I found yet another absurd 3D printing market report, and this time I am comparing two sets of truly ridiculous results.
Readers may recall I ran across a market analysis report the other week purporting to forecast the “3D Food Printers Industry”. That’s immediately suspicious because there really isn’t such an industry. Food 3D printing is only experiments and very small scale operations.
The report was even more absurd because it explicitly listed a series of companies allegedly marketing 3D food printers, but most of them were defunct, abandoned the product or were never involved in food printing. It was all made up.
Now I have encountered a second report on the 3D food printing industry, this time from “DataM Intelligence”. I’ve never heard of them.
Like the previous report from “Fact.MR”, the DataM Intelligence report lists a series of companies with precise market shares of this non-existent market. There are few similarities between the lists of the two companies.
This is DataM Intelligence’s list, with my comments:
- 3D Systems – Does not market ANY food printers, but exhibited some experimental systems a decade ago
- Barilla – Makes pasta and evidently makes use of some 3D print tech in their production processes
- Candyfab – Experimental startup from 15 years ago
Natural Machines – Launched the Foodini printer ten years ago, never got traction - The Sugar Lab – Was acquired and abandoned by 3D Systems 15 years ago, then operated by the founders
- TNO – Is an innovation institution in the Netherlands, not a commercial company with products
- Wiiboox – Launched the “Sweetin” chocolate printer some years ago, did not catch on.
- Zmorph – Long ago marketed a three-in-one 3D printer that had a paste extruder toolhead that potentially could print food, but never caught on.
- 3Desserts Graphiques – Small French company that appears defunct.
- Aniwaa Pte. Ltd. – Was a comprehensive 3D printer online database, no longer updated.
Between the two made-up company lists, there are only three matches: 3D Systems, Natural Machines and TNO — which isn’t even a 3D printer company.
Clearly these analyst reports are simply fabricated data based on web searches that return ancient data that is no longer relevant. I was particularly amused by the inclusion of Aniwaa, which didn’t even make 3D printers.
In a way reports like this disturb the flow of true information about 3D printing. They are clearly not vetted in any way, and their presence could confuse the situation by providing incorrect information to future AI scrapers.
Meanwhile, I am hoping to test Aniwaa’s latest hamburger 3D printer.
Via OpenPR
