Long-form data
Analyses that slice AMPulse’s accumulated data across geography, era, technology, application, and capital.
14 reports3 statistics pagesBy Sangmin Lee
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Thirty findings from company, funding, patent, news and equipment records, compared country by country.
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Japan and Korea get filed together as the quiet Asian pair, and Japan as the laggard of the two. Counted whole, in AMPulse's census, they are two conversions from different industries: the Japanese patent estate sits inside heavy industry and materials houses founded before the process existed, the Korean one inside dental implant makers and a bioprinting cohort founded after it.
Recorded closure and acquisition shares differ by current target-market label within the 2012-2014 cohort. A descriptive comparison of business models and outcomes.
The AM funding pullback since 2022 is told as one industry-wide winter. Counted inside a single instrument, the winter has a geography: Germany's equity count falls 40% and its supply-side count halves, US equity events fall 39%, and 2025 is China's record year.
Germany's AM census is anchored by companies that predate the industry itself, converts by construction. Three-quarters of China's was founded after 2010. Catching up is a race on one road; this data shows two.
Institutional investment in metal AM is concentrating at welding scale: naval sustainment orders, a nuclear reference case, and welding incumbents entering wire DED. Four months of AMPulse signal data, read with their limits.
Free PDFA visitor-first map of 305 confirmed exhibitors from the 320+ expected at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026, grouped by value-chain role.
Carried by Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026 as featured third-party analysis in the show's press and media resources.
In Q2 2026, defense overtook aerospace as AMPulse's largest named AM end market by news coverage. The deeper shift was from qualification awards into capacity and deployable production systems.
100 companies defining Asia’s additive manufacturing decade, selected from 1,319 active Asian AM firms across 12 countries.
Disclosed primary funding in the tracked US and China AM ecosystems, 2023-2026. Similar Tier B totals, different source mixes, and material sensitivity to cohort scope and disclosure.
Service, polymer and education gave up share of new AM company formation between the 2010s and the 2020s; application, metal and aerospace/defense took it. The aerospace/defense move survives a strict supplier-only count.
The UK and India show the same formation count, but different AM logic: service capacity in one cohort, sovereign program infrastructure in the other.
AMPulse tracks 3,689 AM-relevant patent document records dated in 2025. Their filing clocks usually started much earlier.
A count of 604 capital events shows an industry shaped by several different capital systems. The mix matters more than one aggregate total.