Market Outlook & Challenges
Seeing growing use among many industrial manufacturers for prototyping and model design, additive manufacturing is becoming, for many sectors, an essential technology. Despite this, further development will be needed to lower the costs of this technology and increasing the expertise needed to fully benefit from the infinite potential of this still lightly exploited technology. Additional challenges will be the ability for more sectors to adopt this technology into a fully scalable production model.
How can manufacturers use additive manufacturing to develop more personalized products?
Challenge
Across industries, manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver highly customized products while maintaining efficiency and scalability.
Impact
A lack of customizable materials can restrict innovation and reduce competitiveness in markets that demand personalization, such as medical and dental applications.
Solution principles
Additive manufacturing enables design flexibility and customization, supported by advanced materials and expertise that allow tailored properties, faster prototyping, and efficient production of application specific parts.
Sustainability & Compliance
Going Beyond Chemistry for Future Generations
By its very nature, additive manufacturing technology has the potential to improve the sustainability of a finished product through the efficient use of raw materials.
Evonik goes further in its RENITY™ vision, which focuses on three key pillars:
Sustainable energy sources
Alternative feedstocks
Materials recycling
Watch this video to learn more about Evonik’s efforts in sustainability and performance
