Great Simple
Supplier of 3D printing materials, including FDM filaments and SLA, DLP, and LCD photopolymer resins.
- CEO / Founder
- Yong Cai (蔡勇)
- Team Size
- 51-200
- Stage
- Active
- Total Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Latest Round
- Undisclosed
Technology & Products
Key Products
FDM filaments (PLA, PETG, TPU, PEBA and engineered materials); SLA, DLP and LCD photopolymer resins (tough, castable, transparent, heat-resistant and flexible grades)
Technological Advantage
Development of specialized 3D printing materials, including high-transparency and high-toughness photopolymer resins, supported by a documented patent portfolio.
Patent position
Great Simple filed 14 patent families across all years, compared with Formlabs’ 114 and 3D Systems’ 300. AMPulse analysis
- Filing momentum
- 5 families filed 2022–2024, 0 in 2019–2021
- Filed in
- CN 100%
- Named competitors, AM patent families
- Formlabs 1143D Systems 300
14 AM patent families in total. Recent years are still being published, so read a filing change against the same-office figure.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
A broad range of functional 3D printing materials spanning FDM filaments and SLA, DLP, and LCD resins for industrial and specialist applications.
How They Differentiate
Unverified at present; claimed service-first philosophy and regional support focus, but requires customer validation.
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Manufacturers, prototyping centers, industrial design firms requiring precision resin-based 3D printing
Industry Verticals
Jewelry Manufacturing; Dental/Medical; Consumer Products; Industrial Prototyping
Competitors
Formlabs (SLA/Form printers, global); 3D Systems (SLA historical leader, though shifted to other technologies); Asiga (micro-SLA for jewelry/dental)
Growth & Milestones
Growth Metrics
More than 10,000 customers in China and overseas, according to the company.
Major Milestones
2023: Recognized as Guangdong Province 'Specialized, Sophisticated, Special, and Novel' (专精特新) Small Giant enterprise; Feb 18, 2024: participated as a Zhongshan enterprise representative in the Guangdong High-Quality Development Conference in Shenzhen.
Notable Customers
JLC3DP, Keheng, Future Factory, Huitong 3D, Junchen 3D and Youlian Intelligent Manufacturing are named by the company as designated-material buyers.
AM patents
AM-relevant patents linked to this company.
- Patents
- 14
- Granted
- 3
- Families
- 14
Leading domains: process (14), equipment (3), material (3)
Filings by year: 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2
- Cationic free radical hybrid ultraviolet-curing resin and preparation method and application thereof106751349 · CN
- 3D printing method based on wavelength of 405nm107839217 · CN
- 3D printing light-cured resin with low ash content residue115215974 · CN
- SLA (Stereo Lithography Apparatus) photosensitive resin composition for 3D (Three-Dimensional) printing and application thereof106749987 · CN
- Variable optical path system107263872 · CN