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The 3D Printing Service Bureau is Dead, Long Live the 3D Printing Service Bureau
The high-touch, high-quality 3D printing service is under threat. With OEMs starting huge services, polymer companies getting into the service game, and giant manufacturing firms looking to be the biggest…
Are We Finally at the Long-Awaited 3D Printing Inflection Point?
In my near-decade long tenure as a professional analyst to the 3D printing and additive manufacturing space, there has been near continuous talk about market inflection points—a time when the…
Metal 3D Printing: Who Will Win the Laser Wars?
There’s a war raging in the metal additive manufacturing. It’s particularly interesting timing too, given the current state of uncertainty in manufacturing and key end markets like aerospace and automotive…
Signs of the Additive Manufacturing Comeback
Return to Growth Hit hard by the initial impacts of coronavirus lockdowns, early predictions for a quick return to growth for additive manufacturing are already moving from fantasy to reality….
Critical Analysis: 3D Systems
Earlier this year, just before the onset of COVID-19 lockdowns, CEO of 3D Systems (DDD), Vyomesh Joshi, announced his plans to retire. Joshi’s departure came at a critical time for…
Critical Analysis: Desktop Metal’s SPAC Deal
By now you’ve probably heard about the latest surprise in additive manufacturing startup companies going public. During what is clearly not the best of times for the metal additive industry,…
Challenges Face Metal 3D Printing Powder Suppliers in 2020
Most AM companies which report public information noted during their Q1 releases that they expected Q2 to be much more heavily impacted by COVID-19. They weren’t wrong. Shutdowns and uncertainties…
Additive Manufacturing Software: All Grown Up
SmarTech Analysis believes we are now entering a new phase of AM capabilities where the relative importance of software and hardware are reversing; an age where software is going to…
Additive Manufacturing: The Ongoing Uncertainties and Market Shares
SmarTech Analysis has recently published its Q1 2020 additive manufacturing market guidance for the metal additive manufacturing industry, highlighting the first quarter in an economic universe gripped by effects of…
Metal Additive Market Reset. How Leading Metal AM Firms Will Weather the Economic Storm
First quarter 2020 market data continues to become available from the world’s leading additive manufacturing companies, shedding more light on how the economic fallout from the global pandemic is impacting…
Future Additive Market Strategies: First Quarter 2020 Financial Reports
The financial world has been holding its collective breath in anticipation of the release of financial results from influential AM companies after the first quarter of 2020 came to its…
Beyond the Virus – How the 3D Printing Industry’s Response to Pandemic Will Shape Its Future
By Scott Dunham Vice President of Research, SmarTech Analysis It’s time to start looking at where additive manufacturing will go in a “post COVID-19” world. More precisely, what does the…
3DPrint.com PRO: Here’s How Much Medical Equipment the World’s Additive Manufacturing Equipment Could Produce in 2020
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