3D Printing Materials Market 2022-2032

Materials present the strongest revenue opportunity within additive manufacturing, but understanding the variety of polymer, metal, and ceramic materials within 3D printing is critical to capitalizing on this opportunity. This report examines the status of established 3D printing materials, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes trends, and provides detailed market forecasts for additive manufacturing materials. For companies involved in 3D printing materials, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

Polymer, metal, wax, sand, concrete - as the 3D printing technology landscape has grown in diversity and complexity, so has the variety of materials compatible with these many additive processes. Whereas 3D printing used to be synonymous with straightforward low-cost thermoplastics for less demanding applications like prototyping, it now sees more unique and high-performance materials enter the market annually, from metal-matrix composites to bioceramics, to recycled plastics. This portfolio of compatible materials continues to expand as end users demand higher quality products, greater choice and flexibility, and in the case of prototyping, materials that are more representative of the final product's appearance and behavior. Importantly, this wider materials portfolio comes alongside increased adoption of additive manufacturing, as important end-users begin to fully understand the value-add that 3D printing brings to their supply chain.

 

With users spanning valuable industry verticals like medicine, automotive, and aerospace, there is a continuing drive to expand the materials market for 3D printing. With every new material launch comes an additional application for 3D printing to explore. The growth potential for 3D printing materials differs significantly from printing equipment, as legacy printers which are still operational continue to consume materials. Therefore, this segment of the 3D printing value chain represents tremendous potential growth opportunity over the next decade: IDTechEx forecasts that the global market for 3D printing materials will be worth $29.5 billion in 2032.

 

 

The 3D Printing Materials Market 2022-2032 report is specially authored to provide detailed understanding into this market through 75 forecast lines. These forecast lines span polymer, metal, ceramic, and construction materials, with insight offered on mass demand and revenue generation over the coming decade for different material categories. This report covers the current status of the additive manufacturing materials market from the perspective of polymers, fiber reinforced composites, metals, ceramics, and construction, with detail about material uptake trends occurring in the industry.

 

 

The 3D printing market encompasses an increasingly broad materials palette. This report takes an in-depth look into the established material classes of polymer, metal, and ceramic materials, including photopolymer resins, thermoplastic powders, thermoplastic filaments, metal powders, and ceramic materials. Extensive discussion on the properties, applications, and suppliers of these feedstock types is provided, culminating in seventy-five forecast lines across four main material types for the next decade. Material descriptions, printer compatibilities, strengths and weaknesses, manufacturers, and example applications are discussed for individual material categories in the main established material types.

 

 

In addition, IDTechEx have conducted benchmarking studies assessing thousands of commercial polymer materials for 3D printing to compare the performance of individual polymer material categories. These benchmarking studies cut through any marketing and provide accessible impartial categorization for the industry. IDTechEx's benchmarking studies allow for identification of the successes and gaps in the market, providing valuable business intelligence for companies looking to capitalize on the growing 3D printing materials industry. IDTechEx's detailed industry analysis will also provide further context to the notable amount of movement in this industry with acquisitions, capacity expansions, improved processes, and new materials as players introduce material portfolios bespoke for additive manufacturing. Lastly, niche materials like concrete, glass, and sand are introduced and evaluated to provide a full picture of the 3D printing materials market.

 

This report forecasts the overall 3D printing materials market to 2032, with in depth discussion of currently commercialized and emerging materials. The current state of the materials market is analyzed, and long-range forecasts from 2022-2032 for forecast demand by mass and revenue per annum segmented by material class, compatible printer technology, and material type within its feedstock category are evaluated.

 

IDTechEx conducted exhaustive primary research with companies positioned throughout the entire 3D printing value chain for key insights into the trends impacting growth to 2032. IDTechEx analysts go far beyond what is publicly available by conducting an extensive number of primary interviews, providing the latest and most important information to the reader. Over 45 company profiles are included as part of this report; this includes key OEMs, disruptive start-ups, incumbent powder providers, and emerging material companies.

 

 

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