3D Printing market size segmentation by region

The basic regional segmentation of the AMPOWER 3D Printing Report is given by the 3 regions AMER, EMEA and APAC. In many graphs, those regions have further breakdowns and report specific numbers of e.g., China, Germany and the US. All three main regions have similar sized 3D Printing Markets. However historically, EMEA and specifically Europe and Germany have a stronger footprint in metal 3D Printing technologies. Germany is home to many of todays leading suppliers of metal Powder Bed Fusion systems with EOS, SLM SOLUTIONS, CONCEPT LASER GE ADDITIVE or TRUMPF. This also meant that users have a traditionally high footprint of metal 3D Printing systems in Europe. However, this changed in the past years once growth kicked in on many users in the US. Today, the US is one of the 3D Printing Markets with the strongest grow especially in metal. Also, many new technologies such as Binder Jetting are mainly developed by US-based companies like DESKTOP METAL, making this 3D Printing Market one of the most attractive ones.

On the other hand, the Polymer 3D Printing Market was early dominated by VAT Technologies developed in the US, making this market an early adopter. Also, many Material Extrusion companies today have their base in the us while in Powder Bed Fusion, some European Companies have a strong footprint. The APAC market is dominated by China. The AMPOWER 3D Printing Report segments also into the Japanese and Indian market. However, the Chinese market is growing mostly with domestic customers and has only a small footprint outside of APAC or even outside of China. The 3D Printing Report by AMPOWER report about installed base and system origin of all major technology groups in each region. Also, the database of the 3D Printing Report allows for screening of all known suppliers of systems, materials and part manufacturing services in both metal and polymer 3D Printing.

Collecting the annual 3D Printing Market data

The AMPOWER 3D Printing Report is based on direct interviews with supplier and user of the industry. In the first two months of each year, AMPOWER is conducting interviews with mainly system supplier, part manufacturing supplier, material supplier and user. In those interviews, the AMPOWER team collects data about newly sold or installed systems, regional, industrial and technology segmentations, outlook and company growth rates. User and part manufacturing suppliers also give insights into their machine utilization of the past years and the material consumption. The 3D Printing Market player trust AMPOWER with that delicate information because none of the data is being directly published. This means, AMPOWER does not publish for example sales numbers of specific vendors or installed bases of specific users. All data of the AMPOWER 3D Printing Report is aggregated and analyzed. This however means, that AMPOWER has to aggregate some of the information. For example, ARCAM, a company of GE ADDITIVE, was for a long time the only vendor of Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (EBM) systems. To avoid publishing direct sales numbers, the EBM system sales were aggregated under the category Powder Bed Fusion together with the much larger 3D Printing Market of Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion. This might change however in the near future since several new vendors emerged on the market in the past years.