessing them according to ESG parameters. These efforts strengthen supply chain resilience, support responsible sourcing, and align with our broader ESG risk management framework.
We also maintain ongoing leadership oversight of sustainability under the guidance of S. Scott Crump— Stratasys co-founder, long-standing director, and inventor of FDM® technology— as ESG & Climate Champion on the Board of Directors. This role strengthens Board-level engagement and underscores the strategic importance of ESG and climate considerations for our long-term growth.
Stakeholder engagement remains central to our governance approach. We continue to align our disclosures with leading international ESG reporting standards and provide transparent reporting on our goals, progress, and impacts through regular sustainability reporting.
Through innovation, collaboration, and responsible business practices, Stratasys seeks to set a benchmark for sustainability in the Additive Manufacturing industry. We collaborate with customers, suppliers, industry partners, employees, and investors, to continue to advance sustainability across the AM ecosystem. At the same time, we sustain a relevant, credible and effective ESG strategy, with measurable outcomes and environmental benefits. Guided by our Mindful Manufacturing™ philosophy, we aim to 3D Print a Better Tomorrow™, integrating ESG principles into the technologies and solutions that help our customers and communities thrive.
Israeli and Multinational Tax Considerations and Government Programs
Tax regulations also have a material impact on our business, particularly in Israel where we are organized and have one of our headquarters. The following is a summary of certain aspects of the current tax structure applicable to companies in Israel, with special reference to its effect on us (and our operations, in particular). The following also contains a discussion of the Israeli government programs applicable for us. To the extent that the discussion is based on new tax legislation that has not been
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subject to judicial or administrative interpretation, we cannot assure you that the tax authorities or the courts will accept the views expressed in this discussion. This discussion does not address all of the Israeli tax provisions that may be relevant to our Company. For a discussion of the Israeli tax consequences related to ownership of our capital stock, please see “Israeli Taxation Considerations” in Item 10.E below.
General Corporate Tax Structure in Israel
Generally, Israeli companies are subject to corporate tax on their taxable income. Since 2018, the corporate tax rate has been 23%. However, the effective tax rate payable by a company that derives income from an “Approved Enterprise”, a “Beneficiary Enterprise” or a “Preferred Enterprise”, a “Special Preferred Enterprise”, a “Preferred Technology Enterprise” or “Special Preferred Technology Enterprise” as further discussed below, may be considerably lower. See “Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments” in this Item below. Capital gains derived by an Israeli company are generally subject to the prevailing regular corporate tax rate.
Besides being subject to the general corporate tax rules in Israel, we have also, from time to time, applied for and received certain grants and tax benefits from, and participate in, programs sponsored by the Government of Israel, described below.
Israeli Law for the Encouragement of Industry (Taxation), 1969
The Company is an “Industrial Company” as defined by the Israeli Law for the Encouragement of Industry (Taxation), 1969, and, as such, is entitled to certain tax benefits including accelerated depreciation, deduction of public offering expenses in three equal annual installments and amortization of other intangible property rights for tax purposes.
Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments
Tax incentives programs which were relevant for the company until financial year 2020
The Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments, 5719-1959, to which we refer as the Investment Law, provides certain incentives for capital investments in a production facility (or other eligible assets). Generally, an investment program that is implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Investment Law, which may be either an “Approved Enterprise”, a “Beneficiary Enterprise” or a “Preferred Enterprise”, a “Special Preferred Enterprise”, a “Preferred Technology Enterprise” or “Special Preferred Technology Enterprise”, is entitled to benefits as discussed below. These benefits may include cash grants from the Israeli government and tax benefits, based upon, among other things, the location within Israel of the facility in which the investment and manufacture activity are made. In order to qualify for these incentives, an Approved Enterprise, a Beneficiary Enterprise or, a Preferred Enterprise, a Special Preferred Enterprise, a Preferred Technology Enterprise or Special Preferred Technology Enterprise, is required to comply with the requirements of the Investment Law.
The Investment Law has been amended several times over the recent years, with the three most significant changes effective as of April 1, 2005, to which we refer as the 2005 Amendment, as of January 1, 2011, to which we refer as the 2011 Amendment, and as of January 1, 2017, to which we refer as the 2017 Amendment. Pursuant to the 2005 Amendment, tax benefits granted in accordance with the provisions of the Investment Law prior to its revision by the 2005 Amendment, remain in force, but any benefits granted subsequently are subject to the provisions of the amended Investment Law. Similarly, the 2011 Amendment introduced new benefits instead of the benefits granted in accordance with the provisions of the Investment Law prior to the 2011 Amendment, yet companies entitled to benefits under the Investment Law as in effect up to January 1, 2011, were entitled to choose to continue to enjoy such benefits, provided that certain conditions are met, or elect instead, irrevocably, to forego such benefits and
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elect for the benefits of the 2011 Amendment. The 2017 Amendment introduces new benefits for Technological Enterprises, alongside the existing tax benefits.
The following discussion is a summary of the Investment Law prior to its amendments as well as the relevant changes contained in the new legislation.
Tax benefits for Approved Enterprises approved before April 1, 2005.
Under the Investment Law prior to the 2005 Amendment, a company that wished to receive benefits on its investment program that is implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Investment Law, to which we refer as an “Approved Enterprise”, had to receive an approval from the Israeli Authority for Investments and Development of the Industry and Economy, to which we refer as the Investment Center. Each certificate of approval for an Approved Enterprise relates to a specific investment program in the Approved Enterprise, delineated both by the financial scope of the investment, including sources of funds, and by the physical characteristics of the facility or other assets.
An Approved Enterprise may elect to forego any entitlement to the cash grants otherwise available under the Investment Law and, instead, participate in an alternative benefits program. We have chosen to receive the benefits through the alternative benefits program. Under the alternative benefits program, a company’s undistributed income derived from an Approved Enterprise will be exempt from corporate tax for a period of between two and ten years from the first year of taxable income, depending on the geographic location within Israel of the Approved Enterprise, and a reduced corporate tax rate of between 10% to 25% for the remainder of the benefits period, depending on the level of foreign investment in the company in each year, as detailed below. The benefits commence on the date in which that taxable income is first earned. The benefits period under Approved Enterprise status is limited to 12 years from the year in which the production commenced (as determined by the Investment Center), or 14 years from the year of receipt of the approval as an Approved Enterprise, whichever ends earlier. If a company has more than one Approved Enterprise program or if only a portion of its capital investments are approved, its effective tax rate is the result of a weighted combination of the applicable rates. The tax benefits available under any certificate of approval relate only to taxable income attributable to the specific program and are contingent upon meeting the criteria set out in the certificate of approval. Income derived from activity that is not integral to the activity of the Approved Enterprise will not enjoy tax benefits. Our entitlement to the above benefits is subject to fulfillment of certain conditions, according to the law and related regulations.
A company that has an Approved Enterprise program is eligible for further tax benefits if it qualifies as a Foreign Investors’ Company, to which we refer as an FIC. An FIC eligible for benefits is essentially a company with a level of foreign investment, as defined in the Investment Law, of more than 25%. The level of foreign investment is measured as the percentage of rights in the company (in terms of shares, rights to profits, voting and appointment of directors), and of combined share and loan capital, that are owned, directly or indirectly, by persons who are not residents of Israel. The determination as to whether or not a company qualifies as a FIC is made on an annual basis according to the lowest level of foreign investment during the year. An FIC that has an Approved Enterprise program will be eligible for an extension of the period during which it is entitled to tax benefits under its Approved Enterprise status (so that the benefits period may be up to ten years) and for further tax benefits if the level of foreign investment exceeds 49%. If a company that has an Approved Enterprise program is a wholly owned subsidiary of another company, then the percentage of foreign investments is determined based on the percentage of foreign investment in the parent company.
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The corporate tax rates and related levels of foreign investments with respect to an FIC that has an Approved Enterprise program are set forth in the following table:
Percentage of non-Israeli ownership Corporate Tax Rate
Over 25% but less than 49% up to 25%
49% or more but less than 74% 20 %
74% or more but less than 90% 15 %
90% or more 10 %
A company that has elected to participate in the alternative benefits program and that subsequently pays a dividend (or deemed dividend, as described below) out of the income derived from the portion of its facilities that have been granted Approved Enterprise status during the tax exemption period will be subject to tax in respect of the amount of dividend distributed (grossed up to reflect such pre-tax income that it would have had to earn in order to distribute the dividend) at the corporate tax rate that would have been otherwise applicable if such income had not been tax-exempted under the alternative benefits program. This rate generally ranges from 10% to 25%, depending on the level of foreign investment in the company each year, as explained above.
In addition, dividends paid out of income attributed to an Approved Enterprise (or out of dividends received from a company whose income is attributed to an Approved Enterprise) are generally subject to withholding tax at the rate of 15%, or at a lower rate provided under an applicable tax treaty (subject to the receipt in advance of a valid certificate from the Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). The 15% tax rate is limited to dividends and distributions out of income derived during the benefits period and actually paid at any time up to 12 years thereafter. After this period, the withholding tax is applied at a rate of up to 30%, or at the lower rate under an applicable tax treaty (subject to the receipt in advance of a valid certificate from the Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). In the case of an FIC, the 12-year limitation on reduced withholding tax on dividends does not apply.
The Investment Law also provides that an Approved Enterprise is entitled to accelerated depreciation on its property and equipment that are included in an approved investment program in the first five years of using the equipment. This benefit is an incentive granted by the Israeli government regardless of whether the alternative benefits program is elected.
The benefits available to an Approved Enterprise are subject to the continued fulfillment of conditions stipulated in the Investment Law and its regulations and the criteria in the specific certificate of approval, as described above. If a company does not meet these conditions, it would be required to refund the amount of tax benefits, adjusted to the Israeli consumer price index and interest, or other monetary penalty.
We have received the requisite approval, including a final approval, for our Approved Enterprise investment programs, in accordance with the Investment Law. The above-described benefits that accompany these investment programs and our Beneficiary Enterprise investment programs (for which accompanying benefits are described below) have had the effect, historically, up to 2020 of reducing our (and before the Stratasys, Inc.- Objet Ltd. merger, Objet’s) effective consolidated tax rates considerably lower than the statutory Israeli corporate tax rate, which for 2018 and onwards has been set at 23%.
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Tax benefits under the 2005 Amendment that became effective on April 1, 2005.
The 2005 Amendment applies to new investment programs and investment programs commencing after 2004, and does not apply to investment programs approved prior to April 1, 2005. The 2005 Amendment provides that terms and benefits included in any certificate of approval that was granted before the 2005 Amendment became effective (April 1, 2005) will remain subject to the provisions of the Investment Law as in effect on the date of such approval. Pursuant to the 2005 Amendment, the Investment Center will continue to grant Approved Enterprise status to qualifying investments. However, the 2005 Amendment limits the scope of enterprises that may be approved by the Investment Center by setting criteria for the approval of a facility as an Approved Enterprise.
An enterprise that qualifies under the new provisions is referred to as a “Beneficiary Enterprise”, rather than “Approved Enterprise”. The 2005 Amendment provides that the approval of the Investment Center is required only for Approved Enterprises that receive cash grants. As a result, a company is no longer required to obtain the advance approval of the Investment Center in order to receive the tax benefits previously available under the alternative benefits program. Rather, a company may claim the tax benefits offered by the Investment Law directly in its tax returns, provided that its facilities meet the criteria for tax benefits set forth in the 2005 Amendment. A company that has a Beneficiary Enterprise may, at its discretion, approach the Israel Tax Authority for a pre-ruling confirming that it is in compliance with the provisions of the Investment Law.
Tax benefits are available under the 2005 Amendment to production facilities (or other eligible facilities) which are generally required to derive 25% or more of their business income from export to specific markets with a population of at least 14 million in 2012 (such export criteria will further be increased in the future by 1.4% per annum). In order to receive the tax benefits, the 2005 Amendment states that a company must make an investment which meets certain conditions set forth in the amendment for tax benefits and which exceeds a minimum amount specified in the Investment Law. Such investment entitles a company to receive a Beneficiary Enterprise status with respect to the investment and may be made over a period of no more than three years ending in the year in which the company chose to have the tax benefits apply to the Beneficiary Enterprise. The benefits period under the Beneficiary Enterprise status is limited to 12 years from the year the company chose to have its tax benefits apply.
Where a company requests to have the tax benefits apply to an expansion of existing facilities, only the expansion will be considered to be a Beneficiary Enterprise and the company’s effective tax rate will be the weighted average of the applicable rates. In such case, the minimum investment required in order to qualify as a Beneficiary Enterprise must exceed a certain percentage of the value of the company’s production assets before the expansion.
The extent of the tax benefits available under the 2005 Amendment for qualifying income of a Beneficiary Enterprise depends on, among other things, the geographic location within Israel of the Beneficiary Enterprise. Such tax benefits include an exemption from corporate tax on undistributed income for a period of between two to ten years, depending on the geographic location of the Beneficiary Enterprise within Israel, and a reduced corporate tax rate of between 10% to 25% for the remainder of the benefits period, depending on the level of foreign investment in the company in each year, as explained above.
Dividends paid out of income attributed to a Beneficiary Enterprise will be treated similarly to payment of dividends by an Approved Enterprise under the alternative benefits program. Therefore, dividends paid out of income attributed to a Beneficiary Enterprise (or out of dividends received from a company whose income is attributed to a Beneficiary Enterprise) are generally subject to withholding tax at the rate of 15% (increased to 20% on the profits accumulated from January 1, 2014) or such lower rate
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as may be provided in an applicable tax treaty (subject to the receipt in advance of a valid certificate from the Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). The reduced rate of 15% or 20% are limited to dividends and distributions out of income attributed to a Beneficiary Enterprise during the benefits period and actually paid at any time up to 12 years thereafter except with respect to an FIC, in which case the 12-year limit does not apply.
Furthermore, a company qualifying for tax benefits under the 2005 Amendment, which pays a dividend (or deemed dividend, as described below) out of income attributed to its Beneficiary Enterprise during the tax exemption period, will be subject to tax in respect of the amount of the dividend distributed (grossed-up to reflect the pre-tax income that it would have had to earn in order to distribute the dividend) at the corporate tax rate which would have otherwise been Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). However, if such dividends are paid to an Israeli company, no tax is required to be withheld. If such dividends are distributed to a foreign company and other conditions are met, the withholding tax rate will be applicable.
The benefits available to a Beneficiary Enterprise are subject to the continued fulfillment of conditions stipulated in the Investment Law and its regulations. If a company does not meet these conditions, it would be required to refund the amount of tax benefits, as adjusted by the Israeli consumer price index and interest, or other monetary penalty.
In 2021, we gave notice to the Israeli tax authorities that we waived the Approved / Beneficiary Enterprise regime starting from tax year 2021.
Tax incentives programs which may be relevant for the Company starting from financial year 2021
Tax benefits under the 2011 Amendment that became effective on January 1, 2011
The 2011 Amendment canceled the availability of the benefits granted in accordance with the provisions of the Investment Law prior to 2011 and, instead, introduced new benefits for income generated by a “Preferred Company” through its Preferred Enterprise (as such terms are defined in the Investment Law) as of January 1, 2011. A Preferred Company is defined as either (i) a company incorporated in Israel which is not wholly owned by a governmental entity, or (ii) a limited partnership that: (a) was registered under the Israeli Partnerships Ordinance and; (b) all of its limited partners are companies incorporated in Israel, but not all of them are governmental entities; which has, among other things, Preferred Enterprise status and is controlled and managed from Israel. Pursuant to the 2011 Amendment, a Preferred Company was entitled to a reduced corporate tax rate of 15% with respect to its preferred income attributed to its Preferred Enterprise in 2011 and 2012, unless the Preferred Enterprise was located in a certain development zone, in which case the rate was 10%. Such corporate tax rate was reduced to 12.5% and 7%, respectively, in 2013 and was increased to 16% and 9%, respectively, in 2014 until 2016. Pursuant to the 2017 Amendment, in 2017 and thereafter, the corporate tax rate for Preferred Enterprise which is located in a certain development zone was decreased to 7.5%, while the reduced corporate tax rate for other development zones remains 16%. Income derived by a Preferred Company from a “Special Preferred Enterprise” (as such term is defined in the Investment Law) would be entitled, during a benefits period of 10 years, to further reduced tax rates of 8%, or to 5% if the Special Preferred Enterprise is located in a certain development zone. Since January 1, 2017, the definition for “Special Preferred Enterprise” includes less stringent conditions.
Dividends paid out of preferred income attributed to a Preferred Enterprise or to a Special Preferred Enterprise are generally subject to withholding tax at source at the rate of 20% or such lower rate as may be provided in an applicable tax treaty (subject to the receipt in advance of a valid certificate from the Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). However, if such dividends are paid to an Israeli company, no tax is required to be withheld (although, if such dividends are subsequently distributed to
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individuals or a non-Israeli company, withholding tax at a rate of 20% or such lower rate as may be provided in an applicable tax treaty will apply). In 2018-2020, dividends paid out of preferred income attributed to a Special Preferred Enterprise, directly to a foreign parent company, were subject to withholding tax at source at the rate of 5% (temporary provisions).
The 2011 Amendment also provided transitional provisions to address companies already enjoying current benefits under the Investment Law. These transitional provisions provide, among other things, that unless an irrevocable request is made to apply the provisions of the Investment Law as amended in 2011 with respect to income to be derived as of January 1, 2011: (i) the terms and benefits included in any certificate of approval that was granted to an Approved Enterprise, which chose to receive grants, before the 2011 Amendment became effective, will remain subject to the provisions of the Investment Law as in effect on the date of such approval, and subject to certain conditions;. (ii) the terms and benefits included in any certificate of approval that was granted to an Approved Enterprise, that had participated in an alternative benefits program, before the 2011 Amendment became effective will remain subject to the provisions of the Investment Law as in effect on the date of such approval, provided that certain conditions are met; and (iii) a Beneficiary Enterprise can elect to continue to benefit from the benefits provided to it before the 2011 Amendment came into effect, provided that certain conditions are met.
We have examined the possible effect, if any, of these provisions of the 2011 Amendment on our financial statements and decided not to opt to apply the benefits under the 2011 Amendment.
Tax benefits under the 2017 Amendment that became effective on January 1, 2017
The 2017 Amendment was enacted as part of the Economic Efficiency Law that was published on December 29, 2016, and was effective as of January 1, 2017. The 2017 Amendment provides new tax benefits for two types of “Technology Enterprises”, as described below, and is in addition to the other existing tax beneficial programs under the Investment Law.
The 2017 Amendment provides that a technology company satisfying certain conditions will qualify as a “Preferred Technology Enterprise” and will thereby enjoy a reduced corporate tax rate of 12% on income that qualifies as “Preferred Technology Income,” as defined in the Investment Law. The tax rate is further reduced to 7.5% for a Preferred Technology Enterprise located in development zone A. In addition, a Preferred Technology Company will enjoy a reduced corporate tax rate of 12% on capital gain derived from the sale of certain “Benefitted Intangible Assets” (as defined in the Investment Law) to a related foreign company if the Benefitted Intangible Assets were acquired from a foreign company on or after January 1, 2017 for at least NIS 200 million, and the sale receives prior approval from the IIA.
The 2017 Amendment further provides that a technology company satisfying certain conditions will qualify as a “Special Preferred Technology Enterprise” and will thereby enjoy a reduced corporate tax rate of 6% on “Preferred Technology Income” regardless of the company’s geographic location within Israel. In addition, a Special Preferred Technology Enterprise will enjoy a reduced corporate tax rate of 6% on capital gain derived from the sale of certain “Benefitted Intangible Assets” to a related foreign company if the Benefitted Intangible Assets were either developed by the Special Preferred Technology Enterprise or acquired from a foreign company on or after January 1, 2017, and the sale received prior approval from the IIA. A Special Preferred Technology Enterprise that acquires Benefitted Intangible Assets from a foreign company for more than NIS 500 million will be eligible for these benefits for at least ten years, subject to certain approvals as specified in the Investment Law.
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Dividends distributed by a Preferred Technology Enterprise or a Special Preferred Technology Enterprise, paid out of Preferred Technology Income, are generally subject to withholding tax at source at the rate of 20% or such lower rate as may be provided in an applicable tax treaty (subject to the receipt in advance of a valid certificate from the Israel Tax Authority allowing for a reduced tax rate). However, if such dividends are paid to an Israeli company, no tax is required to be withheld. If such dividends are distributed to a foreign company and other conditions are met, the withholding tax rate will be 4%.
In 2021, we provided notice to the Israeli tax authorities that we waived the Approved / Beneficiary Enterprise regime starting from tax year 2021. We also considered our qualification for the 2017 amendment and the term and degree to which we may be qualified as a Preferred Technology Enterprise or Special Preferred Technology Enterprise.
Tax benefits under 2021 Amendments
On November 15, 2021, the Investment Law was amended to reduce the ability of companies to retain the tax-exempt profits. Effective August 15, 2021, dividend distributions (or deemed distribution, as described below), will be treated as if made on a pro-rata basis from all types of earnings, including Exempt Profits (as defined below).
In parallel to the above amendment, the Investment Law was amended to provide, on a temporary basis, a reduced corporate income tax on the distribution or release within a year from such amendment of tax-exempt profits derived by Approved and Benefited Enterprises, which we refer to as Exempt Profits (the “Temporary Provision”). The amount of the reduced tax will be determined based on a formula. In order to qualify for the reduction, we must invest certain amounts in productive assets and research and development in Israel.
Following an Israeli district court ruling (which is subject to deliberation of the Supreme Court), certain transactions (such as acquisitions and intercompany loans) may be treated as deemed dividend distributions for the purpose of the Encouragement Law triggering corporate tax on the respective amount of the transaction.
On November 13, 2022, according to the Temporary Provision, we released an amount of approximately $44.8 million out of our Exempt Profits and accordingly paid reduced tax of approximately $2.9 million. We operate as required by the provisions of the Temporary Provision to qualify for the reduced tax rate.
As of December 31, 2025, we had accumulated tax-exempt income of approximately $179.2 million that is attributable to our various Approved and Beneficiary Enterprise programs. If such tax-exempt income were to be distributed, it would be taxed at the reduced corporate tax rates applicable to such income, which would have amounted to approximately $17.9 million of tax liability as of December 31, 2025.
Pillar Two Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) introduced Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, or BEPS, Pillar Two rules that impose a global minimum tax rate of 15% for large multinational corporations. On December 12, 2022, the EU Council announced that EU member states had reached an agreement to implement the minimum taxation component of 15% of the OECD’s reform of international taxation. Nearly 60 jurisdictions have enacted Pillar Two rules, with many having become effective in 2024. The OECD continues to release additional guidance and we are monitoring the new rules and country agreements. The Israeli Ministry of Finance published on October 5, 2025 a draft bill to implement the principles of the OECD’s Pillar Two. Even if adopted, Israel intends at this stage to apply only the Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax mechanism, starting in 2026. The two other main
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taxation mechanisms of Pillar Two– the Income Inclusion Rule and the Under Taxed Profits Rule– will be reconsidered in the future but are not part of the existing draft bill. We are currently evaluating the potential impact of this development on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures and do not expect Pillar Two to have a material impact on our effective tax rate or consolidated financial statements in the foreseeable future.
C.Organizational Structure.
Our corporate structure includes Stratasys Ltd., our Israeli parent company, and the following primary, active, wholly-owned subsidiary entities:
•Stratasys, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which was formerly a publicly held company and which became our indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary as a result of the Stratasys, Inc.- Objet Ltd. merger. Following our acquisition of Origin in December 2020, Stratasys, Inc. now has offices and warehouses in San Francisco, California;
•Stratasys Direct, Inc. (our parts service business unit), a California corporation;
•Stratasys AP Limited, a Hong Kong limited company, which together with several other subsidiaries (including Stratasys Japan Co. Ltd., our Japanese subsidiary, and Stratasys Shanghai Ltd., our Chinese subsidiary), carries out most of our operations in the Asia Pacific region;
•Stratasys GmbH, a German limited liability company, which together with other subsidiaries (including AM Marketplace GmbH, an indirect, fully owned German subsidiary, and Stratasys UK Distribution Ltd., a fully owned UK subsidiary) carries out our European operations;
•Stratasys Solutions Ltd., a UK company, holding directly and indirectly all European group entities and being active in software business;
•Stratasys Latin America Representacao De Equipamentos Ltd., a Brazilian subsidiary, which carries out our Brazilian operations; and
•Stratasys Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican subsidiary company, which carries out our operations in Mexico.
We also own a 46.5% interest in Ultimaker, which includes the operations of our former subsidiary, MakerBot, and which offers a comprehensive solution set of hardware, software and materials for Desktop 3D printing.
Please see the list of subsidiaries appended to this annual report as Exhibit 8 for a complete list of our subsidiaries as of the date of this annual report.
D.Property, Plants and Equipment.
We have dual headquarters, in Minnetonka, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel.
We have phased out our former Eden Prairie, Minnesota headquarters (previously known as NASH) and transitioned into our new long-term lease for our US campus in Minnetonka Minnesota. The new campus is comprised of two adjacent buildings. One of the buildings has six stories and serves as our Americas Regional Corporate Headquarters, or ARCH, and contains 164,951 square feet -- mainly executive offices and labs. The second building is a one-floor, heavy duty building (known as ARCH 2) of 18,568 square feet. The new campus will serve the following purposes: system assembly, inventory storage, operations and sales support; manufacturing for one of our Stratasys Direct Manufacturing paid parts service locations; research and development, administrative, marketing and sales activities. We had initially relocated to our new campus at the end of 2024, when we vacated our NASH location in Eden Prairie (81,546 square feet). Out of three additional owned sites in Eden Prairie (Wallace, Edenvale, and
SMACS) that were part of our former headquarters, we have moved operations from two of them, Wallace and Edenvale, to the new campus in Minnetonka, which move was completed during the second half of 2025. We also completed the sale of the Wallace facility on December 31, 2025. We have placed Edenvale on the market for sale or lease. We continue to utilize SMACS for our production facility in its existing location in Eden Prairie.
Our building complex in Rehovot, Israel, which contains two buildings, is situated on a property that we purchased in 2015 and encompasses approximately 284,713 square feet. It houses our Israeli headquarters, research and development facilities and certain marketing activities. We entered the first building in January 2017 and the second building in May 2021.
As of December 31, 2025, we lease office space (except with respect to our Edenvale and SMACS sites at our former headquarters facilities in Eden Prairie, our Rehovot, Israel and Kiryat Gat, Israel facilities, and our Germany facility, where we own the property) for various purposes, as set forth in the table below. Unless otherwise stated, all of our facilities are fully utilized. Our material tangible fixed assets include, among other things, the properties listed below:
Location: Primary Usage: Area (Sq. Feet)
Americas:
Minnetonka, MN New U.S. headquarters 183,519
Eden Prairie, MN Former U.S. headquarters (currently SMACS & Edenvale) 183,386
Valencia, California Offices and warehouses 3,035
Belton, Texas Offices and warehouses 39,680
Plymouth, Minnesota Warehouse 168,100
Other facilities in Americas 89,431
Europe and the Middle East
Rehovot, Israel Israeli headquarters 284,7131
Kiryat Gat, Israel Factories and warehouse 126,6172
Rheinmunster, Germany Europe main office 55,027
United Kingdom Manufacturing, offices and lab space 35,171
Other facilities in EMEA Offices and lab space 27,523
Asia Pacific
Hong Kong Asia Pacific main office 5,494
Japan Sales office 13,109
China Sales office 10,600
Other facilities in Asia Pacific Office space 13,454