On the 18th April, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in favour of 3D Systems regarding the antitrust case brought against it by chemical giant DSM Desotech.

The history of 3D printing has been a mixture of great success stories combined with failures. Here in this premium article IDTechEx develops a detailed global activity timeline for (a) 3D printing equipment suppliers covering EBM, FDM, inkjet and laser-based printer makers, (b) 3D printing material suppliers including metal powders, thermoplastics, thermoplastic powders, photopolymers and others, and (c) 3D bio printing companies. The activity timeline covers start and end (if relevant) date of operation, as well as merges and acquisitions.

3D bioprinting is a catch-all term representing a raft of technologies as described in the recent IDTechEx report "3D Bioprinting 2014-2024: Applications, Markets and Players". Such is the potential of 3D bioprinting that the market could realistically reach a value of $6B by 2024.