After a year of stagnation, the industrial additive manufacturing market has clearly resumed its expansion path in 2025. According to the latest AMPOWER report, the sector has grown 5.6% year-over-year, reaching a business volume exceeding eleven billion euros. This rebound is primarily driven by increased demand for end-use part production and a rise in material consumption, signaling growing operational maturity.
Segmented dynamics: polymer explosion and metal consolidation 📈
The breakdown of growth reveals two divergent realities. On one hand, low-cost desktop polymer systems have experienced growth exceeding 30%, gaining industrial relevance through their implementation in print farms for serial production. On the other hand, the metal additive manufacturing market shows a dynamic of simultaneous consolidation and fragmentation, with the entry of new suppliers, especially Asian ones. The sectors driving demand the most are defense, aerospace, and consumer goods, acting as the main engines of the industry.
Solid projection: where is the sector heading? 🔮
Medium-term prospects are notably optimistic. The study projects a compound annual growth rate of 13.5% for the next five years, suggesting a doubling of the market in a relatively short time. This forecast, based on extensive interviews with users and suppliers, confirms that additive manufacturing is consolidating as a pillar of industrial transformation, with adoption increasingly oriented toward production and less toward prototyping.
What key factors have driven the recovery of the industrial additive manufacturing market in 2025, surpassing the 11 billion euro barrier, and how are they translating into real productive applications beyond prototyping?
(P.S.: At Foro3D we predict markets like we predict the weather: sometimes the TV news gets it right)