China Races For World Dominance In 3D Printing Market

Engineers in China are now using 3D printing technology to create a myriad of different objects, including houses, fully working cars, and bus stops (see image above).

It's alleged that China will eventually achieve world dominance in this area. And hey're now leading the race when it comes to funneling this technology into a variety of industries.

In 2016, it's estimated that institutions in China together spent more than $1 billion on 3D printing projects.

And it's expected that by 2023 that the 3D printing market will be worth more than $32 billion.

3D printing technology provides incredible design and architecture potential. In the clip above, you can see a concrete 3D printer at work, which one man used to print his own castle. There have been various looks to the homes and cars that have thus far been printed using 3D printing technology.

For the design and architecture industry specifically, this is just one more industry that's expected to see some drastic changes, as this this technology continually becomes more frequently used.

In some instances it's taken only a few hours for an entire 3D-printed home to be created.

Because of the tremendous potential that this technology could provide the design and architecture market space, as well as many other commercial spaces, it's been credited with helping to spark the 3rd industrial revolution.

And some suspect that it could have a great impact on manufacturing, soon becoming the most prevalent method of manufacturing around the world.

At the moment, China is home to the world's largest printed architectural object, it's a pavilion that's referred to as the Vulcan (seen above). The pavilion was printed in several pieces and then assembled later on.

For printers to be able to print entire structures like cars and houses, the printer itself obviously would need to be very large, unless it was printing the object in several pieces.

For this reason, it's been difficult to scale and that's why some still see 3D printing as being in the infancy stages; despite the amazing progress that's been made in recent years in this area.

The global 3D printing market is already estimated to have surpassed $5 billion, with more than 200,000 desktop 3D printers being sold during 2016. Industry analysts suggest that there is still healthy growth to be seen in the 3D printer industry; this market segment has plenty of room left to expand.

Pics:
VCG/VCG via Getty Images via Forbes
via urdesignmag
via rebrn

Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/02/01/china-lays-groundwork-for-asian-world-lead-in-3d-printing/#49bbd0f17f54
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