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Chinese 3D printing companies you’ll need to know in 2022

Obtaining information and interacting with Chinese 3D printing companies is no easy task. The way we do business and the way we communicate in most Western countries are often so different and the language barrier does not help. However, that is also what makes Chinese 3D printing companies so interesting and fascinating. Over the past five years, China went from a very marginal presence in the AM industry to a leading nation, with dozens of companies producing (and increasingly exporting) hardware systems and hundreds of companies using AM for prototyping, tooling and actual final parts production all over China.Get more news about china sls 3d printer,you can vist our website!

A common stereotype is that Chinese 3D printing companies don’t innovate, rather they take existing technologies and make them available at lower costs through economies of scale. Apart from the fact that this would already be quite an achievement in 3D printing in and of itself, it is far from being the entire story. In fact, Chinese 3D printing companies continue to improve on technologies and register new patents, leveraging often unique know-how in materials, robotics, mechanics and engineering. Perhaps more importantly, they also use them a lot. We often joke around that, in AM, Europeans tend to highlight everything that is not yet working to perfection; Americans tend to highlight the fact that everything is working to perfection while Chinese don’t highlight anything and just put the technology to work.

The Chinese presence in today’s AM market spans multiple segments. One is the entry-level 3D printer segment, where Chinese companies have been able to now offer ultra-affordable systems for both filament extrusion and LED photopolymerization, with the added benefit for the entire global AM industry of enabling an unprecedented number of people to enter the world of 3D printing. The next level is production capabilities: there are now service facilities in China that house more than 100 industrial machines, either SLA (laser stereolithography) or SLM (L-PBF) and do serious parts production for the domestic market. Then there are those Chinese 3D printing companies that have begun to build their presence abroad, offering increasingly competitive machines. Let’s take a look at some of the most important ones.
Dominating the desktop
Where is China dominating in the AM industry? Desktop 3D printers are certainly a big part of it. Not so long ago, our friends at Nanji Xiong, China’s leading 3D printing news website, organized a conference with leading Chinese 3D printing market operators and reported that as much as 70% of the desktop 3D printing market is now controlled by Chinese manufacturers. Who are they? Let’s take a look.

1 – Creality 3D
With the ultra-successful Ender series of 3D printers, Creality became the leading manufacturer of entry-level filament extrusion systems worldwide. Founded in 2014, the company grew rapidly from a four people workshop to over 550 employees. Besides extrusion systems, Creality also markets DLP/SLA light curing printers, 3D scanners, 3D viewers and 3D printing filaments. In 2021, Creality also launched the ambitious Creality 3DPrintMill(CR-30)project together with celebrity maker Naomi Wu, an infinite-Z volume 3D printer building on the work of Karl Brown and Bill Steele.
2 – AnyCubic
Founded in 2015, Shenzhen-based Anycubic is one of the most credible competitors for entry-level market dominance, with a team that has now grown to over 300 employees. Unlike Creality, Anycubic owes its popularity to the price and quality of its Photon LED stereolithography line of resin 3D printers, which truly made high-resolution printing accessible to everyone. Like Creality, Anycubic also manufacturers and markets other types of products, including the Vyper line of filament extrusion systems. Not content, the company also ventured in the more advanced DLP segment, with the recent launch of the Anycubic Photon Ultra.
3 – FlashForge
20+ Chinese 3D printing companies you'll need to know in 2022: a virtual journey on the new 3D printed silk road to ChinaWith its first Creator and Dreamer printers dating back to 2011, FlashForge is one of the “founding fathers” of Chinese 3D printing and of desktop 3D printing in general. The company’s core systems are positioned in a generally higher tier compared to both Creality and Anycubic, with professional-level machines (both extrusion and photopolymerization) costing in the order of a few to several thousand (FlashForge now even offers a material jetting system for the production of wax patterns) and the lowest-priced, consumer-targeted systems costing a few hundred. Recently FlashForge also ventured in the ultra-low-cost segment with the new Voxelab sub-brand.