Market Status And Trend Analysis Of China'S 3D Printing Materials Industry Will Become The Two Major Materials In The Future

In recent years, China's 3D printing industry has developed rapidly, and the 3D printing materials as the upstream industry of the 3D printing industry has also risen rapidly. Unlike ordinary materials, 3D printing materials need to be prepared by using unique technologies to meet the special requirements of 3D printing products and 3D printing equipment.

The main 3D printing materials in the market include ABS plastic materials, PLA materials, rubber materials, metal powder materials, ceramic materials, and new composite gypsum powder, epoxy resin and wax materials in recent years.

In the field of application, due to the high quality requirements and customized requirements of industrial machinery, automobile manufacturing, aerospace and other fields, the downstream application fields of 3D printing materials in China are mainly concentrated in industrial machinery, automobile manufacturing, aerospace and other fields. In the first half of 2018, 3D printing materials were mainly used in industrial machinery, aerospace and automotive fields. The total proportion of the three components was more than 50%, of which 20% of the industrial applications accounted for 18.90%, and the proportion of aerospace applications accounted for 16%.

3D printing materials industry applications accounted for the statistics.

Source: Prospect Industry Research Institute

Because the downstream applications of 3D printing materials are mainly equipment manufacturing industry, the 3D printing materials used are mainly metal materials, including titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, stainless steel and other metal materials. The total metal materials account for more than 40%. In addition, the mainstream 3D printing materials such as engineering plastics ABS, nylon and PLA account for more than 10%.

2018 H1 China 3D printing material structure proportion statistics

Source: Prospect Industry Research Institute

Accelerated research on 3D printing materials will focus on plastics and metals in the future.

According to the statistical data released by the foresight Industry Research Institute, "China 3D printing material industry development prospect forecast and investment strategy planning report", from 2010-2017 years, the number of patent applications for 3D printing materials in China showed a trend of fluctuating growth.

In the 2009-2013 year, the number of patents for 3D printing materials has been developing steadily.

The outbreak began in 2014.

In 2017, 1048 items were reached, and the annual growth rate of five years in 2013-2017 years was 56.4%.

In 2018, the number of patent applications was 120, which declined after the outbreak period, but still higher than 112 in 2013.

Statistics on the number of patent applications for China's 3D printing materials in 2010-2018 years

Source: Prospect Industry Research Institute

Since the patent application to scale industrialization takes about 3 years or so, we can judge the development trend of the future 3D printing materials through nearly 3 years of patent application category. Through 2014-2018 years of China's 3D printing materials, we can see that the metal powder materials and plastic materials are the trend of the development of China's 3D printing materials. The total number of applications is more than 50%. Other kinds, such as polymer materials and cellulose materials, are mainly used in the field of electronic products manufacturing and medical device manufacturing. With the development of the electronic products industry and the medical device industry, the development prospects of the two 3D printing materials are also more optimistic.

2014-2018 years, China's 3D printing materials sub category structure accounted for statistics.

Source: Prospect Industry Research Institute