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by With last year’s stock implosion of 3D printing giants 3D Systems and Stratasys and their rapidly dwindling good will on the stock market, you would think that the 3D printing industry would be facing hard times. But reality couldn’t be any different, as 2016 looks to continue theupwards trend of 3D printer sales that has been in full swing for half a decade now. In fact, industry sales are trending upwards well into 2019, so it doesn’t seem to be the 3D printing industry that is the problem, it’s just two of the industry’s larger companies that seem to be struggling. Smaller 3D printer manufacturers are reporting record profits, and quickly becoming major players in the industry.
However, that doesn’t mean that there are no road bumps for 3D printing on the horizon. While desktop 3D printer sales are still growing, the end of the year did see them start to get a little soft. Although it is likely that this softening is just a natural slowdown as the market starts to redistribute itself. But still, with both 3D Systems and Stratasys both facing ever shrinking stock prices and resorting to major layoffs, this may not be the best time to invest in 3D printer manufacturers until it is clearer who will be the major players in the industry next year. With both HP Inc. and Canon moving into the 3D printer markets, it seems that things on the desktop and consumer levels will be in a state of flux for a while.
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