3D printing applications accelerate the expansion of the advantages of metal powder materials

China Coatings Online News:
2016 China Kunshan 3D printing technology and equipment exhibition will be held on September 7 at the Kunshan Huaqiao International Expo Center. The exhibition products include 3D printer equipment, 3D printing material accessories and technology and other fields. During the same period will also hold heavyweight summits, new technology launches, docking and other series of activities to further promote the rapid development of China's 3D printing industry.3D printing industry reached $5,165 million last year, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 30%, according to the company. The agency expects the global 3D printing market to grow rapidly, reaching more than $11 billion by 2018. Last year, China's 3D printing market reached 7.8 billion yuan, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 70%. It is expected that by 2018, China's 3D printing market size will exceed 20 billion yuan.industry chain, 3D printing mainly includes printing equipment, printing materials and services, with a market share of 39%, 37% and 24%, respectively. Compared with foreign countries, China's 3D printing industry market is small, the development of the industrial chain lags behind, most enterprises mainly concentrated in the production of 3D printer equipment, and printing raw materials, image processing and downstream market application links are weak. At present, China's high-end 3D printing raw materials are still dependent on imports, the future has a larger space for import substitution.3D printers can be divided into consumer and industrial grades. Among them, consumer-grade 3D printers mainly face consumer-oriented, entertainment-oriented and product accuracy requirements are not high products; Industrial-grade 3D printers mainly face high quality accuracy requirements of aerospace, medical equipment, automotive, mold development and other downstream markets. Data show that in recent years, the global 3D printing downstream industry applications, the automotive industry accounted for a relatively large scale of applications, reaching about 30%; This was followed by the consumer goods sector, which accounted for 20 per cent.automotive industry was one of the first to use 3D printing technology. 3D printing from the original use of conceptual model printing, to the production of functional models, is gradually being applied to the manufacture of functional components, and even the manufacture of automotive vehicles. 3D printing technology can completely get rid of the tedious process of making molds, greatly shortening the development cycle of automotive components. With the rapid improvement of China's automobile production and sales and technological innovation, 3D printing in the automotive industry has a broad application prospects. Global 3D printing reached $480 million in the automotive industry last year, and the agency expects the market to reach $1.5 billion by 2020.current 3D printing materials are mainly photosensitive resin, ABS plastic and other raw materials, but also can use aluminum powder, titanium powder and other metal powders, as well as alumina, carbon fiber and other ceramic powders as raw materials for printing. Among them, the purity, particle size, uniformity, spondification, oxygen content and other indicators of metal materials have a great impact on the performance of printing products. At present, the metal powder materials used mainly include titanium alloy, cobalt chromium alloy, stainless steel and aluminum alloy. Due to high technical barriers to metal powder materials and production difficulties leading to insufficient market output, technology companies committed to the research, production and marketing of aluminum alloy materials, metal composites and aluminum alloy non-composite materials are expected to benefit first.
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