见解

上下文项目3D打印发货增长,因为西方恢复加快了步伐

市场见解公司CONTEXThas reported that 3D printer shipments in U.S. and European markets are starting to recover but remain below pre-pandemic levels.

在H1 2020,CONTEXT identified a rapid rise在国内对中国工业3D打印机的需求中,该印刷商的运输增长超过了西方竞争对手的运输。但是,凭借其第一季度的2021数据,该公司现在表示,这种复苏也开始在美国和欧洲反映,而高端3D打印机货物的总数与2020年代相比,高端3D打印机的总数增加了43%。

“Shipments of new products continue to be a main driver of growth in the 3D printer industry, indicating that markets remain eager to try new technologies in an effort to find the ever-elusive silver bullet,” explains Chris Connery, VP of Global Analysis at CONTEXT. “With more new products on the horizon this year than seen in recent periods, the projection for 2021 is now one of solid shipment growth.”

An engineer using Stratasys' F900 3D printer.
环境已经确定了第1季度2021年期间工业聚合物3D打印机销售的强劲增长。通过Stratasys摄影。

A cautious industrial outlook

Following CONTEXT’s earlier reports ofsequential shipment growth in Q3 2020,其最新分析确定了这种趋势的加速,尤其是在工业聚合物印刷市场中。与2020年期相比,第1季度2021年第1季度的运输增长了74%,超过2019年第1季度的数字增加了12%,但这并没有反映在高端金属打印机的运输中,这仅增长了4%。

根据上下文,高端聚合物系统需求中的这种反弹可能归因于中国的增长UnionTech, as well as strong sales performances fromStratasys,Carbon,生命值,3D系统EOS。然而,尽管有这些积极的见解,但分析公司还引用了正在进行的西方疫苗推广作为中国的一个因素,仍然是第1季度第1季度工业运输市场最大的市场。

Additionally, over the course of Q1 2021, global shipments of industrial 3D printers still lagged 3% behind the figures achieved in Q1 2019, and looking ahead to H2 2021, Connery says that COVID-related restrictions could yet disrupt vital in-person trade shows likeRAPIDformnext,补充说,他们的潜在影响力“仍然不清楚”。

Formnext Connect 2020的主要舞台。图片通过Mesago Messe Frankfurt。
Context的Sean Connery说,像Formnext这样的大流行贸易展览的潜在影响力“尚不清楚”。图片通过Mesago Mese Frankfurt。

分析“ covid颠簸”

就哪种背景配音“设计”类机器的价格从20,000美元到$ 10万美元,它将该部门的11%年度运输增长的大部分归因于西方公司。尽管中国对设计级别系统的需求在第1季度2020年至2021年之间确实增加了66%,但在亚洲以外的公司占总销售额的81%,其中Stratasys,3D系统和3D系统占EnvisionTec主要驾驶货物。

专业的3D打印机或价格为$ 2.5k- $ 20k的产品,根据“ Covid Bump”受益于“ Covid Bump”,在这种情况下,工人越来越多地寻求丰富的功能系统来在家中工作。与2019年第1季度的大传统时期相比,专业机器的单位体积运输在2021年第1季度增长了22%,该地区的收入在同一时期增长了45%。

最后,关于个人,套件和业余爱好者打印机的价格不到2500美元,上下文质疑大流行期间需求的繁荣是否可持续。该分析公司推测供应短缺可能导致了双重排序,偏斜数字,而完全组装的系统货物依次下降了24%,表明整个类别的增长不一致。

An oil and gas production plant. Photo by John Ciccarelli for the California Bureau of Land Management
Context表示,3D打印机供应商看到对石油和天然气客户的感兴趣。加利福尼亚土地管理局的约翰·奇卡雷利(John Ciccarelli)摄。

A COVID-dependent recovery

尽管上下文对第一季度2021的分析描绘了部分经过部分重新的3D印刷行业的混合图片,但它说该行业的长期前景仍然“非常积极”。该公司与许多机器供应商进行了联系,发现新客户对金属系统的兴趣开始增加,并且从石油和天然气行业中表达了特别的兴趣。

Once the rest of FY 2021 has played out, CONTEXT is also forecasting a 23% rise in revenue gained from the sale of industrial, design and professional systems to “institutional” clientele. While anticipating that polymer launches from标记桌面金属will drive sales growth, CONTEXT sees metal-centric releases fromnexa3d,Essentium,SLM SolutionsExOneas vital to this as well.

Ultimately, the company’s projection for FY 2021 is one of “solid shipment growth compared to both 2020 and 2019 for all types of printers,” which marks the continued transition of 3D printing from prototyping into full-scale manufacturing, but Connery also retains at the report’s conclusion, that these predictions depend heavily on the pandemic continuing to recede.

“All this activity bodes well for growth in 2021 – as long as global COVID recovery is not halted,” concluded Connery. “The longer-term outlook remains bullish for the AM technologies most focused on volume serial production (including powder bed fusion and vat photopolymerization of polymers and binder-jetting of metals), as the movement of 3D printing into serial production, rather than merely prototyping, accelerates.”

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特色图片显示Stratasys的F770 3D打印机,其中一种系统上下文已确定为“设计”机器发货增长。通过Stratasys的照片。