Metal Additive Manufacturing market 2022

Metal Additive Manufacturing market

Growth in metal Additive Manufacturing back on the menu

In 2021, the global metal Additive Manufacturing market is valued at EUR xx billion including system, material and part manufacturing supplier sales. After a year of only marginal growth in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, the industry achieved xx % higher revenues in 2021. The suppliers expect a similar growth over the coming years until 2026. Worth mentioning, this is slightly below the growth predictions reported in the previous year.

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Metal market by region

EMEA bounced back while others grew

Overall, EMEA is again the largest market for metal AM suppliers with sales revenues of EUR xx billion in 2021. After a significant drop in revenue in 2020 due to the severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the market bounced back to its previous level in 2019. The regional share of sales worldwide continued to drop from xx % in 2019 and xx % in 2020 to now xx %.

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Market by technology

Crossing the threshold of xx units per year

After a difficult year of pandemic-induced statis, the number of sold units grew again in 2021 to a total of xx machines. While this results only in an increase of xx % of the units, customers purchased a favorable mix of more expensive machines as the system supplier revenue grew by about xx % in the same time frame.

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Additive Manufacturing market by industry

Strong growth in selected verticals

The global metal Additive Manufacturing system sales volume increased from EUR xx billion in 2020 to EUR xx billion in 2021. The strongest segment in terms of machine acquisition was the xx industry with a share of xx %, the xx industry followed at xx %.


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Metal market by materials

Metal Additive Manufacturing material consumption grows with increasing degree of industrialization

The metal feedstock consumption grew by xx % from xx tons in 2020 to xx tons in 2021. The suppliers and users expect that the growth will significantly increase in the coming years to about xx %. In 2026, the users are expected to use xx tons of material.
High throughput systems such as Binder Jetting and DED technologies but also new generation of multi-laser L-PBF machines will push the use of material.

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Industrialization

Medical industry with machine utilization above xx %

The utilization is calculated from the actual runtime of the machine and the total available hours, i.e. 8,760 hours per year. Typical reasons for unproductive downtime of a machine can be preventive maintenance and planned services, machine defects, unavailability of personnel to setup a machine or simply lack of production orders.

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Metal 3D Printing Supply Chain

Database

More than 150 metal Additive Manufacturing system suppliers known

Over the past decade the worldwide number of metal Additive Manufacturing system suppliers has increased significantly and a large variety of Additive Manufacturing technologies has emerged. Today, more than 150 metal AM system suppliers are known worldwide. Most of them are located in the USA, China and Germany. The USA are representing the largest number of system suppliers. China and Germany follow.

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Applications

Number of industrial applications continue to grow across all industries

Early movers of successful Additive Manufacturing applications have in common, that they originate from high end and high value component manufacturing. Typical examples are the medical, aviation, turbine, space and oil & gas industry. Parallel, the machine industry became aware of the one-off part production potential of metal Additive Manufacturing, too. Especially the tooling industry and special machinery in high-end segments are promoting the development of metal Additive Manufacturing applications.

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