In 2018, I have just passed a quarter of the past, and the two US desktop 3D print vendors have stopped operations New Matter and Typea Machines, and we have reported. Through this incident, let's talk about 3D printing enterprises who have experienced the crisis to see the status of the current 3D print market.
The higher the higher, the more it hurts.
As early as the 1980s, the improvement method of adding materials appeared in the United States. It is different from the method of manufacturing of the car milling grinding pliers, and now has more than 30 years.
In 2012 and 2013, the United States "Times" and "Economist" magazine have highly evaluated additive manufacturing technology, called "3D printing", and this technology began to enter the public vision. "Economist" is the power of 3D printing technology as the third industrial revolution.
At first, the additive manufacturing technology was only limited to scientific research and new business model, and 2009 Professor Adrian University, Bath University, England, developed the REPRAP series desktop 3D printer, evolved "open source hardware, every family around the world It can be manufactured with parts ", and the threeD prints have cultivated soil in the popularity of 3D printing.
The conditions are mature, the media speculation, the mystery and technology, 2012 to 2013 3D printing technology became a scientific full star, head topic ring.
In the domestic wave wave lag two years, in 2014 to 2015 3D printing technology hot, 3D printing entrepreneurial enterprises such as spring bamboo shoots; once laser, materials, manufacturing listed companies also take a wave of windmills, 3D printing Concept playing gave birth to water.
At the same time, from 2014, 3D printing heat starts to cool down in the international range, 3D printing enterprises first experience the winter, "Winter Has Come".
US stocks 3D printing plate stocks plummeted, one year of time stock price is generally lumbar, even falling 70%. At the US, the two 3D printing industries, both of the two 3D printing industries, have a crisis, experienced severe moments.
↑↑↑ 2014 Stratasys stock price turning point
Big companies can still be partially split business, acquisition, and hold high-profit markets to retreat. More small businesses have not been supported from spring, and they have been discounted.
Winter has arrived until death notes
Makerbot experienced lawsuits and business reorganizations in 2015. Originally, in 2013, it was acquired by Stratasys by 400 million US dollars. Makerbot not only took the industry's big man, but also stars the flag of Stratasys consumer 3D printing market.
From 2012 to 2014, Makerbot sales increased by more than 600%. Rapid sales and market expansion brought hidden dangers to product quality, leading to flagship models, due to print head quality problems, bring high after-sales costs; and subjected to shareholders due to this issue to shareholders Collective litigation.
Makerbot's strategy is to introduce Stratasys's product control system, launch new printhead components; shrink business, layoffs, shutdown stores and restructuring, holding education and design markets. This spent the crisis.
3D SYSTEMS is the problem of sales of desktop 3D printers. The "3D printing life" concept created at CES exhibitions is not impressed by consumers. People don't understand what to spend thousands of dollars to buy 3D printers.
At the end of 2015, 3D Systems finally made decisions for discontinued desktop CUBE series 3D printers.
Stratasys and 3D SYSTEMS is originally a business, industrial grade 3D print solution, and involved in the consumption 3D printing market. And many entrepreneurial 3D print companies are not so lucky.
At the beginning of 2016, RePrap Pro announced the cessation of the operation, withdraws from the 3D printing market; the starter of the desktop 3D printing open source project Adrian. Bowel is one of its joint founders. In March of the same year, Solidoodle announced the cessation of business, because of the operation of not good and funding.
↑↑↑ Reprap's code base on GitHub starts from 2016 without any updates
Almost at the same time, the 3D model community Pinshape announces the stop operations due to funding issues. Although the popularity is quite high, 3D model sharing how to achieve manager still plagued Pinshape. However, the desktop 3D printing vendor Formlabs extended out of the olive branch, and Pinshape was all purchased, it was only dead.
In 2018, two desktop 3D printing vendors were bankrupt, the US Typea Machines and New Matter announced that the operation was stopped, and the reason was exactly the same - the incomplete funds, the operation is difficult to continue.
And the desktop FDM 3D printers in North America are well-known, and the NEW MATTER model MOD-T is more important to break through the GUICKSTARTER. However, the fate of the ultimately can't escape the bankrupt is an identical reason - sleepy for the money.
↑ ↑ ↑ Typea Machines official website stop operation announcement
3D printing manufacturers are facing this problem: How do you make money? How to achieve business value? At present, the desktop 3D printer walks into thousands of households. It is already a paradox, and thousands of yuan 3D printers are used to print plastic parts, and they cannot cause consumers' interest.
Intronising, desktop 3D printers are also created, models, diy, designing this small circle tool. Its market is small, not enough to support so many business survival.
M & A integrated jungle law
We may wish to see another aspect, and who is alive in the 3D print industry. Makergear, Ultimaker, Zortrax, Zhejiang Flash, Hongrui, Form, of course also included Makerbot. Makergear is very popular among the North American Church, and the player is keen on DIY accessories to transform its 3D printer. Ultimaker has a relatively high market share in Europe.
They have a common point in one to two subdivided industries, with a good reputation, with a group of faithful users, and have certain research and development strength, belongs to "sulking big fortune". Currently, see the desktop 3D printing market, this is an ideal situation.
However, business operators always have to focus on the future, so 3D print manufacturers are also facing transformation, how to enter a larger market. What is a larger market? Of course, 3D print technology is commercial grade, industrial grade application.
Third-party market research institutions given the 2017 global 3D print market, we find two data, which are $ 7.8 billion and Mordor Intelligen's $ 8.3 billion, and growth rates in double-digit growth, respectively. growing up. Commercial grade, industrial grade 3D printing outscape is a big.
However, the mall is like the battlefield, GE Additive, Siemens has joined the market to compete, more Carbon 3D, XJET, Desktop Metal these start-ups joined. Merger integration will be inevitable, strong, the future 3D printing market may be the world of five to eight suppliers.
Locate your eyes, what time is the current global 3D printing market? Digital printing has a similar property and development process, and in the 2D print field, digital printing is also challenging with digital files out of print and flexible customization characteristics.
According to the data of third-party research institutions, the global printed market in 2017 was 785 billion yuan, while the digital printing market has reached 187.7 billion yuan, accounting for 23.9% of the entire printed market. In contrast, the 3D printing market accounts for only 0.07% of the global manufacturing industry, still in its infancy, and has huge development potential.
Therefore, the 3D print market is far from us to its prosperity, which is also the reason for the traditional industry giants such as GE, Siemens and HP. The victory on the battlefield has been stepped on the body of the opponent. The business also follows the jungle rule, bankrupt, restructuring, and acquisition with the mature general meeting of the market.
Original address: https://www.eeboard.com/news/3D-28/
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