Demand for global 3D printers surges, and will exceed $22 billion by 2020

3D printing manufacturing technology has the potential to completely influence global manufacturing in all aspects. The real revolution is that it can produce personalized customized products all over the world. In the future, it is not difficult to manufacture a product. Who can design it? This design becomes a personalized and interactive, and becomes a linkage between innovation and market.

Demand for global 3D printers surges, and will exceed $22 billion by 2020

3D printing manufacturing technology has the potential to completely influence global manufacturing in all aspects. The revolution is that it can produce personalized customized products around the world. In the future, it is not difficult to manufacture a product. Who can design it? The design becomes a personalized and interactive one, which becomes the linkage between innovation and market.

      Since the rapid development of 3D printing technology in 2013, domestic and international 3D printer companies have sprung up in the market. In the past two years, although the development speed has slowed down, it still belongs to the trend of stabilizing the market. From the perspective of global shipments in 2018, it still maintains a certain growth trend.

Demand for global 3D printers surges, and will exceed $22 billion by 2020

      3D printing industry chain in-depth analysis and market globalization

      3D printing is mainly divided into desktop and industrial. The desktop level is the initial stage and the entry stage of 3D printing technology, which can explain the process principle of 3D printing technology very intuitively. Industrial grade 3D printers are mainly divided into rapid prototyping and direct product manufacturing. Desktop-grade 3D printers are relatively inexpensive, with plastic as the primary material. Industrial-grade 3D printers are relatively expensive, with metal powder as the main material, and the price of industrial-grade metal printers is comparable to that of large industrial equipment.

      According to statistics from the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the global 3D printer market will exceed US$22 billion in 2022. The Chinese 3D printer market will exceed US$6.19 billion. Consumer-grade 3D printers currently occupy 90% of the market. The United States is the main competitive field in the 3D printing industry, with a market share of more than 40%, followed by Japan, Germany, and China, but China is a country with more makers, especially since the promotion of STEAM education. Maker, science popularization activities or science and technology courses are presented in different forms in the market. 3D printing has become the focus of attention as an emerging technology industry. Therefore, China has huge market potential.

      The global market competition pattern, the domestic 3D printing diversified application market is generally optimistic

      3D printing is a "high-dimensional" technology fusion model. The China Internet of Things School and Enterprise Alliance calls it "the thought of the last century, the technology of the last century, the market of this century." Since the rise in the United States, but popular around the world, the 3D printing industry is destined to have a global market competition. According to the forecast of China's cross-border e-commerce transaction scale and growth forecast for 2015-2019, the annual cross-border e-commerce transaction scale shows a year-on-year growth trend, and it is expected that China's cross-border e-commerce transaction volume will exceed 10 in 2019. One trillion yuan. Cross-border e-commerce as an important sales channel for 3D printing manufacturers, this is undoubtedly good news, but since the Sino-US trade war started, especially in 2019, the 3D printing market has been affected more or less, after all, in the world Under the market structure, even a small service provider will be affected, such as prices, customers and so on. The multi-faceted nature of things, the overall situation, the short-term impact allows us to see earlier, domestic companies are facing the competition of global enterprises, should have a global vision and pattern. In the first half of 2019, Carbon, the leader in high-speed light-curing 3D printing, has established a company in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

      3D printing accelerates the intelligent upgrade of traditional manufacturing industry. Personalized customization will become a new direction for the development of the industry.

      With the development of the Internet of Things and cloud computing, energy and information jointly drive economic development, distributed manufacturing will become the representative of emerging models, from distributed energy to cloud computing, from industrial robots to 3D printing, these are distributed applications. The economies of scale that are recombined after being distributed have increased resource utilization and reduced cost. 3D printing manufacturing technology has the potential to completely affect global manufacturing in all aspects, shifting factory production to social production, mass production. Turn to localized, personalized production. 3D printing technology is a better embodiment of individualization, and it is also a production method that can be adopted by the manufacturing industry. It does not produce products in a certain place and then transports them to the world. Instead, it can send design drawings instantly through the Internet and manufacture them at the location of demand. The product has abandoned the same form of large-scale manufacturing in the factory and has the characteristics of individualization, miniaturization and economy.

      The revolution is that it can produce personalized, customized products around the world. The design and production processes are subdivided in different time and space to present social features, and the design and manufacturing processes are more closely linked. In the future, it is not difficult to manufacture a product. The hard part is who can design it. This design becomes a personalized and interactive one. It becomes a combination of innovation and market, what the market needs to design, or design a new product. It was quickly accepted by the market. Not only the production model of large-scale monopoly will change, the demand will be diversified, the production and manufacturing will be diversified, and the exquisite manufacturing will go deep into thousands of households. Anyone can enjoy the refined manufacturing products, which goes beyond Traditional centralized production architecture.

      3D printing applications continue to expand, industry, medical, education is still the mainstream

      From the perspective of global investment distribution in 3D printing in 2018, investment in 3D printing technology services and investment in 3D printing materials have begun to grow. As mentioned above, as long as you have a printer, the 3D printing service technology is more perfect. In the future, you have the ability to turn your imagination into reality. Nowadays, 3D printing has rapidly broken from the appearance of the past few years, and has broken the traditional manufacturing thinking mode. In addition to the application of Maker Education, 3D printing has achieved outstanding results in aerospace, automotive transportation, and medical fields. .

      Especially in the medical field, from the teeth, bones to the sensational 3D printed heart has shown the world that additive manufacturing technology brings great convenience and technological innovation to human beings. In terms of automobile transportation, 3D printing technology has gradually been applied by many well-known car companies, which not only reduces the cost of mold opening, but also greatly shortens the time of research and development, and more quickly verifies that it may appear during the development process. The problem is to save time and cost. As we all know, in a highly competitive industry, the value of time will be magnified infinitely.

      The 3D printing industry continues to innovate itself, and it needs a long-term layout in the market.

      Despite the many advantages of 3D printing, the drawbacks of rapid development are still unavoidable – material issues, print speed issues, and specialized staffing. Materials are the primary problem that restricts the expansion of the 3D printing market. The development of high-speed and wider printing materials is an important development direction for 3D printer manufacturers. At the same time, professional knowledge and personnel are also important resources for the market to expand.

      Since the concept of Industry 4.0 was officially launched at the Hannover Messe in 2013, and with the support of governments, it is expected that the 3D printing industry will continue to grow in the future. In this process of rapid development, it is bound to be an accelerated process of reshuffle. The natural law of survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest will never be outdated, which means that the threshold of the 3D printing industry will be higher and higher. let us wait and see.