The category listing all major 3D printing hardware manufacturers / AM hardware manufacturers is one of the largest in the VoxelMatters Directory.

Therefore it includes all companies that produce and sell additive manufacturing hardware around the world, ranging from desktop, low cost systems to high-end, production capable systems. It also includes third party 3D printer component suppliers (nozzles, plates, parts, lasers and more).

The 3D printer manufacturer category includes over on thousand AM hardware manufacturers from all over the world. They are further categorized according to the specific applications their technologies are used for.

General areas include metal additive manufacturing, ceramics additive manufacturing, (cement-based) construction, food 3D printing and integrated electronics.

In addition, a specific category highlights high speed 3D printer manufacturers. These include planar technologies such as high-speed DLP photopolymerization and thermal polymer powder bed fusion.

In conclusion, the Hardware by Technology subsection lists all major 3D printer manufacturers categories by the specific 3D printing technology their systems implement.

Most noteworthy major families include:

• Metal 3D printing, including laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), electron beam powder bed fusion (EBM), metal binder jetting (MBJ or JET), bound metal printing (BMP or BND)
• Material Extrusion (MEX), including Filament Extrusion (FDM/FFF, desktop and industrial), Large Format AM (LFAM) and paste extrusion/deposition
• Vat photopolymerization (VPP), including laser stereolithography (SLA) and digital light projection (DLP) stereolithography, which is split into conventional DLP, LCD/LED-DLP and high-speed DLP. Also including 2PP and micro SLA processes.
• Polymer Powder Bed Fusion, including laser based SLS and thermal based processes such as MultiJet Fusion (MJF), High Speed Sintering (HSS) and Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF).
• Non-metal Binder Jetting including sand binder jetting and ceramic binder jetting
• Material Jetting.