Expert's Opinion

Growth in Functional, Industrial Print Markets Demonstrates Potential for Printers and Suppliers

A new report from Smithers Pira, The Future of Functional and Industrial Print to 2020, examines the rapidly emerging use of printing-for-profit in novel areas outside the traditional graphics and packaging arenas. This wide range of applications in professional 3D printing, printed electronics, biomedical and more are driving market growth, in a collective industry quantified by Smithers Pira as being worth $67 billion in 2015 – and reaching more than $107 billion in 2020. Printing technolog...

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