Learn the background and state of the art of metal FDM. The process is based on the widely known polymer technology called Fused Deposition Modeling also known as FDM. Several variants are known and many new suppliers are currently going to market with either metal FDM system technology or feedstock.
LB-PBF or laser beam powder bed fusion, also known as selective laser melting (SLM), is the most known metal Additive Manufacturing technology. With an installed base of over 7,000 systems, the technology is now wide spread with many public applications in production. This report section gives a broad overview of the state of the art of laser beam powder bed fusion.
In the shadow of LB-PBF, Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (EB-PBF) developed as a major technology for certain industries and applications such as medical devices in form of hip cups for bone replacement. Learn all about the state of the art of EB-PBF in this report section, the advantages of the technology, further developments, and expected new market entrants of suppliers.
Material suppliers have been developing new materials for polymer Additive Manufacturing for years. New materials are constantly being defined and made available for new processes and applications. To provide an overview of the material suppliers, this database summarizes the known material suppliers and sorts them according to the starting material, like powder, filament, pellets, resins, fibers and tape.
Additive Manufacturing part manufacturing suppliers play an important role in the adoption of Additive Manufacturing. They lower the entry barrier for users by offering manufacturing services during the R&D and development phase. In a later stage they offer production capacities of additional alloys or economic alternatives for low volume end use parts. This database provides a list of known industrial polymer Additive Manufacturing part manufacturing suppliers.
Additive Manufacturing system suppliers offer polymer machines in 16 different technologies. A majority of them producing Material Extrusion machines. Browse through the database of all polymer Additive Manufacturing system suppliers worldwide. The database contains supplier names, website as well as home countries and the offered AM technology.
The global outbreak of the COVID-19 virus led to a lockdown and travel ban in most industrialized countries. AMPOWER analyzes in this section the impact COVID-19 might have on the global metal Additive Manufacturing industry and will discuss potential scenarios on the future development of the market.
More than half of all metal Additive Manufacturing technologies use powder as feedstock. Considering the installed base of AM systems, over 80 % of all running systems work with metal powder. Most powder suppliers originally produced powder for other technologies such as coating or press sintering. Only recently they added suitable AM powder to their product portfolio. In the past years, some new players emerged focussing completely on Metal AM powder feedstock.
