Marketing the 3-D Printing Food Process?

Marketing The 3-D Printing Food Process?

As 3-D printing takes it's first steps in the marketing industry, it's market statistics in constant growth and inspiring many new technologies, people are starting to catch on to the trend, as it may reshape living on Earth, from foods to mechanical products.

As the market statistics progress, you might see more printers coming around offering various new technologies in prototyping. After all, these prices for 3-D printing material are slowly going down, down, down, while advancements in technology will keep rapidly growing as seen below.

But how much of that graph is food technology?

With traditional farming becoming old, outdated and not easily accessible to some parts of the world such as lands where there are lots of drought, and tundra as well, many strategies are being used to get foods to different parts of the world, but my tomatoes aren't just right when they're thrown into a truck to be sent 2000 miles away and come to my local supermarket overripe, instead of fresh tomatoes from Nonna's backyard which are just right.

The problem with that is that we can't get them year- round, but what if 3-D printed food with the same nutritional content and taste which can be mass-produced using the right technology can solve that problem. That is what my genius hour is about. Not random stuff all slapped together.

Now here are the facts that I have deciphered from the limited amount of info the internet can give me.

• The public hasn't paid much attention to the food printing process but since 3-D printed technology is on the rise and the public is seeing how it works, without a doubt, they will probably catch on to 3-D printing food as a new way to ensure no one goes hungry when weather does't permit the right growth. This ties in with the fact that global warming is a huge threat around the world.
• Traditional farming will probably come to an end, replaced by new growth methods and 3-D printing as well. For more details, I'd recommend the October 2015 issue of Popular Science, the topic being called "The Future of Food".
• 3-D printed food isn't only going to be for the elderly with dysphagia as discussed in my last post. This may become a worldwide topic, so stay tuned.

Yeah it's real and coming to a store or something like that near you! Ciao guys, have a nice day and all that jazz. I'm out.

Lets get back down to business, Shall we?

Let's Get Back Down To Business

Okay, guys I'm back after a hiatus of more than a month. Hope all of you had a great march break. I surely did.Anyways, it's back to the drawing board this month as the time is winding down before my grade 6 class and I have to present TED talks at the end of June. Until then, we have another two months of collecting research, so enjoy.

These next few blogs will be about STATISTICS of not just of 3-D printed food distribution, but their market statistics and values, helping me learn about how much 3-D printed food has helped world famine issues worldwide (yay), and the price of production (boo).

An estimation from the source of statista.com estimates the industry could be worth an estimated 10.8 BILLION DOLLARS by 2021. WOW THAT'S A LOT OF FULL POCKETS........... 

Alright, back to the point, I have to figure out how much of that is food. That's my task.

As of now, prototyping is the dominant reason of why 3-D printing is rising in market statistics, it's dominance in statistics showing itself in the pie graph above. These prototypes take many forms such as artificial limbs and another form is food as we know it. With ever-decreasing prices in 3-D printing software, the possibilities for 3-D printing have been dramatically increased since their debut in the market in the 1970's to the 1980's. These new stats are very good for creating newer, efficient resources using 3-D printers.

According to 3dprinting.com, the two dominant fields of food where rapid prototyping play a huge role are 

• Food prototyping and production and
• Food and beverage packaging prototypes.

So, in review, the 3-D food printing industry is still taking it's first steps as of now, but we are looking forward to seeing it grow over the next few years and create and better resources for the world, to possibly solve world famine problems.Well, at least I am.

Next blog is April 29th and so is my VLog. Until then, goodbye for now.