On January 16, 2025, according to the Resource database, the Global Market Intelligence Company published the latest report and the global 3D printing market spent in the third quarter of 2024. Industrial grade (price ≥ 100,000 US dollars ) and average (price at 20,000 to 100,000 US dollars) 3D printers have decreased respectively by the year.24%And8%Petrol however, the 3D printer in terms of entry (price <2500) continues to maintain strong growth, and the shipping volume increases the year -NE -Year28%Inject a hint of hope for the global market.
Chris Connery, Vice-President of Context Global Analysis, said: “Although the industrial market is faced with challenges, hot sales of products at the level of entry show that the consumption market promotes the whole of industry to evolve towards the new height. ” The price range and the technology category in 2024 in 2024, the market performance review in the third quarter of the year:
The industrial 3D printer market continued to decrease. decreased by 19% over a year. Globally, the shipments of industrial metal systems and industrial polymers have decreased by 24% and 25%, respectively. Although Chinese suppliers have played active in the merger system (PBF) in the metal powder bed in recent years, global shipments are still declining, the Chinese market has dropped by 37%, North America has dropped From 25% and Western Europe decreased by 13%.
3D industrial polymer printer
In the third quarter of 2024, the 3D solidification optical printer became the main challenge of the industrial polymers market. As a world leader in optical hardening technology, LIANTAI technology (mainly sold to China) and 3D systems (mainly sold to the west) are affected by the drop in dental market demand, and shipments have Strongly fell. In addition, other industrial polymer technologies are also faced with challenges: selective laser sintering (SLS) and material extrusion technology has decreased by 15%, respectively, and Jet jet technology shipments equipment decreased by 43%.
3D industrial metal printer
Although the metal 3D printer is relatively stable before the second quarter of 2024, the following shipments began to decrease. In the third quarter of 2024, the volume of sales of the binder jet system remained stable, but the expeditions of other technologies decreased. As a traditional technology of industrial metal printers, the pink bed fusion system (PBF) represents 74% of shipments, but has decreased by 24% over a year. The second largest metallic printing technology – energy orientation deposit sales (DED) decreased by 18%-ur on the case.
Among them, Yi Jia, with the increase of 41% years on expeditions, became the first company in the third quarter of 2024. Trumpf and Renishaw are the only two other companies to have made shipments of the year on This quarter. From a income point of view, EOS continues to run the market and Nikon SLM Solutions, E -Canada three dimensions and Renishaw has also reached income growth of the year.
From the point of view of regional performance, Chinese and Western suppliers are faced with a drop in sales, especially in the field of industrial metal PBF. The PBF systems of Chinese suppliers have decreased by 26% over a year, but there are differences in individual performance: three -dimensional shipping shipments increased from the year -Ne -Year, while The expeditions of Platinum Liney have decreased significantly. It should be noted that the laser laser laser device at the level of the “rice level” was delivered this quarter, and the expeditions of the NXG series and the multi-laser machines of Nikon SLM Solutions and multiple also accelerate.
The reduction in the demand for industrial grade systems has continued to affect the market of the average order. Among them, stratasys maintains a leading position in market share, but its hardware suppression printer has poor sales performance. On the other hand, the market share of 3D systems has further decreased, and it has now fallen to the sixth place in the average market.
On the other hand, the performance of Chinese suppliers is particularly eye capture, in particular Liantai technology, Chinese-Swiss technology and flashing technology. At the same time, the total expeditions of Western suppliers have dropped by 24%. It should be noted that Flashforge has become a highlight of the management market in mid-term with its solid sales on the jewelry market with its Waxjet materials spray printer on the jewelry market.
Although the printers of professional 3D printers in the third quarter of 2024 have slightly decreased by 1% over a year, this performance benefited from the successful promotion of the new solid optical platform LFD of Formlabs. Promoted by this, the volume of optical solidification printers in this price range increased by 26% on the case.
However, the performance of material extrusion technology (FDM / FFF) on a professional market is not optimistic. With the lower price, the 3D input level printer gradually addressed professional products in terms of performance.
In the third quarter of 2024, the number of 3D printers in the entry level increased by 28% over a year and maintained rapid growth in several consecutive quarters. This significant growth shows that high demand for markets at the level of entry becomes an important driving force for the development of the entire 3D printing industry.
Among them, Chuangxiang three dimensions still lead the market to the entry level, but its growth rate has slowed down. At the same time, old companies such as Takuzhu and Flash Casting have improved their market share. In general, continuous sales of the 3D printers market in terms of entry have not only brought more choices to consumers, but also injected new vitality into the 3D printing industry, which contributes to compensate for the market weakness in the price range.
At the end of 2024, the 3D printing market showed a high level of fluctuations. The major changes in certain industries highlight the uncertainty of the current market. The Nano Dimension plans to acquire office metal and the brand, but the plan is always unreasonable due to the complete adjustment of the management and the board of directors. At the same time, other companies such as Bigrep and Produced have undergone changes in leadership, while Voxeljet announced its intention to sell it to a technical investment company. In addition, the Nexa3D has reduced the extent of the operation, while Velo3D seems to have just avoided the bankruptcy crisis.
Market status and prospects
According to the analysis of the context, in 2024, the global industrial 3D printer market was seriously affected by high interest rates and low capital expenses. is close to the lowest point of epidemic blocking 2020. However, the market should inaugurate the resumption of the second half of 2025. While interest rates decrease and expenses in recovery capital, the volume of shipping of printers industrial throughout the year will increase by 14%. Shipments of medium and professional diet systems should increase respectively by 12% and 6%.
The context pointed out that, although faced with many challenges in 2024, long -term perspectives are always optimistic. With the drop in investment costs and the continuous increase in market demand for large -scale production, it is expected that by 2026, the 3D printing industry will enter a stable stadium in stable growth in Double figure, and the annual growth rate could even reach 30% -40%. However, this optimistic perspective still faces key risk factors such as potential policy changes and economic uncertainty.
