Data appendix
The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.
Contents
- ·Edition home
- ·Executive summary
- 1Additive manufacturing is production infrastructure that is still being qualified
- 2Key findings
- 3Systems and sectors at baseline
- 4Risks and capability
- 5Defence demand outruns part acceptance and supply
- 6Readings from the other desks
- 7The 2027 agenda
- 8Systems in depth
- AMethodology
- BData appendix
- CReferences and record
- ·Complete edition, for print
B.1The indicator set
| Indicator | Value | Unit | Year | State | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global additive manufacturing revenue | 21.9 | USD billion | 2024 | Reported | 1 |
| Growth in revenue | 9.1 | percent | 2024 | Reported | 1 |
| Decline in machine sales | 26 | percent | 2024 | Reported | 1 |
| Share of revenue from printing services | 47 | percent | 2024 | Reported | 1 |
| Global additive manufacturing revenue | 24.2 | USD billion | 2025 | Reported | 2 |
| Growth in revenue | 10.9 | percent | 2025 | Reported | 2 |
| Growth in printing services | 15.5 | percent | 2025 | Reported | 2 |
| Growth in machine sales | 3.6 | percent | 2025 | Reported | 2 |
| Growth in Asia-Pacific | 19.8 | percent | 2025 | Reported | 2 |
| Stratasys revenue | 551.1 | USD million | 2025 | Reported | 3 |
| 3D Systems revenue | 386.9 | USD million | 2025 | Reported | 4 |
| Navy additive parts installed | 20 | parts | 2026 | Reported | 7 |
| Navy lead-time cut for some components | 70 | percent, up to | 2026 | Reported | 7 |
| Specific energy, polymer laser sintering | 113.66 | MJ/kg | 2015 | Reported | 14 |
| AM-Bench 2025 challenge submissions | 85 | submissions | 2025 | Reported | 12 |
| Navy maritime industrial base workforce need | 250,000 | workers | 2025 | Reported | 8 |
B.2Global source register
The governed source set behind this edition. Each source keeps its authority, coverage, cadence and role; categories describe origin, not truth.
Domains bound by the register
- INF
- FIN
- GOV
- MIN
- ENE
- HLT
- TRD
- CLI
- DAT
- WAT
| Source | Category | Coverage | Period | Cadence | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trade summary of Wohlers Report 20251 | trade press | global | 2024 | annual | market size |
| Trade summary of Wohlers Report 20262 | trade press | global | 2025 | annual | market size and regions |
| Stratasys release3 | listed company | one company | 2025 | quarterly | results |
| 3D Systems release4 | listed company | one company | 2025 | quarterly | results |
| Nano Dimension filing5 | listed company | one company | 2025 | annual | consolidation |
| DVIDS release7 | US government | US Navy | 2026 | per event | parts counts |
| NIST AM-Bench12 | national standards body | method | 2025 | every three years | benchmarks |
| Baumers et al.14 | conference paper | method | 2015 | one-off | energy |
| NIOSH evaluation20 | US government via trade press | one facility | 2025 | per event | exposure |
| SIPRI paper21 | research institute | global | 2017 | one-off | controls |
B.3Regional reading, additive manufacturing across ten clusters
Regional plates follow with the regional editions. This page gives the regional reading of additive manufacturing production and exposure in table form and ranks no region.
| Region | Principal hazards | Systems most exposed | Baseline evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | defence demand; export controls; machine makers under strain | production, supply | Navy7; company results34 |
| South America | early industrial use | production | regional evidence (not bound) |
| Europe | revenue growth of 9% in 2025 | production, research | trade summary2 |
| Eurasia | defence and research programmes | research, supply | regional evidence (not bound) |
| Middle East and North Africa | early industrial use | production | regional evidence (not bound) |
| Africa | skills and access | workforce | regional evidence (not bound) |
| South Asia | national manufacturing programmes | production, skills | regional evidence (not bound) |
| East Asia | fastest regional growth; machine exports | production, supply | trade summary2 |
| ASEAN | fabrication partners | production, supply | regional evidence (not bound) |
| Oceania-Pacific | wire-arc and metal programmes for defence | production | company announcement9 |
B.4Cluster card: metal powder and qualified alloy supply chain
- supply chain
- metal powder
- part acceptance
- single point
- Systems in view
- powder producers, machine makers, part acceptance programmes, defence primes
- Defining events
- defence demand growth and the 2024 US machine control722
- Couplings
- MIN → INF powder; TRD → MIN controls
- Capability evidence
- supplier capacity announcements reported33
- Gaps
- powder volumes; reserves; qualified sources per alloy
- Agenda items
- M-03 · M-04
Production use needs powder qualified for each alloy and process, and volumes are not published [33].
SUPPLY
Qualified powder per alloy
The US Navy reports additive parts moving into production and cites strain on casting and forging [7].
DEMAND
Defence pull
Reported responses include supplier capacity expansions and part acceptance of processes rather than parts. None is documented at scale here [7] [33].
RESPONSE
Capacity and part acceptance
B.5How countries appear in the additive manufacturing edition
Countries enter the additive manufacturing edition through the readiness chapters of their own national editions, on one card grammar. They are read against peer distributions and thresholds, never ranked.
| Card field | What it shows | Source |
|---|---|---|
| WEFH+B state | each core system against peer distribution bands | national edition |
| Couplings | the national dependency matrix | national edition |
| Risk objects | the national risk portfolio | national edition |
| Capability rungs | the national capability ladder | national edition |
| Evidence age | oldest and newest source dates | national source register |
Editions in the 2026 Baseline programme
26national
countries and unions
10regional
clusters
16global
flagship and sector
20frontier
technology reports
How to read a country card
- Each system is shown against the distribution of its peers, with thresholds where they exist
- Couplings and risk objects come from the country’s own national edition
- Capability rungs record evidence, not a judgement of institutions
- Evidence age is printed, so older national data are visible as such
| Wave | Countries and unions | State |
|---|---|---|
| W0 | Canada | ISSUED |
| W1 | United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, European Union, Switzerland | PLANNED |
| W2 | Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Türkiye, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, African Union, India, China, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia | PLANNED |
B.6Licences
| Material | Licence |
|---|---|
| Text | CC BY 4.0 |
| Data | on the licence of each source; Nexus tables CC BY 4.0 |
| Figures | Nexus figures CC BY 4.0; third-party as credited |
| Maps | boundary source and licence printed on each plate |
| Metadata | CC0 1.0, as Zenodo publishes it |
| Third-party data, figures and text | The source’s own licence, credited where it is used; never relicensed |
| Nexus-authored text, tables and figures: CC BY 4.0 (SPDX CC-BY-4.0). Map plates print their boundary source and licence. | |
B.7Formats and provenance
| Format | Kind | State | What it is | Identifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web edition | HTML | On this site | Draft in stewardship review; every value resolves to its source. | NR-XTECH-MANUFACTURING-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0 |
| Print edition | At release | A4 portrait · screen, print and archival PDF, signed with the web edition at release. | NR-XTECH-MANUFACTURING-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0 | |
| Indicator data | CSV · JSON | On this site | 16 indicators with unit, year, status and source; the machine-readable copy ships with the evidence bundle at release. | NR-XTECH-MANUFACTURING-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE data release v1 |
| Figures | SVG · PNG | On this site | 4 on the web edition: headline figure, figure 1.3, coupling instrument, capability ladder. | FIG-XTECH-MANUFACTURING-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-* |
| Slides | Not recorded | No slide deck is recorded for this edition. | ||
| Evidence brief | HTML · PDF | Not recorded | No evidence brief is recorded for this edition. | |
| Dataset with DOI | DataCite | At release | Concept and version DOI are minted at deposit; none is recorded yet. |
Provenance
- Edition pack
- The edition’s content pack (JSON), from which the print and web editions are built
- Evidence cut
- DC-XTECH-MANUFACTURING-GLOBAL-2026-B0, closed 30 September 2026
- Reproducibility
- sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
- Self-check
- 14 of 23 at evidence close; a fail on any item blocks release
- Review
- five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
- Publisher of record
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium
- Corrections
- Registry correction pathway; upheld corrections are published as notices with a new version
Notes
Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references
- 1Voulpiotis, F. (3Dnatives), Wohlers Report 2025: 9.1% growth for the global additive manufacturing market (trade article, 14 April 2025; weak evidence: a trade summary of a commercial report; reports 2024 market about USD 21.9 billion, machine sales down about 26%, services 47% of revenue). 3Dnatives, Paris. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 2Voulpiotis, F. (3Dnatives), Wohlers Report 2026: growth continues, but caution defines the AM market (trade article, 17 February 2026; weak evidence: a trade summary of a commercial report; reports 2025 revenue USD 24.231 billion, up 10.9%, services up 15.5% with 48% share, machine sales up 3.6%, Asia-Pacific up 19.8%, Europe and the Americas up 9%). 3Dnatives, Paris. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 3Stratasys Ltd. (ed.), Stratasys releases fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results (company release, 5 March 2026; revenue USD 551.1 million against USD 572.5 million in 2024; GAAP net loss USD 104.3 million). Stratasys, Rehovot and Eden Prairie. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 43D Systems Corporation (ed.), 3D Systems reports fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results (company release, 9 March 2026; revenue USD 386.9 million, down 12%; Healthcare Solutions USD 179.6 million; Industrial Solutions USD 207.3 million). 3D Systems, Rock Hill. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 7Jones, M. (NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support), Shattering bottlenecks: NAVSUP WSS partners with DLA and NAVSEA on submarine advanced manufacturing (official release via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, 30 June 2026; nearly 120 additive parts in development, 20 installed, more than 1,400 cumulative days of delay removed, lead times cut by up to 70% for some components; not independently audited). US Navy, Mechanicsburg. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 14Baumers, M., Tuck, C. and Hague, R., Selective heat sintering versus laser sintering: comparison of deposition rate, process energy consumption and cost performance, Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium proceedings, University of Texas at Austin (full text read; the year is inferred from the cited 2015 sources). Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 12NIST (ed.), AM-Bench (program page; 2025 benchmarks 8 metal and 1 polymer sets; 85 challenge submissions; conference November 2025; AM Bench 2028 in planning). National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 8Maritime Industrial Base Program (ed.), Maritime Industrial Base Program highlights workforce mission at Virginia Tech (official release via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, event 18 September 2025; need for 250,000 skilled workers over a decade; Columbia-class and Virginia-class output goals for 2028). US Navy, Washington. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 5Nano Dimension Ltd. (ed.), Annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (first 100,000 characters read; Desktop Metal Chapter 11 filing on 28 July 2025; Markforged acquisition closed 25 April 2025; revenue tables not read). Nano Dimension, Waltham. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 20American Industrial Hygiene Association (ed.), NIOSH evaluates metals exposures at manufacturing facility (news item, 11 September 2025, on a NIOSH health hazard evaluation dated February 2025 with visits in March and May 2023; secondary summary, the evaluation itself was not opened). AIHA, Falls Church. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 21Brockmann, K. and Bauer, S., 3D printing and missile technology controls, SIPRI Background Paper, November 2017 (summary page read; machines, feedstock and digital build files). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm. Observation year 2017. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 9AML3D Limited (ed.), AML3D signs initial production parts order for US Navy submarines (ASX release, 17 September 2026; about AU$0.5 million; three copper-nickel components; 16 systems deployed; company forecast of up to 100 systems and 1,600 components by 2030 attributed to Navy forecasts; vendor announcement, weak evidence). AML3D, Adelaide. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 223DPrint.com (ed.), US Department of Commerce issues new export controls on metal additive manufacturing (trade article, 18 September 2024; interim final rule; ECCN 2B910; comments due 5 November 2024; author analysis on scope; secondary source, weak evidence). 3DPrint.com, Chicago. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
- 33UNVERIFIED, not opened: Continuum Powders (ed.), blog on powder supply bottlenecks for advanced manufacturing, October 2025, taken from a search summary; supplier commentary, weak evidence. Continuum Powders, Houston. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back