
GLOBAL market
$238 million – 2015
$280 million – 2016
$1.5 billion – 2026*
Fueling growth
- Prevalence of disorders
- Personal care awareness
- Increasing chronic diseases
- Higher accident incidence
- Growing geriatric population
Main materials
- Resins
- Plastics
- Metals
Technology
- Selective laser sintering (SLS)
- Stereolithography (SLA)
- Digital light processing (DLP)
- Fused deposition modeling (FDM)
- Electronic beam melting (EBM)
- Polyjet/inkjet
At the top
Technology – SLS
Highest revenue share
$230 million by 2026*
15.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
Material – plastics
Highest revenue share
$984.7 million by 2026*
17.2% CAGR
Application - Orthopedic
Highest revenue share
$643.5 million by 2026*
19.9% CAGR
Top 5 regional markets
- North America
- Western Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Asia-Pacific excluding Japan
- Japan
Key players
3D Systems
Arcam AB
Bio3D Technologies
Cyfuse Biomedical
EnvisionTEC
EOS
FabRx
Stratasys
*projected

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