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After years of buildup, we’re finally starting to see what the US metal additive manufacturing (AM) market could look like at scale. To be sure, it’s still not quite there, outside certain pockets of robust growth. But the groundwork has been laid, and features of a mature market are gradually starting to emerge.
One takeaway is that OEMs should kindly move off center stage and let the services and materials markets have their time in the sun. Along those lines, AM Research’s Scott Dunham has been writing about how he’s revamped his approach to the services market (this is relevant to a new services report which is available now — ahead of its publication at the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027 — at a discounted price).
The changes going on in the materials market, with metals in particu