Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research) has published its “Q2 2025 3DP/AM Market Data and Forecast” for both the Metal AM and Polymer AM markets, along with its “Q2 2025 3DP/AM Market Insights” report which distills and analyzes the data. AM Research’s quarterly 3DP/AM market data product represents the most thorough and accurate data available worldwide, tracking markets by vendor, print technology, geography, and application (industry).
The data for Q2 2025 shows year over year total market (consisting of Metal, Polymer and Ceramic 3D printers, materials, and services) growth of 8.8%. Sequential total market size grew from $3.58B in Q1 2025 to $3.9B in Q2 2025. The “Q2 2025 Market Insights” report identifies a number of significant driving forces for the AM industry and analyzes leading opportunities for growth.
AM Research EVP Scott Dunham states, “It probably doesn’t feel like it for everyone, but it’s an exciting time for AM heading into the second half of 2025. We aren’t projecting a massive surge in growth, but a lot of pieces are very clearly falling into place for AM to reach the next level of its development in the next few years, and we see these developments happening in real time. It’s not often that we have to look more seriously at increasing our long term forecasts for AM, but that’s exactly what we’re talking about right now thanks to rapidly developing markets and applications in defense, aerospace, consumer products, and certain industrial segments. The near term is finally starting to look a bit more positive, but not everyone is positioned in the right way to benefit from what’s happening. Even still, we expect we’ll start to see positive press outweighing the negative by this time next year.”
Companies included in AMR’s Core Metals and Core Polymerstracking data and 3DP/AM Market Insights report include but are not limited to: 3D Systems, Stratasys, Nano Dimension (Markforged and Desktop Metal), Velo3D, Nikon SLM Solutions, EOS, Colibrium (GE Additive), Trumpf, Farsoon, BLT, HBD, Eplus, Oerlikon, Optomec, BeAM, HP, Formlabs, Prodways, Renishaw, Carbon, Sodick, Ultimaker, Ursa Major, US Army, US Air Force, AFRL, Cobra/PUMA Golf, Phillips Corp, Pratt & Whitney, FormAlloy, and XACT Metal.
About the Report
Additive Manufacturing Research’s “Core Metals” and “Core Polymers” market data products include nearly a decade of historical quarterly data and provide 10-year forward forecasts. Quarterly reports on the metal and polymer AM markets are available as a one-time or subscription purchase via AMR’s website and are customizable as needed. AM Research’s “3DP/AM Market Insights: Q2 2025”, a written analysis combined with proprietary charting and graphs, provides color and context to AM Research’s traditional Core Metal and Core Polymer market data products. The 3DP/AM Market Insights report is also available for purchase as a subscription or as a standalone product.
From the “3DP/AM Market Insights: Q2 2025” Report
- AM Research has increased its forecasts for the AM Polymers market due to high accessibility and increasing quality of low-cost machines (See chart in release).
- AM Services revenues grew in Q2 thanks to the energy and aerospace/defense industries, with most growth in metals, and stronger levels concentrated in China compared to Western markets.
- The Sinter-Based (Metal Binder Jetting) AM market is in flux due to market confusion and disruption from Desktop Metal acquisition and subsequent bankruptcy, followed by an asset sale. AM Research analyzes the implications and possible outcomes.
- As early as 2017, AM Research was the first firm to identify ‘suppressors’ as potential killer app for 3D printing. In this report AM Research identifies and analyzes a new application with similar market penetration potential.
Subscribe to our Newsletter
3DPresso is a weekly newsletter that links to the most exciting global stories from the 3D printing and additive manufacturing industry.
