CNPC Powder
CNPC Powder China produces metal powders for additive manufacturing, including powders for powder-bed fusion, directed-energy deposition, binder jetting, and cold spray.
- CEO / Founder
- Shen Baoxiang
- Stage
- Growth Stage
- Latest Round
- Series B
- Key Investors
- Shunwei Capital; Dunhong Asset
Technology & Products
Key Products
3D-printing aluminum, copper, nickel, stainless-steel, tool-steel, cobalt-alloy, titanium-alloy, and refractory-metal powders.
Technological Advantage
Produces powders for PBF, DED, binder jetting, and cold spray; reports an intelligent aluminum-alloy powder production-line cluster.
Patent position
CNPC Powder has filed 22 patent families across all years, compared with 14 for Höganäs AB. AMPulse analysis
- Filing momentum
- 7 families filed 2022–2024, 11 in 2019–2021
- Focus, 2019–2021 → 2022–2024
- Materials 100% → 100%
- Filed in
- CN 100%
- Named competitors, AM patent families
- Höganäs AB 14
22 AM patent families in total. Recent years are still being published, so read a filing change against the same-office figure.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
Supplies metal powder materials for multiple industrial additive-manufacturing processes.
How They Differentiate
China-based specialist focused on metal AM powder materials, with customized alloy offerings and aluminum-alloy powder capacity.
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Industrial additive-manufacturing users in aerospace, automotive, electronics, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.
Industry Verticals
Aerospace; chemicals; defense; casting; electronics; medical; powder metallurgy
Competitors
Höganäs; Kennametal; Asia General Powder Metallurgy
Growth & Milestones
Growth Metrics
A Formnext exhibitor release reported completion of a 1,500-ton annual additive aluminum-alloy powder production-line cluster in 2025.
Major Milestones
Founded in 2017; completed a near-RMB100 million Series A in October 2023; 36Kr lists an undisclosed Series B in January 2026; announced a 1,500-ton aluminum-alloy powder line cluster in 2025.
Recent coverage of CNPC Powder
AM patents
AM-relevant patents linked to this company.
- Patents
- 22
- Granted
- 1
- Families
- 22
Leading domains: material (22), process (22), equipment (1)
Filings by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3
- Preparation method of spherical tungsten carbide-cobalt powder for 3D printing111482611 · CN
- Additive-manufactured aluminum-neodymium-rare earth eutectic aluminum alloy and preparation method thereof117464021 · CN
- Method for preparing superfine nickel powder through liquid phase reduction110976905 · CN
- Preparation method and preparation equipment for 3D printing titanium alloy powder119657914 · CN
- Preparation process of low-density high-strength corrosion-resistant titanium powder material for additive manufacturing120400574 · CN