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In 2013 the 3D print and additive manufacturing industry scale is over $3000000000
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Market research company Wohlers Associates released its latest report -- "Wohlers Report 2014" report, in-depth discussion and Analysis on the global added manufacturing and 3D printing industry. The report includes the industry growth, competitive products and services, and the future development ideas. The report shows that in 2013 the global 3D print market (including all global products and services) grew to $3070000000. To achieve the highest in 17 years the average annual compound growth rate (CAGR) - 34.9%. In the past 26 years, the average growth of the global 3D print income rate was 27%; while in the past three years (2011-2013 years) compound annual growth rate of 32.3%.
"Wohlers Report 2014" is a comprehensive research report, which covers all aspects of 3D print, including its development history, applications, processes, materials and manufacturers. Specific content involves the progress, investment in R & D, as well as the government, academia and industry cooperation behavior, and summarizes the development status of 3D printing in the world.
Wohlers Associates believes that the industry will continue to maintain strong growth in the next few years. The market's prosperity and development, the main driving force from the price is lower than the $5000 3D printer sales, and expand the 3D printing technology to manufacture parts of fields, especially in metal parts.
"At present, the industry is undergoing great changes we have not yet seen in the past 20 years," one of two authors of Tim Caffrey Wohlers Associates, senior adviser to the company, the report said: "the most exciting is that we are now only touched the tip of the iceberg of the industry."
Article source: -- "laser world"
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