2025playersQ1 · 2025

Asia-Pacific, especially China, becomes increasingly important in industrial AM equipment, materials, and adoption momentum.

China's domestic AM machine base (Farsoon, BLT, Bambu Lab, HBD) is scaling rapidly and beginning to export globally. This creates competitive pressure on Western OEMs and suggests the AM supply chain will become more geographically diversified over the next decade.

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01Wohlers Associates (ASTM) — Wohlers Report 2025 shows 9.1% AM industry growth2025-04-11
Wohlers Report 2025 attributes most of 2024's 9.1% global AM growth to Asia, and China in particular, supporting the claim that Asia-Pacific/China weight in industrial AM is increasing. Equipment- and materials-share detail beyond that attribution is not in the public summary.

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AM Roadmap. (2025). Asia-Pacific, especially China, becomes increasingly important in industrial AM equipment, materials, and adoption momentum.. AM Roadmap (v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed). Retrieved 2026-08-24, from https://amroadmap.com/timeline/present-2025-competition-9

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@misc{amroadmap_asia_pacific_especially_china_becomes_in_2025,
  title  = {Asia-Pacific, especially China, becomes increasingly important in industrial AM equipment, materials, and adoption momentum.},
  author = {{AM Roadmap}},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://amroadmap.com/timeline/present-2025-competition-9},
  note   = {AM Roadmap dataset v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed, accessed 2026-08-24}
}

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