The 2026 edition of our AMA: Energy online conference returns on April 30th. Register now! Market intelligence firm CONTEXT has published its Q4 2025 analysis of global 3D printer hardware shipments, with growth concentrated at opposite ends of the price spectrum. The…
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Did Industry Misjudge AM’s Value? Findings from AMGTA Explain The Bias
The 2026 edition of our AMA: Energy online conference returns on April 30th. Register now! The Additive Manufacturing Green Trade Association (AMGTA) has published its 2026 Vision Paper laying out an evaluative framework for assessing AM’s resource efficiency across entire production systems.…
Industrial AM market returns to growth as desktop polymer segment expands
German consultancy AMPOWER has published its AMPOWER Report 2026 reporting that the industrial AM market returned to growth in 2025 after stagnating in 2024, reaching a volume of over €11 billion (approx. $12.7 billion). Its latest annual market study puts…
How Far Has AM in Healthcare Really Come? Find out at RAPID + TCT 2026
Something has matured in how the AM industry thinks about healthcare, and the conversation is sharper for it. Where the industry once debated potential, practitioners are now deep in the specifics: how to manufacture custom medical products at scale, how…
A Donut-shaped Market: Stratasys’ Yoav Zeif outlines Additive’s Next Phase at AMS 2026
Not obvious that Yoav Zeif would open by thanking the audience for braving the New York snow and market turbulence to reach this year’s AMS event*, but that was his starting point. “Another challenging year in the industry. I don’t…
What RAPID + TCT’s Essential AM Conference Track Is Really About
Ask anyone who has attended RAPID + TCT across multiple years what keeps them coming back, and the answers converge on the same thing: the calibre of conversation the event makes possible. Engineers talk to executives. Researchers talk to operators.…
Why I Was Wrong About the AMUG Conference
I once described the AMUG Conference as agenda-setting. That was imprecise, but not in the way you might expect. The problem wasn’t that AMUG doesn’t shape what the industry talks about. It’s that agenda-setting implies a program committee deciding what…
AM Sector Revenue Reaches $24.2BN as Growth Shifts From Machines to Services
The additive manufacturing industry grew 10.9% last year to reach $24.2 billion in global revenues, but the headline figure tells only part of the story. Beneath it sits a market that is changing shape in ways that matter more than…
Six Fault Lines That Will Reshape Additive Manufacturing, 2026–2028
The AM industry has spent years perfecting the technology. The next two years will test whether the business models, regulatory frameworks, and institutional structures around that technology can keep pace. Six structural pressures are converging, each rooted in forces already…
Confidence returns to Additive Manufacturing as Executives Signal Improving Outlook for 2026
After a few rough years, the mood among additive manufacturing executives is shifting. Not euphoric, but noticeably better. New data from the 3D Printing Industry Executive Survey shows that 70.3 per cent of respondents expect business conditions in 2026 to…
