The commercial additive manufacturing market recorded renewed development of 5.6% in 2025, in accordance with AMPOWER’s annual market report.
The German-based technique consultancy reported a interval of stagnation in 2024.
It cites an ‘elevated demand for part-making and better materials consumption’ as key elements in a rise in business revenues.
Within the tools sector, the lower-cost machine phase particularly noticed development due to a rise within the variety of models bought.
A major new focus of the report is the marketplace for desktop polymer programs (funding prices beneath EUR 10,000). This phase is claimed to have seen an ‘spectacular development of over 30%’ and is more and more gaining industrial relevance. Firms are progressively investing in large-scale “print farms” fairly than relying solely on costly particular person industrial programs, AMPOWER suggests.
Within the area of metallic additive manufacturing, AMPOWER experiences, ‘the pattern in direction of consolidation and fragmentation continues.’ The ten largest producers of metallic PBF (Laser Powder Mattress Fusion) programs barely misplaced market share, now holding roughly 78.3% of world income, in comparison with 80% the earlier yr. Concurrently, ‘new gamers, notably from China, are more and more getting into the market.’
The defence and area, in addition to shopper, industries stay the central development drivers for metallic AM. With development charges exceeding 20% over the past 4 years, AMPOWER says navy OEMs and startups are more and more utilising the expertise to unravel provide chain points and produce drones and next-generation elements.
Matthias Schmidt-Lehr, Accomplice at AMPOWER, stated: “We’re seeing the market regain vital momentum after the flatline in 2024. The event within the desktop phase is especially thrilling; it’s now not reserved for hobbyists however is more and more assembly industrial necessities and difficult conventional classifications.”
AMPOWER says that for the reason that report is balanced in Euros, the at the moment weak Greenback trade price led to a calculated discount in development. Moreover, the unsure customs state of affairs influenced the funding behaviour of consumers, particularly for the reason that USA represents a serious market. Though the market thus fell in need of the unique forecasts from the earlier yr, the long-term pattern continues to level upwards: the annual development forecast for the full market was barely raised to 13.5%.
The AMPOWER Report 2026 is out there in full right here.