3d printing predictions
2024 3D Printing Predictions from the Experts: Desktop Industrial 3D Printing
Since the inception of the desktop 3D printing market, these devices have largely existed in isolation, distinct islands separate in design and function from their industrial counterparts. However, with the…
2024 3D Printing Predictions from the Experts: Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing has attracted significant investment in recent years, with machine sales increasing by over tenfold in the past decade. The industry has witnessed the rise of large multi-laser…
2023 Dream 3D Printing Mergers and Acquisitions: Will Apple Buy…?
2022 saw far fewer mergers and acquisitions, as well as initial public offerings, than the cash-flush year before. However, this year’s drought may mean next year’s glut, as inflation slows…
2022 Predictions: How Auto 3D Printing is Set to Transform Ford, VW and More
Recently, our executive editor Joris Peels explained that, in the automotive industry, 3D printing is typically used most often for unique, mass-customized components; very low-run production items; “some weight savings…
2022 Predictions: Medical 3D Printing Is Disrupting Healthcare
According to Savi Baveja, HP’s Chief Strategy & Incubation Officer, technologies such as 3D printing and microfluidics are beginning to “realize the better outcomes that have long been promised of…
2022 Predictions: The State of Dental 3D Printing in 2022
Listed by SmarTech Analysis as “one of the most stable and fast-growing opportunities for 3D printing technologies” before the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest, dental 3D printing was expected to…
2022 Predictions: 3D Printing is Transforming the Aerospace and Space Industry
Advances in 3D printing are driving current trends in real solutions for real-world applications in aerospace and space manufacturing. Although the airline and aerospace industries were among the first to…
2022 Predictions: What Does the Year Hold for Large-Format 3D Printing?
As a tumultuous 2021 comes to a close, SmarTech Analysis has predicted that the 3D printing industry is poised for its greatest level of growth yet. The key verticals and…
3D Printing News Briefs: January 8, 2020
It’s the first 3D Printing News Briefs of 2020! To celebrate, we’ll start with some predictions for the industry made by three Ultimaker executives. Continuing on, Dassault Systèmes has the…
Christmas of the Future Includes 3D Printed Food, Virtual Christmas Trees, and Social Media for Pets
As Christmas approaches, many people are getting ready for the same traditions they celebrate every year. It’s a holiday of tradition, after all – whether that means the fairly universal…
Forecasting the Future
Looking ahead is tricky business. Many try, but most can’t do it well. Predicting what might occur in a year from now is one thing, but looking further out, such…
Additive Manufacturing Research Examines Metal 3D Printing Industry: 2016 in Review, Predictions for 2017
With barely a week left before New Year’s, year-end nostalgia tends to rear its head; I think most of the world agrees, though, that it’s about time for 2016 to…
Inside 3D Printing San Diego: Hod Lipson Discusses the Next 25 Years of 3D Printing
Inside 3D Printing San Diego is here. The conference, tied in as the Frontier Tech Forum alongside RoboUniverse and Virtual Reality Summit, officially kicked off this morning in San Diego….
Worldwide Spending on 3D Printing to Grow from Nearly $11 Billion to $26.7 Billion by 2019
According to the Semiannual 3D Printing Spending Guide just released by International Data Corporation (IDC) the 3D printing industry is going to be rapidly expanding in the next three years….
Additive Manufacturing — The Year Ahead
When Neil Burns founded Croft Filters with his brother Mark, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), was still the stuff of science fiction. Fast forward 28 years and not only have the…
Predictions for Future Include a Healthy Dose of 3D Printing
We’re only a couple of days in to the new year and so the idea of 2016 still feels like the future…and, for now, most of it is. So, without…
3D Printing’s Real Money
A few weeks ago, I spoke at the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org Digital Summit on the topic of 3D printing at retail. I really hope I made the case for…
The UPS Store’s “Ask the Experts” Panel at Inside 3D Printing Will Answer All Your Pressing 3D Printing Questions
At next week’s Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, put on by MecklerMedia, The UPS Store will be on hand to sponsor a panel that should answer a…
SmarTech: 3D Printing to Create $11B in Jewelry Revenue & Open Up $3.1B Dental Market by 2020
SmarTech Publishing is known for their detailed industry reports pertaining to the 3D printing, scanning, materials, and software markets. With an eye on the future, their researchers and analysts are…
When? Predictions as to When 3D Printed Cars, Homes, Organs & More Will Be Readily Available
If you are a frequent reader of 3DPrint.com, then you are probably pretty excited about what this technology will eventually mean for society as a whole. While the phrase ‘Third…
Why Experts Are Likely Underestimating the 2015 3D Printing Market
2014 has been a banner year for the 3D printing industry. Major corporations like Autodesk and HP have entered the space, while consumers have been the beneficiaries of major price…
3DPrint’s 3D Printing Predictions for 2015
Last May, our team at 3DPrint.com collaborated on a series of predictions for the remainder of 2014. As you may have seen, many of our predictions were spot on, while…
Review of 3DPrint.com’s 2014 3D Printing Predictions & How We Fared
In late January of this year, 3DPrint.com officially launched. Since that time the industry has changed quite a bit, slowly inching its way into the mainstream. In May, I decided…
Gartner Predicts That 217,250 3D Printers Will be Shipped Next Year, 2.3 Million by 2018
Gartner, the leading information technology research and advisory company, has been covering 3D printing for some time now. They, just like many others within the industry, have a rather rosy…
