Xihe Additive's Jiangxi phase-2 plant starts production this month, targets 50 metal 3D printers/month by Q3 2026

Xihe Additive Technology (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. is finishing equipment installation and debugging at its phase-2 plant and expects to begin production by the end of July 2026. The company projects the facility will reach a monthly output of 50 metal 3D printers by the end of the third quarter of 2026. Xihe is a subsidiary of Gongda Laser, which supplies the high-power green fiber laser sources used in its printers, and the company positions itself across laser source, printing hardware, and process service, with a stated focus on copper and aluminum printing for commercial aerospace and advanced thermal-management applications.

Green-wavelength lasers couple far more efficiently into copper and aluminum than the 1064nm infrared sources common in most LPBF systems, which is why high-reflectivity metal printing has lagged nickel and titanium alloys in production readiness. Xihe's vertical integration, drawing its laser source from its own parent company rather than a Western photonics supplier, tracks a broader pattern among Chinese metal AM entrants building domestic laser and materials supply chains rather than competing purely on machine specs. A 50-unit-per-month target implies capacity built for equipment sales rather than internal part production, positioning Xihe as a machine vendor to copper heat-exchanger and aluminum-conductor customers.

Whether Xihe converts this installed capacity into sustained utilization, rather than an announced capacity figure, is the detail worth revisiting next quarter.