3D Printing - IDTechEx Reports and Subscriptions

Materials present the strongest revenue opportunity within additive manufacturing, but understanding the variety of polymer, metal, and ceramic materials within 3D printing is critical to capitalizing on this opportunity. This report examines the status of established 3D printing materials, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes trends, and provides detailed market forecasts for additive manufacturing materials. For companies involved in 3D printing materials, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

Metal additive manufacturing offers compelling value-add for high revenue generating verticals and applications, but understanding its potential is key to exploiting its benefits. This report examines the status of established and emerging metal 3D printing technologies, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes metal materials, and provides detailed market forecasts for metal 3D printing. For companies in and outside metal additive manufacturing, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

Ceramic 3D printing presently exists as a niche of the overall 3D printing industry, but recently more companies - from start-ups to ceramics materials suppliers - have joined the field. This report will examine the status of ceramic 3D printing technologies and materials, identify major players, highlight interesting applications, and provide market forecasts for ceramic 3D printing. For any company looking to enter this small but growing specialty, this report is essential.

IDTechEx's 3D Printing Hardware: 2022-2032 report is designed to explain and analyze the growth of 3D printing hardware technologies and sales; it is made to be useful for any company in the 3D printing supply chain: materials makers, printer manufacturers, service providers, end-users, and more. This report breaks down the market into 17 technology segments to create 17 COVID-19 adjusted forecast lines for each individual segment. The forecasts provide a ten-year outlook for 3D printer installation base, new installations, replacement unit sales, and revenue from 3D printer sales, all broken down into 17 forecast lines.

3D printing of composite materials is reaching a commercial tipping point. 3D printing of polymer materials can have mechanical limitations that benefit from fiber reinforcement (or other functionalities), and composite manufacturing is known to be costly and challenging that can benefit from the moldless, rapid prototyping and automated approach that additive manufacturing enables. IDTechEx forecast that the market will rapidly rise to reach $2bn by 2031. This market report provides a comprehensive view for 3D printing market for composite materials, including granular 10-year forecasts, material and printer benchmarking studies and interview-based company profiles.

Though best known for low-volume, low-cost part production, polymer 3D printing is expanding beyond prototyping and one-offs to penetrate higher value applications, reaching $21 billion in market size by 2033. This is supported by innovation in polymer printing technologies that expand access to a better-performing polymer materials portfolio. Players interested and active in polymer 3D printing would benefit from IDTechEx's technology and market analysis to stay ahead of the competition.

This IDTechEx report assesses the competing technologies that will enable PCBs to be replaced with integrated electronics, saving space, weight and reducing manufacturing complexity. It covers electronic functionality to 3D surfaces, in-mold electronics (IME), and fully 3D printed electronics. Also included are market forecasts, company profiles, readiness level assessments, case studies, and identification of technological challenges/opportunities, thus providing a clear picture of the emerging 3D / additive electronics landscape.

Aerospace has the highest carbon footprint per tonne-km over any other mode of transportation. Regulatory demands coupled with economic and performance advantages mean that saving any weight is a constant target. This report looks at the key lightweighting approaches for this sector and which players and technologies stand to be the main winners and losers. The predominant focus is on advanced lightweight materials and the rise of additive manufacturing.

After years of promise, we are witnessing the first major market adoption of nanocarbons. Although known for several decades, with a large amount of commercial engagement, and some extraordinary properties, CNTs have largely been kept to specific applications and relatively low market sales until now. IDTechEx forecast the CNT market to exceed 70 ktpa annual demand by 2032, driven by the role in energy storage. This market report gives a comprehensive overview of the CNT industry including the manufacturers, material and process landscape, applications, and forecasts.

Aerogels are a family of nanoporous materials that have been known for nearly 100 years. There has been a complex history, with key commercial uptake starting in the 21{^st} century. The market is dominated by silica aerogel blankets. This is used as insulation material predominantly for the oil & gas industry. There is lots of activity as new players scale up, particularly in China, and new applications are found, from EV battery packs to building & construction. Beyond silica, there is the emerging field of polymer and carbon aerogels that are at a very early-stage of commercialisation and have the capacity to take the industry in entirely new directions. This report covers the main technologies, players, and markets for the aerogel industry. IDTechEx has been studying the field for many years and brings the most comprehensive and accurate information on this evolving market.

The prevalence of CVD and the high economic burden it represents to healthcare systems demonstrate the urgent necessity for solutions to address this epidemic. This report highlights current trends, analyses market landscapes and offers insights into opportunities and challenges for the future. Its investigation into emerging technologies is divided into three parts - detection, monitoring and treatment - to provide an in-depth assessment of recent and upcoming developments.

Emerging semiconductor laser technologies will revolutionise industrial material processing and optical sensing markets. IDTechEx forecast the global laser diode and direct diode laser market to reach a size of $13.985 billion by 2029. Remarkably, the optical sensing segment grows by an order of magnitude during this period. Automotive and electronics industries will benefit greatly from advances in laser manufacturing, 3D sensing and imaging, lidar, and industrial machine vision.

The report provides coverage of highly innovative laser technologies and the rapidly growing fiber laser market, which are rarely explored by market research companies. The report is authored by an analyst with a technical background in laser physics research.

In-Mold Electronics 2023-2033 analyses the technology and market opportunities associated with this emerging manufacturing methodology. Drawing on over 20 company profiles, the majority based on interview, this report evaluates the technical processes, material requirements, applications, and competing methodologies associated with IME such as functional film bonding. It includes 10-year market forecasts by technology and application sector, expressed as both revenue and IME panel area. For the largest target market of automotive interiors, these forecasts for human machine interfaces (HMI) are segmented into mechanical and four distinct types of capacitive switches.

Graphene has long been seen as a "wonder material" and the solution to many of the world's challenges. The reality is very different and an immediate impact was not observed. However, the industry has been progressing over the past decade and a tipping point is now being observed with notable trials progressing into orders, significant capacity installations, and price reductions. Grahene-related materials are a large family ranging from powders to wafers; this report looks at all these forms. Bechmarking studies, granular forecasts, company profiles, manufacturer capacity/revenue/P&L are all included. IDTechEx has an extensive history in this industry and leverage an extensive amount of primary research to bring the reader the most accurate and up to date technical and market information. Beyond graphene there is an emerging family of 2D materials each with unique properties and potential across a range of commercial applications. Nearly all are at a very early-stage of development; IDTechEx provides an assessment and outlook with a specific focus on boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, MXenes, and Xenes.