A March 2013 report from Smart Tech Publishing predicts that the Precious metal 3D market could grow to more than four billion dollars in less than 10 years.  The forecast involved data from leading companies directly involved in the metal printing segment including Argen, Asiga, Autodesk, 3D Systems, Concept Laser, Cooksongold, DWS, EnvisionTec, EOS, Hilderbrand, Legor, Materialise, Optomec, Progold, Realizer, Shapeways, Sculpteo, Solidscape, Tanaka Precious Metals, Voxel8, and Xerox.