With the merger and integration of the market, industry giants have entered the market, and 3D printing has entered a stage of growth. According to Wohler Associates, the global additive manufacturing industry has seen a significant increase in output value in the past 20 years. In 1995, the global additive manufacturing industry produced 3 In 2009, it reached US$6.06 billion, and in 2017 it was US$7.336 billion, up 21.0% year-on-year. The growth rate was 3.6 percentage points higher than 2016.
2005-2017 global additive manufacturing industry output value and growth rate
3D printing has made positive progress in the market applications in aerospace, automotive, medical health and other fields. The local field has already passed the break-even point of large-scale application, and large-scale industrialization is gaining momentum. With the key technologies at home and abroad With continuous breakthrough and maturity, 3D printing industrialization is entering a wider range of applications, which will bring explosive growth of the industry.
According to IDC's forecast, global additive manufacturing value will reach 28.9 billion US dollars in 2020. McKinsey predicts that the global additive manufacturing industry in 2025 may generate economic benefits of up to 20-500 billion US dollars.
China's additive manufacturing market maintains a higher global growth rate. According to China's additive manufacturing industry alliance, China's additive manufacturing industry has doubled in size during the three years from 2015 to 2017, with an average annual growth rate of over 30%. In the first half of 2018, China's additive manufacturing industry maintained a growth rate of more than 25%.
Dedicated material development lag
Although China's 3D printing industry is growing at a faster rate, there are many companies, and the scale is generally small. The key technologies and manufacturing equipment still have a big gap with developed countries. At the same time, they are far behind in foreign materials development.
In the field of 3D printing, 3D printing materials have always played a pivotal role. Therefore, 3D printing materials are an important material basis for the development of 3D printing technology. To some extent, the development of materials determines whether 3D printing can be used more widely. 3. 3D printing materials mainly include engineering plastics, photosensitive resins, rubber materials, metal materials and ceramic materials.
At present, only a few kinds of metals such as titanium alloy and high-strength steel have been developed in China. The performance of material moldings is generally not high. The leading companies in the industry and materials companies such as BASF have laid out special materials in the field, breaking through a batch of new polymer composite materials, high performance. Alloy materials, bioactive materials, ceramic materials and other special materials.
It is believed that with the continuous breakthrough of technology, there will be more and more materials available for 3D printing in China in the future, which will undoubtedly broaden the application field of 3D printing. China's 3D printing industry will have a new round of rapid growth after the material is solved. period.