The worldwide 3D printing market grew to $3.58 billion in Q1 2025, in line with the most recent knowledge from Additive Manufacturing Analysis (AM Analysis). This marks a 9% year-over-year improve, suggesting the market is beginning to get better after a stronger-than-expected end to 2024.
AM Analysis’s newly revealed Q1 2025 3DP/AM Market Knowledge and Forecast and its companion Market Insights report break down key developments throughout {hardware}, supplies, and providers in each the steel and polymer AM markets. The information consists of data on firms, areas, and industries, providing one of the crucial detailed seems to be on the present state of additive manufacturing (AM).
Based on AM Analysis, within the first quarter of 2025, steel AM reached $1.52 billion, up from $1.37 billion the yr earlier than. Polymer AM additionally noticed a rise, rising to $2.06 billion, in comparison with $1.90 billion within the first quarter of 2024. The mixed marketplace for AM providers adopted the same development, rising to $2 billion from $1.77 billion the earlier yr.
Whereas the expansion isn’t very massive, it reveals a gradual upward path for the trade—and a difficult trade at that. Steel supplies and {hardware} grew solely barely, however steel powder mattress fusion (PBF) methods stood out as one of many stronger-performing applied sciences.
Polymer supplies continued to develop as nicely, thanks partly to elevated use in print providers. This was very true in China, the place giant service suppliers like UnionFab function lots of of printers and produce tens of millions of elements. Dental labs additionally performed a key function, as extra of them are turning to 3D printing for the quick and cost-effective manufacturing of crowns, aligners, and different units. Collectively, these areas are serving to to maintain momentum going within the AM market.
Trade Shifts Towards “Answer-First” Development
Govt VP of Analysis Scott Dunham summarized a key takeaway: the AM trade is shifting from venture-backed growth towards natural progress based mostly on real-world wants.
“Q1 2025 noticed persevering with and speedy consolidation of financially struggling property. We see rising a brand new path to trade growth, one not fueled by fundraising and promoting a know-how, however quite by new merchandise developed internally and as the results of particular wants and alternatives, summed up as ‘resolution first natural progress’,” Dunham stated.
This development is mirrored in firms like IRPD in Switzerland and Additive Plus within the U.S., that are bringing internally developed AM methods to market.
AM Analysis elevated its long-term forecast for the steel AM market, citing speedy developments in sectors corresponding to satellites, drones, and knowledge facilities, which exhibit robust indicators for AM adoption. The report notably highlights dental 3D printing as a case research for a way AM can dominate a market. Due to falling {hardware} costs, improved automation, and sturdy utility improvement, dental labs now broadly depend on AM.
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AM Analysis’s quarterly knowledge merchandise embody practically a decade of historic knowledge and ten-year forecasts. Studies can be found as one-time or subscription purchases and might be custom-made for particular consumer wants. These core merchandise—Core Metals and Core Polymers—observe world developments throughout {hardware}, supplies, and providers, with quarterly updates to replicate real-time modifications available in the market.
To entry the total studies or be taught extra about AM Analysis’s providers, go to www.additivemanufacturingresearch.com/studies.
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