On April 26, 2020, SmarTech analysis company released the latest ceramic rapid prototyping manufacturing (AM) market report "Ceramic rapid prototyping parts production: 2019-2030". The report believes that even with the current COVID-19 outbreak, by 2030, the revenue of the ceramic additive manufacturing market is estimated to reach 4.8 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, the report believes that both technical and traditional final parts will promote these opportunities in the medium and long term.
Although some companies have developed complete ceramic printing technology, ceramic 3D printing is still an emerging technology field. SmarTech predicts that ceramic 3D printing will change in the middle of 2025. With the overall development of all major ceramic additive manufacturing technologies and the establishment of sufficient serial production, the ceramic 3D printing market will usher in after 2025 An inflection point. After this inflection point, the company expects that once the market fully recovers from the COVID-19 slowdown, the ceramic additive manufacturing application market will triple in size.
Hewlett-Packard’s Multi Jet Fusion, ExOne’s traditional binder jet technology, Xaar’s high-speed sintering technology and Prodways/3DCeram’s MOVINGLight technology all herald the coming of mass production of ceramic 3D printed parts.
The report subdivided technical materials and traditional ceramic materials, such as the alumina 3D printing of companies such as Lithoz or Admatec compared with the sand printing of companies such as ExOne. This also provides information for the specific applications covered in the report, from medical or electrical components using technical materials to specific applications such as sand cores and molds for molds. Of course, the report also discusses the additive manufacturing service organizations that provide ceramic printing and the types of parts. The companies discussed are 3DCeram-Sinto, voxeljet, SGL Carbon, Schunck Carbon Technologies, XJet, Nanoe, etc.
Interestingly, the report takes into account the impact of COVID-19 on the ceramic additive manufacturing market, and the modeling related to the resulting economic slowdown, and how this impact will continue into 2025. Obviously, the company has established two levels of impact. In the short term, some market segments will be affected more obviously, while others will be less affected. By 2024, it will be re-adjusted to the previously predicted level.
According to the market research company, this will also be reflected in the regional impact, and the Asia-Pacific region will benefit from more effective business and production management methods in the pandemic. SmarTech believes that countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially China and Japan, have adopted ceramic additive manufacturing at a faster rate than European and American countries.
