The latest research report "Ceramic Additive Manufacturing in 2020" predicts that by 2030, the ceramic additive manufacturing market will grow to $ 3.1 billion, including all hardware, materials and related parts revenue. The entire ceramic market, including all traditional ceramic-related revenues, may reach US $ 4.8 billion by the same year.
Most ceramic additive manufacturing market segments began to re-grow at the end of 2021, and were consistent with previous growth forecasts by 2024. The current forecast timetable shows that the adoption of ceramic additive manufacturing technology will experience an inflection point after 2025, because all the major additive manufacturing technologies that support the production of ceramic final parts are mature and have sufficient strength in the market to Support mass production.
High precision 3D printed ceramic parts
3DCeram-Sinto and Lithoz have become leaders in the current ceramic AM market and technology. Ceramic stereolithography has become the main available process for the production of ceramic series parts. Other examples include ExOne and voxeljet for adhesive jet technology, and the innovative companies XJet and Nanoe that have sprouted in ceramic nanoparticle 3D printing. In the newly launched silicon carbide 3D printing field, SGL Carbon and Schunck Carbon Technologies are the current leaders.
Ceramic 3D printing market forecast from 2020 to 2030
To assess the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic epidemic on the ceramic additive manufacturing market, the report considered many variables and elaborately designed an additional model to take into account the impact of the global economy ’s slowdown over the expected sustained period . In the short term, some market segments will be more affected; it is expected that by 2024, the impact of other market segments will be less severe and readjusted to the previous forecast level.
It is expected that after the inflection point in 2025, the market for ceramic additive manufacturing applications will triple. By then, the market is expected to fully recover from the related economic slowdown, and companies in the field of ceramic 3D printing will regain their vitality.
The response of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic pandemic crisis in different regions of the world will have a significant impact on the overall geographical distribution of revenue. The Asia-Pacific region will be the winner due to the implementation of more effective business and manufacturing methods. Countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially China and Japan, have adopted ceramic additive manufacturing technology, and their production speed is faster than most European and American countries.
Stereolithography is still the most widely used technology for industrial ceramic 3D printing today. Market leaders in this field, including Lithoz in Austria and 3DCeram in France, demonstrated different technologies and followed different business models. In 2019, both companies demonstrated systems and workflows specifically tailored for mass production of parts.
The forecast includes for the first time new technologies for CIM (Ceramic Injection Molding), which can be processed using an open standard thermoplastic filament extrusion 3D printer to produce green bodies that can be processed after degumming and sintering. In the past two years, at least three companies have introduced these materials.