MT Magazine March/April 2023

MT MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

MARCH/APRIL 2023

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Investment Trends in Additive Manufacturing: Shifting Focus Application investments flourish while next-generation technology developers

take on the future. BY DAYTON HORVATH DIRECTOR, EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

The additive manufacturing industry experienced the same screeching halt felt by the rest of the world in 2020, only to accelerate to a 2021 high and straight into increasing uncertainty in 2022. Despite this uncertainty and recessionary expectations in the United States, additive manufacturing continues to show outsized financing activity given the industry’s relatively modest market size, often quoted to be between $15 billion and $20 billion globally. Tracking this