Global Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing Market Size Likely to Surpass At a CAGR of 20.91% By 2033

According to current market research conducted by the CMI Team, the global Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing Market size is expected to record a CAGR of 20.91% from 2024 to 2033. In 2024, the market size is projected to reach a valuation of USD 517.32 Million. By 2033, the valuation is anticipated to reach USD 3,367.95 Million.

Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing Market: Overview

The Market in the Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing industry is growing rapidly in turn from a high rise in demand and technological advancement in many companies, thus changing the trend of the Metal Powder for additive Manufacturing market.

In aerospace and automotive sectors, more requirement of complex, lightweight parts that enhance fuel efficiency as well as speed up production, drives the adoption of metal powders comprising aluminum, titanium, and nickel alloys. In addition, the medical field is gradually beginning to use metal powders for 3D printing to produce prosthetics, customized implants, and dental products using bio-compatible materials such as stainless steel and titanium that are in great demand.

All the processes of Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) and Directed Energy Deposition (DED) are technically being developed to increase the speed and precision levels of 3D printing. These developments are increasing the range of 3D printing to include a greater number of high-performance and complex parts.

Furthermore, usage of high-performance alloys and specialty metal powders specifically tailored for the application is appropriate and more prevalent, especially in those with high environmental demands such as energy and oil & gas. The second heavy trend is sustainability where companies are working towards waste reduction based on recycling the methods of energy-efficient production and metal powders.

The market is also experiencing geographical growth mainly in the Asia-Pacific region where both aerospace and automotive sectors are increasing. Specifically, both India and China have a strong hold in the aforementioned regions. Thus, the growing demand for innovation, customization in materials, and sustainability are the major trends determining the market for metal powder for additive manufacturing.

Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing Market: Growth Factors and Dynamics

The Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing Market Presents Significant Growth Opportunities Due to Several Factors.

• Growing Applications across Industries: This situation is prevalent in diversified industries such as industrial manufacturing, aerospace, automotive as well as the healthcare sector, thereby enhancing the market for metal powders. These areas rely on AM to produce tough, lightweight, and challenging elements, the demand for better metal powders, nickel, titanium, and aluminum alloys.

• Technological Developments in Additive Manufacturing and Powder Construction: This is a result of constant upgrading of AM capability in terms of better 3D systems printing and method of powder manufacturing where particularly atomization has been key in developing better metal powder uniformity in accuracy and thus boosting the market.

• Sustainability Initiatives: Globally, the manufacturing industry has been encouraged to adopt sustainable manufacturing with the goal of minimizing the consumption of material and energy, something AM offers. It is a third advantage of metal powders that they can be produced near-net shape, thus requiring less waste and resources, which is important factor for sustainable development of the market in the long term.

• Improved Focus on Lightweight Materials: While enterprises continue efforts to improve energy intensity and eat back expenditures, more attentiveness is being paid to boosting efficiency by employing lightweight materials, particularly for automotive and aerospace industries. Such components can be produced using metal powders, to the back of increased use of the latter.

• Design and Customization Freedom: Additive Manufacturing makes possible complex and highly individualized design solutions that are hard or intrinsically unachievable using conventional manufacturing methodologies. This ability to create personalized product is suitable to industries looking for faster product develop, personalized products and services hence adding value to metal powders.

• Government and Industry Support: Favourable investments and polices by the players in the industry and the government, in promoting additive manufacturing for other uses particularly in health, defence, and industrial sub industries are enhancing the market’s growth.

Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing Market: New Partnerships

• In October 2024, Sandvik AB launched a hot-work tool steel powder, Osprey HWTS 50, designed for laser-based additive manufacturing with better-quality printability. According to the company, it can also be used with MIM (Metal Injection Molding)& HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing).

• In May 2024, a Germany-based metal powder seller and buyer launched a new online market. According to the company, the new platform is planned to renovate how industries obtain metal powders for Additive Manufacturing and associated applications by delivering full transparency on delivery terms and prices.

• In June 2024, Materialise, a 3D printing services and software provider, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ArcelorMittal Powders to build solutions to enhance metal 3D printing strategies and laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) equipment.

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Metal Powder for additive Manufacturing Market: COVID-19 Analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic was very severe as far as the global Metal Powder for additive Manufacturing market is concerned. The pandemic caused a halt and delays in the global supply chain, thereby causing a stoppage and delays in raw material supply and production.

Businesses such as aerospace and automotive were a large consumer of metal powders for additive manufacturing and therefore experienced declined demand on account of suspended manufacturing activities and reduced consumer spending. This led to the melting away of demand in the market because most of the ongoing projects were put on hold or stopped.

However, the pandemic also brought into sharp relief the advantages of additive manufacturing, which are mostly its speed, flexibility, and ability to produce customized, complex parts. Many companies resorted to additive manufacturing to converse supply shortages, especially for medical equipment including PPE and ventilator parts.

A mounting use of 3D printing for the creation of serious devices and implants by medical sector increased demand in bio-compatible metal powders. Most of such powders were mainly stainless steel and titanium, because markets improved, and market for metal powders in additive manufacturing did a comeback.

Companies reoriented their supply chain strategies to emphasize local manufacturing and to digitize production processes, thus benefiting 3D printing. Another factor is that sustainability transitions are now fueling the change, as additive manufacturing produces less waste than traditional methods of production.

As such, although the pandemic slightly lengthened the maturity curve of market growth, in the end, it has accelerated metal powder adoption in additive manufacturing among large industry.

List of the prominent players in the Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing Market:

• EOS
• Arcam
• Concept Laser
• 3D systems
• Trumpf
• Renishaw
• Optomec
• Matsuura Machinery
• ExOne
• Ping
• Phenix Systems
• Plunkett Associates
• Pratt & Whitney
• Progold MTU
• Metalysis
• GE
• Puris
• Sandvik AB
• Carpenter Technology Corporation
• GKN Powder Metallurgy
• Höganäs AB
• Others

The Metal Powders for Additive Manufacturing Market is segmented as follows:

By Manufacturing Technique

• Powder Bed
• Blown powder
• Others

By Material

• Alloys
• Stainless Steel
• Others

By Application

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Medical
• Oil & Gas
• Energy
• Others

Regional Coverage:

North America

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico
• Rest of North America

Europe

• Germany
• France
• U.K.
• Russia
• Italy
• Spain
• Netherlands
• Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

• China
• Japan
• India
• New Zealand
• Australia
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Rest of Asia Pacific

The Middle East & Africa

• Saudi Arabia
• UAE
• Egypt
• Kuwait
• South Africa
• Rest of the Middle East & Africa

Latin America

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Rest of Latin America