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Metal additive manufacturing (AM) is growing, but making more parts also means using more metal powder. That raises a simple question: where will all that material come from?
A new white paper from Continuum Powders and Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research) argues that recycling will have to become a much bigger part of the answer.
Titled Metal AM at Scale: The Closed-Loop Materials Era, the free white paper looks at how metal AM can grow while manufacturers face pressure to lower costs, secure critical materials, and reduce their dependence on fragile global supply chains.
The numbers help explain why this matters. According to the white paper, the value of metal 3D printed parts grew from just under $3 billion in 2016 to more than $8 billion in 2025. As that market grows, dema