March 2020

Market and Technology News

March 2020

Market News

PostProcess

PostProcess Technologies Joins Forces with Z-AXIS and 3D Alliances to Expand International Reach (March 25, 2020)

PostProcess Technologies Inc., the first and only provider of automated and intelligent post-printing solutions for industrial 3D printing, has just announced a channel partnership with the renowned 3D printer distributor Z-Axis. Based in Russia, Z-axis will broaden PostProcess Technologies’ reach throughout Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, and Armenia.

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Titomic & Triton

Partnership with Triton (March 30, 2020)

Australian industrial scale metal additive manufacturing company, Titomic Limited, has entered into a strategic partnership with the US-based global product development and technology company Triton to implement Titomic’s Kinetic Fusion capabilities

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Technology News

Atomising Systems Ltd (ASL)

New atomizers for AM and MIM (March 5, 2020)

Atomising Systems Ltd. (ASL), the Sheffield based metal powder production company, recently expanded its capacity through the installation of a new 400kg gas atomiser aimed specifically at the AM and MIM powder markets.

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Mimaki

Mimaki launches 3DGD-1800 large format 3D printer (March 24, 2020)

Mimaki Europe, a manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutters, has launched the Mimaki 3DGD-1800 3D printer, a new large scale system that uses Gel Dispensing Printing technology.

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Aerosint & Aconity3D

Aerosint & Aconity3D develop a multi-material metal 3D printer (March 4, 2020)

The specialist recoater developed by Belgium-based Aerosint will be deployed in a new 3D printer made by Aconity3D, capable of laying dual-powder layers for laser powder bed fusion systems.

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Additive Manufacturing start-ups

30. April 2020

Additive Manufacturing is a highly dynamic and innovative industry. This leads to start-ups that form the technology landscape. Emerging mostly from university background, start-ups are most active in area of system development. Other fields include software, materials and applications.

Additive Manufacturing market by material

6. November 2019

The metal Additive Manufacturing material market is expected to almost tripple in feedstock use in the next five years. Regardless the high growth, the feedstock accounts for only a very small fraction of the worldwide metal material market. Most of the alloy consumption in AM is driven by high end applications in aviation and medical. Thus, high strength and high temperature alloys are taking large shares.

Additive Manufacturing market by industry

30. October 2019

Many different industries have successfully adopted metal Additive Manufacturing. Medical and dental can be regarded as pioneering industry with serial productions starting in the early 2000s. Other industries, especially aerospace continue to play a strong part in metal Additive Manufacturing.

Additive Manufacturing industrialization

29. October 2019

Over 18 different metal AM technologies are currently known, which are in highly different stages of maturity. Processes like Powder Bed Fusion or Powder Laser Deposition are well-established in multiple industries and used in qualified productions of serial parts. Other AM technologies have just been introduced into the market or are still in a phase of development.

Additive Manufacturing Market By Technology

29. October 2019

The metal Additive Manufacturing technology market will face large shifts in distribution and usage of AM principles due to new and upcoming technologies entering the market. Today, the large majority of machines sold and used are Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion systems. However, technologies such as Binder Jetting or Wire Arc Deposition will significantly increase their market share over the next 5 years.

Additive Manufacturing Market by Region

29. October 2019

At the early days of metal Additive Manufacturing, Germany was the leading market region with its first movers in LB-PBF technology CONCEPT LASER (now GE), EOS, REALIZER (now DMG MORI) and SLM SOLUTIONS. Hence, many pioneering users were located in Germany and Europe. By now, however, the market share is more evenly distributed with suppliers and buyers from all over the major industrial regions.