Luxshare Precision enters metal AM production with titanium watch cases, AI glasses frames, and vapor chambers

Luxshare Precision, the Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer with over RMB 330 billion in 2025 revenue, disclosed in its Hong Kong IPO filing that its 3D-printed titanium alloy watch case project has entered mass production. The company is also developing metal AM processes for AI smart glasses frames and integrated vapor chambers for thermal management, signaling a deliberate expansion into additive manufacturing for consumer electronics and wearable devices.

Separately, Beifeng Intelligent Technology (Inner Mongolia) filed a RMB 130 million project to build a metal powder production facility in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, with 58 units across four lines targeting 1,100 tonnes annual capacity of copper alloys, nickel superalloys, stainless steel, and titanium alloys. Construction is scheduled to begin August 2026 with completion by 2028. Xi'an Aerospace Intelligent Manufacturing launched the Forging Print 650, a large-format DED system with a 660×660×740 mm build volume, four continuous lasers, and four in-situ peening lasers achieving 60–120 cm³/h deposition rates.

Luxshare's entry is the most consequential signal here. As a Tier 1 supplier to Apple and other major OEMs, its adoption of metal LPBF for titanium watch cases mirrors the consumer-electronics titanium pull-through that has already validated AM in Apple Watch Ultra and iPhone Air components. The company's parallel work on AM-fabricated AI glasses frames and vapor chambers suggests it sees additive as a production tool for high-volume, geometrically complex metal parts, not just prototyping.

Beifeng's powder investment fits the Chinese localization arc: domestic capacity for aerospace-grade nickel superalloys and titanium powders reduces reliance on Western suppliers and supports the growing fleet of Chinese metal AM machines. Xi'an Aerospace's Forging Print 650 targets the large-format DED segment where in-situ peening addresses residual stress and porosity issues, competing with systems from MELD Manufacturing and WAAM specialists. Together, these three developments show China's AM ecosystem advancing simultaneously on production adoption, materials self-sufficiency, and large-scale equipment capability.