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In 2024, the industrial AM market faced yet again a challenging investment climate, with equipment vendors reporting declining revenues after consecutive years of growth. Publicly traded AM companies, especially those that went public via SPAC mergers, struggled to achieve profitability and saw significant market capitalization losses. DESKTOP METAL and MARKFORGED explored a merger with NANO DIMENSION, while VELO3D was acquired and delisted. Other companies, such as NEXA3D, remained in limbo, and WEBER ADDITIVE ceased operations without public notice. Even major polymer players like BASF and KIMYA retreated from the AM sector.
Additive Manufacturing experiences massive growth and is considered to be one of the key technologies on the path of digitalization and industry 4.0. The ability of manufacturing parts directly from a CAD file enables mass-customization and on-demand production. Software is the key in design generation and processing of production data.
The AMER region generally covers the USA, Canada and the south american countries including Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Historically, the USA was the more active region in the polymer Additive Manufacturing field compared with Europe. Lateley, new emerging sinter-based metal Additive Manufacturing technologies predominentaly come from US based companies. This report section covers regional reports of contributing local authors, who each are experts in the characteristicy of the regional Additive Manufacturing landscape.
The APAC region generally covers Australia, the far east asian countries such as Japan and China as well as India. While Japan entered the Additive Manufacturing market much later than others, China is currently one of the largest players in the gloal industry. This report section covers regional reports of contributing local authors, who each are experts in the characteristicy of the regional Additive Manufacturing landscape.
The EMEA region generally covers Europe, Russia, the african continent and the middle East. Europe is one of the birth regions of Additive Manufacturing while in the middle east, Israel is a hotspot for startups in new technologies. This report section covers regional reports of contributing local authors, who each are experts in the characteristicy of the regional Additive Manufacturing landscape.
Basis for the AMPOWER Report 2024 are personal interviews as well as secondary research from publicly available sources. The personal interviews were conducted directly by AMPOWER staff. The respondents were typically the respective Additive Manufacturing managers or directors with insight into the technological as well as economical company figures.
The market analysis segmented by regions will provide insights into the current state and outlook of the polymer Additive Manufacturing market for the different areas of the world.
The regions of interest are mostly categorized into the groups of the Americas (AMER), the Asia Pacific region (APAC) consisting of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania as well as the group of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
