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Say Goodbye to “Made in China” This transformative technology holds the potential to completely revolutionize manufacturing – and perhaps even take China down in the process.
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Say Goodbye to “Made in China”This transformative technology holds the potential to completely revolutionize manufacturing – and perhaps even take China down in the process.

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It Seems Like Every Decade…A technology comes along and

fundamentally changes the world • The 1980s: The PC made its way into households.

• The 1990s: The Internet became all the rage.

• The 2000s: The early days of the smartphone revolution began.

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2014: The Next Technology Revolution

3-D Printing• 3-D printing generated only $3 billion in

revenues worldwide in 2013

• Many believe the 3-D printing industry will grow by orders of magnitude in the future.

• There’s still a tremendous investment opportunity for growth.

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What Is 3-D Printing?Also known as “additive manufacturing”

• Objects are built layer by layer.

• Differs from traditional manufacturing, which often starts with a solid block of material that’s shaved

down into its final form.

• Objects can be 3-D printed in a range of materials, including plastic, glass, sand, composite, and metal.

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What Makes 3-D Printing So Great?The benefits can be profound for manufacturers• Faster product development times

• No tooling required

• Nearly unlimited complexity

• Potential to make fundamentally better products over conventional manufacturing methods

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Organizations Are Taking Notice

General Electric, Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Ford, Nike, Victoria’s

Secret, and even the U.S. Air Force have adopted 3-D printing.

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Case Study: General Electric3-D printing jet engine fuel nozzles

• GE plans to 3-D metal print 45,000 fuel nozzles a year for its upcoming Leap jet engine. An industry first!

• GE can consolidate a conventionally manufactured fuel nozzle from 20 parts into one 3-D printed part.

• The benefits are so significant that GE wants 3-D printing to “touch” 50% of its products in 20 years in some way, whether it’s the product itself, the tools to make the product, or early iterations of the product.

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Case Study: General Electric (cont’d)• GE will likely have to invest billions to grow its 3-D printing

and advanced manufacturing capacity to support 50% of its products being “touched” by 3-D printing in next 20 years.

• If other manufacturers follow suit, it could lead to significant 3-D printing spending in the future.

• Continued worldwide adoption of 3-D printing could promote a resurgence in localized manufacturing and cut China’s manufacturing base out of the equation.

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Nearing a Tipping Point?Growth rates have accelerated

25-year average: 27% per year, compoundedLast three years: 32.3% per year, compounded

What this means:3-D printing technology could be hitting an

inflection point in terms of adoption.

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Tremendous Untapped Potential

“[3-D printing] continues to offer tremendous untapped potential, especially in custom and short-run part production”

- Wohlers Associates, a leading 3-D printing insights firm.

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Tremendous Untapped Potential

• In 2013, 3-D printing generated just north of $3 billion in worldwide revenues.

• If 3-D printing can grow to represent just 1% of the $10.5 trillion worldwide manufacturing base, it would become a $105 billion a year industry!

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The Early Innings

It’s not too late to invest in 3-D printing stocks!


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