Matsuura
Develops hybrid metal additive manufacturing machines integrating laser sintering with high-speed milling for precision parts finishing.
- CEO / Founder
- Katsu Matsuura
- Team Size
- 201-500
- Stage
- Active
- Total Funding
- Undisclosed
- Latest Round
- IPO
- Key Investors
- Public Investors
Technology & Products
Key Products
Matsuura offers 5-axis, vertical, horizontal, linear motor, multi-tasking CNC machine tools, and hybrid metal 3D printers that integrate laser sintering with high-speed milling.
Technological Advantage
Enables 72-hour unmanned operation and high-precision finishing of complex internal geometries.
Patent position
Matsuura filed 78 patent families across all years, compared with 4 for Okuma. AMPulse analysis
- Filing momentum
- 11 families filed 2022–2024, 28 in 2019–2021
- Process mix, 2019–2021 → 2022–2024
- Powder bed fusion 100% → 100%
- Focus, 2019–2021 → 2022–2024
- Materials 100% → 100%Equipment 93% → 91%
- Filed in
- CN 35%EP 33%JP 23%US 21%WO 5%
- Named competitors, AM patent families
- Okuma 4
78 AM patent families in total. Recent years are still being published, so read a filing change against the same-office figure.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
Reduces lead times and costs by combining metal 3D printing and CNC milling in a single machine for finished precision parts.
How They Differentiate
Integrated milling during the build process allows for finishing of surfaces that are inaccessible after the part is completed.
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Industrial manufacturers needing precision components and unmanned production capabilities.
Industry Verticals
Aerospace; Automotive; Precision Manufacturing
Competitors
DMG Mori; GF Machining Solutions; Okuma
Growth & Milestones
Growth Metrics
85+ years heritage; focus on 72-hour unmanned productivity and DX strategy.
Major Milestones
1935: Founding; 1987: Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange; 1991: MAM72 unmanned series launch; 2020: US HQ opening in St. Paul, MN
Notable Customers
BMW WilliamsF1 Team; Panasonic; Formula 1 Teams
AM patents
AM-relevant patents linked to this company.
- Patents
- 92
- Granted
- 46
- Families
- 78
Leading domains: process (91), material (82), equipment (69)
Filings by year: 2024: 10 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 3
- Three-dimensional shaping apparatus10525530 · US
- Three-dimensional shaping method10773459 · US
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPING APPARATUS04717378 · EP
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDING METHOD109317669 · CN
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPING METHOD03543011 · EP
Funding rounds
- IPOUndisclosed1960-01Source: Wikipedia
Equipment deals on record
Publicly disclosed purchases or installs only.
- AM equipment system
1 systems · EUR 315,000
Buyer: Education Procurement Service (EPS) · Supplier: Matsuura Machinery Ltd