Snapshot coverage: 305 of 320+ expected exhibitors as of 27 July 2026, mapped across six value-chain clusters for a visitor-first read of the show floor.
A coverage overview of the 305 confirmed exhibitors at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026 as of 27 July 2026, grouped by value-chain role. For visitors planning a focused walk of the show floor.
Sangmin Lee, AMPulse Editorial↓ Download PDF · FreePublished August 4, 2026 · Database snapshot July 27, 2026
305
confirmed exhibitors at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026, mapped for a visitor-first read of the show floor.
6
value-chain clusters
21
AM process variants
94
in top 3 cities (SZ / DG / GZ)
10
outside mainland China
Who made this, and from what
AMPulse (ampulse.online) is an independent additive manufacturing intelligence platform. It maintains a company database built from public sources, company websites, AM trade press, patent filings and funding disclosures, using automated collection with editorial review on top. Logos and company details in this brief were gathered by that system rather than supplied by the exhibitors.
The exhibitor list, booth numbers and Chinese company names come from Formnext Asia Shenzhen as of 27 July 2026. Everything else, the cluster assignments, company profiles, selections and commentary, is AMPulse’s own independent analysis. The Methodology section at the back sets out how each step was done; corrections are welcome at [email protected].
Foreword
Formnext Asia Shenzhen has rapidly become the most concentrated single read on where additive manufacturing in Asia, and especially in the Greater Bay Area, is heading. This pre-show exhibitor snapshot for 2026 offers an early view of that direction: 305 firms confirmed as of 27 July 2026, covering everything from desktop polymer printers to aerospace-grade laser powder bed fusion systems, with materials suppliers, service bureaus, software toolchains, and application specialists in between.
This Visitor Intelligence Brief is not a ranked list. It is a navigation aid. It groups every confirmed exhibitor into six value-chain clusters so a visitor with limited floor time can plan around the categories that matter to their work, surface a handful of firms per cluster that warrant a closer look, and walk away with a structural read on what the 2026 show floor represents.
How to read the two lists. Each cluster directory carries every confirmed exhibitor in that cluster, alphabetically. The "Featured profiles" block above it is a cross-section, chosen to span the cluster's roles, processes and outliers, not a "best in cluster" pick. Methodology sets out the selection rule.
What's in this brief
Floor read
Executive Snapshot
Five Signals in the 2026 Cohort
Geography
Process Families on the Floor
Capital and Funding Activity
Industry Verticals on the Floor
Floor map and reference
Cluster A · Metal Systems and Materials
Cluster B · Polymer Production and Consumer
Cluster C · AI, Software, and Workflow
Cluster D · Post-processing, Inspection, and Service
Cluster E · Vertical Applications and Specialty Materials
Cluster F · AM-Adjacent Equipment
Exhibitors Outside Mainland China
Visitor Playbook · Glossary · Methodology
Executive Snapshot
The 2026 floor is predominantly mainland China-headquartered, with selective international and cross-regional participation. Of 305 confirmed exhibitors, 300 are classified in the current snapshot; among these, 290 are headquartered in mainland China and the remaining 10 are spread across 8 other origin markets. Production hardware, materials, and the long tail of post-processing and service categories all converge on Shenzhen, mirroring the city's role as the manufacturing hub for the regional electronics, EV, and consumer-product supply chains that consume AM output downstream.
The exhibitor base is younger than a similar Western show would skew. 155 of the 305 firms were founded in 2016 or later; only 32 were founded before 2006. The distribution reflects a category that scaled with the second wave of consumer FFF (post-2016) and the more recent industrial LPBF wave (post-2020), rather than the older European or US incumbents that anchor Formnext Frankfurt.
Value-chain roles split unevenly across the cohort. 110 firms (36.1%) sell production hardware, but 98 (32.1%) sell materials and 27 sell finished service. That split is the floor's clearest structural signal: the show is strongly weighted toward feedstock and machines, with a noticeably smaller service-bureau presence.
Ten numbers that describe the 2026 floor
305
confirmed exhibitors
95.1%
based in mainland China
51
in Shenzhen alone
21
AM process variants
12
named verticals served
148
in Cluster B (largest)
73
founded 2021 or later
98
materials specialists
10
non-mainland exhibitors
7
in Cluster C (smallest)
Cluster composition
A · Metal Systems289.3%
B · Polymer & Materials14849.3%
C · Software & AI72.3%
D · Service & Production3812.7%
E · Application Specialists3511.7%
F · AM-Adjacent Equipment4414.7%
5 additional exhibitors appear in the ungrouped list.
Value-chain split
Hardware11036.7%
Materials9832.7%
AM-Adjacent Equipment4414.7%
Service279%
Post-Processing113.7%
Software51.7%
Application31%
Platform20.7%
All 8 value-chain roles across the 300 classified exhibitors. Materials sits second only to Hardware; feedstock is its own commercial category here.
Founding-year cohorts
≤20004%
2001-20056.7%
2006-20109.3%
2011-201522.3%
2016-202027.3%
2021-present24.3%
Unknown6%
Half the floor (50.8%) was founded in 2016 or later.
Where the firms come from (top 8 cities)
Shenzhen
Dongguan
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Suzhou
Zhongshan
Zhuhai
Foshan
94 of 305 firms (30.8%) sit in the top three cities. Using the official 11-city Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area definition, 129 exhibitors (42.3%) are headquartered in the GBA.
Every exhibitor, by cluster
The 300 classified exhibitors, grouped into the six value-chain clusters used throughout this brief; the 5 ungrouped firms are listed at the back. Booth numbers appear against every firm in the per-cluster directories that follow.
AMetal Systems28 firms · 9.3%
SA
UV
HM
BL
KL
BPolymer & Materials148 firms · 49.3%
MA
TE
ZJ
HZ
GS
PM
SA
GT
QG
HN
JU
HZ
HN
GM
TB
TO
HN
SD
DG
PD
DD
AS
HT
SW
YI
BN
TM
YX
YU
GM
JP
CM
GC
BO
MD
AY
RM
ID
CSoftware & AI7 firms · 2.3%
DService & Production38 firms · 12.7%
BX
BL
ST
MD
HE
RO
SP
HH
SY
EApplication Specialists35 firms · 11.7%
LI
JR
ST
MM
DD
ST
FAM-Adjacent Equipment44 firms · 14.7%
HL
BT
IN
LL
RS
LE
SH
EJ
XM
ZE
XE
300 classified exhibitors across six value-chain clusters. Logos are collected automatically from each company's own public web presence (231 of 300, 77%); the rest show a monogram. Exhibitors who want a logo added or corrected can write to [email protected].
Five Signals in the 2026 Cohort
1. Polymer-AM is the floor's center of gravity. Cluster B alone covers 48.5% of the floor: filament makers, resin formulators, and the desktop / industrial polymer-printer category. That weight reflects the show's location more than global polymer-vs-metal market share: Shenzhen anchors the consumer-AM supply chain.
2. The metal half is the production-LPBF tier more than the experimental tier. Of the 28 firms in Cluster A, the majority are industrial LPBF system makers serving aerospace, energy, and tooling. Binder jetting and DED are present but less prominent. Treat the metal side as a production-economics conversation centered on established industrial processes.
3. Software is the smallest cluster on the floor. 7 exhibitors qualify as software or AI specialists. This partly reflects how AM software reaches the market: slicers, simulation and MES are often bundled with systems sold by hardware exhibitors, while global CAD/CAM incumbents do not typically anchor regional show floors. The standalone software visible here is therefore concentrated in areas still being unbundled, particularly generative AI, content marketplaces and AM-specific production management.
4. Materials specialists outnumber dedicated post-processing. Across all six clusters, 98 firms identify as Materials and 11 as Post-Processing. The implication: feedstock is now a commercial category on its own, separate from the printers that consume it.
5. The verticals served are wide; participation from outside mainland China spreads across functional categories. Exhibitors collectively serve 12 named end-industry verticals (generic industrial and unmapped labels sit in catch-all buckets), with EV / automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer / education, and medical accounting for the largest exhibitor shares. The ten exhibitors headquartered outside mainland China spread across software, polymer hardware and materials, construction AM, and the instrumentation, filtration, and packaging support layer. The Exhibitors Outside Mainland China section profiles all ten.
Value-chain role distribution
Hardware
Materials
AM-Adjacent Equipment
Service
Post-Processing
Software
Application
Platform
Each classified exhibitor's primary value-chain role.
Geography
The 2026 exhibitor base is firmly anchored in Shenzhen, with 95.1% of confirmed exhibitors headquartered in mainland China. Across the full official Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area definition, the GBA accounts for 129 exhibitors (42.3% of the floor). The other major concentration is the Yangtze River Delta, with Beijing and Xi'an supplying the aerospace-anchored metal participants.
Throughout this brief, Greater Bay Area (GBA) means the same 11-city scope: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing, Hong Kong SAR, China, Macao SAR, China.
Exhibitor city distribution
Bubbles are area-proportional to exhibitor count. 94 of 305 exhibitors (30.8%) sit in the top three cities. The teal halo is the 11-city GBA scope defined above.
City-level concentration (full list)
Shenzhen
Dongguan
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Suzhou
Zhongshan
Zhuhai
Foshan
Xi'an
Hangzhou
Beijing
Huizhou
Same data, ranked.
Nine international exhibitors are represented: two each from the United States and Germany, and one each from India, Singapore, South Korea, France, and Canada. One additional exhibitor is headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China. The deep-dive below profiles all ten.
Process families on the floor
The 300 classified exhibitors collectively touch 21 distinct AM process variants: ISO/ASTM 52900 families plus their sub-processes (VPP splits into SLA / DLP / LCD, for example), each counted separately. The distribution maps directly onto the cluster shape: polymer processes (FFF, SLA, DLP, polymer SLS, MJF) dominate by count, metal LPBF and binder jetting form a smaller but more capital-intensive sub-cluster, and a long tail of niche processes (DED, 3DCP, multi-material PolyJet, ceramic vat-photopolymerization) round out the floor.
AM process families by exhibitor count (top 10 shown)
MEX (FFF/FDM)
PBF-LB (metal LPBF)
VPP-SLA
DED-LB
VPP-DLP
PBF-LB (polymer SLS)
VPP
BJT
PBF-EB
VPP-LCD
Each exhibitor may touch multiple process families (a vendor of metal LPBF systems with binder-jetting in development counts in both). Polymer process families lead by count, metal LPBF leads by capital intensity.
Six process families that anchor the floor
PBF-LB
Metal LPBF
MEX
FFF / FDM
VPP
SLA / DLP / LCD
BJT
Binder Jetting
MJF
Multi Jet Fusion
DED-LB
Directed Energy Dep.
Stylized schematics, not engineering drawings. Cluster A is mostly PBF-LB; Cluster B spans MEX, VPP, and polymer SLS; binder jetting and DED-LB sit in the long tail.
For a visitor mapping a single process family across vendors:
PBF-LB (metal laser powder-bed fusion, often called LPBF): 20 exhibitors. Concentrated in Cluster A.
MEX FFF / FDM (filament extrusion): 41 exhibitors. Concentrated in Cluster B; spans from desktop consumer (Creality, Snapmaker, Flashforge) to PEEK-capable industrial lines (TPM3D Yingpu on the SLS side, Jucoole and Friend Machinery on the feedstock side).
VPP (vat photopolymerization: SLA, DLP, LCD): 40 exhibitors. Spans clusters B and E; the dental application sub-cluster is concentrated here.
PBF-LB (polymer SLS): 10 exhibitors. Mostly industrial polymer powder-bed systems and materials.
BJT (binder jetting): 6 exhibitors. Present in the exhibitor mix, mostly metal binder-jet.
MJF: 2 exhibitors. The most selectively represented mainstream polymer process at this show. HP is present at booth C31, so the floor includes a direct HP MJF system presence alongside materials and service channels.
Capital and funding activity
This section reports AMPulse-tracked funding events for the Formnext Asia Shenzhen exhibitor cohort in the 2024-2025 window, plus IPO-related corporate events through April 2026. Attribution draws on named Chinese-language trade-press sources and, where available, regulatory filings (36Kr PitchHub, Sina Finance, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Tencent News, vbdata, jixin.tech, 网易, Fabbaloo), recorded at company level in the report data. The scope is the exhibitor base, not the CN AM market.
Capital signal
Disclosed rounds, IPO events, and strategic capital
Exhibitors with tracked rounds
12
of 305 confirmed
2024 rounds
7
across the exhibitor cohort
2025 rounds
12
across the exhibitor cohort
2026 H1 rounds + IPO events
2
incl. ELEGOO B+ (Meituan)
2025-01
Scantech (思看科技)
IPO (STAR Market)
~$79M
2026-04
ELEGOO
Series B+
~$69M
2025-12-23
Vilory
C
~$43M
AMPulse-tracked, exhibitor-cohort-only. Rounds are compiled from named Chinese-language trade press and regulatory filings; source domains are recorded in the report data with attribution at company level.
Funding events on the Formnext Asia Shenzhen floor, 2024-2026
StrategicAngel / Pre-AABCIPO·signal event
Each dot is a disclosed funding event for a confirmed exhibitor. Lane order is by date of first event; companies with multiple events show a connecting line. Dot color encodes round type; signal-event dots are outlined white. Magnitude is a USD floor: RMB rounds converted at the 2023-2026 average rate; magnitude-only buckets ('数亿') carry no USD estimate.
The largest disclosed floor events in the table are Scantech's STAR Market IPO in January 2025 at ¥569M raised, ELEGOO's Series B+ in April 2026 at over ¥500M (~$70M USD, led by Meituan with SCGC and Hillhouse participating), Vilory's Series C in December 2025 at ¥310M, and ELEGOO's Series B / strategic round from DJI (大疆创新) in November 2025 at roughly ¥300M. The 36Kr Chinese-language registry-change writeup confirms the DJI recipient is ELEGOO (registered entity 智能派科技), not its similarly sized Shenzhen peer Anycubic. Vilory's Series B in February 2024 at ¥260M (~$36M USD, lead 国企混改基金) remains the largest disclosed 2024 round on the show floor.
Exhibitors with tracked funding histories
These are the show-floor firms with AMPulse-tracked funding events. Each company's full tracked history is shown, from pre-2024 rounds through events launched but not yet closed, so the 2024-2025 activity reads in context; magnitude buckets (数亿, "several hundred million RMB") are reported as-is rather than guessed at. Companies on the exhibitor list but absent from this table either raised outside AMPulse's tracking, are profitable / privately financed without disclosure, or sit below the threshold Chinese SMEs typically publish at.
Vilory
江苏威拉里新材料科技有限公司
5 tracked events
2022-11-04
Strategic
not disclosed · 远方资本 (Yuanfang Capital)
2023-07-17
A
approx ¥100M (~$14M USD) · undisclosed
2024-02
B
¥260M · 国企混改基金
2025-12-23
C
¥310M · 国家级产业基金 (national industrial fund, name undisclosed)
2026-04-03
C+
TBD (launched, not yet closed as of 2026-05) · TBD
Eplus3D
杭州易加三维增材技术股份有限公司
3 tracked events
2023-05
B
数亿 (several hundred million) · 国投创合
2024-07
B+
数亿 (several hundred million) · 国投创合
2024-12
B++
数亿 (several hundred million) · 北京市先进制造和智能装备产业投资基金
ELEGOO
深圳市智能派科技有限公司
3 tracked events
2023-12
Strategic
undisclosed · SZHTI Group + Bofo Fund
2025-11
Series B
¥300M · DJI (大疆创新)
2026-04
Series B+
¥500M · Meituan (美团)
Meiguang 3D / FastForm (美光三维 / 美光速造)
美光（江苏）三维科技有限公司
3 tracked events
2024-03
Strategic
not disclosed · 悦达汽车基金 (YueDa Automotive)
2025-03
Series A
approx ¥100M · 永鑫方舟 (Yongxin Fangzhou)
2025-08
Series A (extension, originally labelled A+)
not disclosed · 华登国际 (Walden International)
Zhongyuan Advanced Materials (众远新材料)
宁波众远新材料科技有限公司
2 tracked events
2024-06
C
not disclosed · 深创投 + others
2025-01
C
not disclosed · 泸州航发投
Yingpu 3D / TPM3D (盈普三维)
上海盈普三维打印科技有限公司
2 tracked events
2024-02
Series A
not disclosed · 力合智汇
2025-01
Series A+
not disclosed · 中时资本 (Zhongshi Capital)
Uniwin Technology (众智信赢)
深圳市众智信赢精密科技有限公司
2 tracked events
2025-01
Angel
not disclosed · 广东瑞枫
2025-09
A
not disclosed · 同创伟业
DEW Additive Manufacturing (Taicang)
德亿纬三维打印科技（太仓）有限公司
1 tracked event
2025-11
A
不详 (not disclosed) · 原子创投
Scantech (思看科技)
思看科技（杭州）股份有限公司
1 tracked event
2025-01
IPO (STAR Market)
¥569M · Shanghai STAR Market
Chuangrui Laser (创瑞激光)
陕西创瑞激光增材技术有限公司
1 tracked event
2025-05
B+
not disclosed · 创业达创投
Xi'an Sailong AM Technologies (赛隆增材)
西安赛隆增材技术股份有限公司
1 tracked event
2024-04-12
Angel
not disclosed · 中泓资本
Glory AMT (熠立增材)
常州熠立增材科技有限公司
1 tracked event
2025-03
A
not disclosed · 长盈精密
Formnext Asia Shenzhen exhibitors with AMPulse-tracked funding events. Vilory's five tracked events, from a 2022 strategic round through the C+ launched in April 2026, are the highest funding-event density on the floor.
Reading the concentration figure
Within the 300 classified exhibitors (of 305 confirmed; the remaining 5 sit in the ungrouped list at the back of the brief), our internal database has cumulative funding figures for 73 firms. 227 firms are recorded as undisclosed, unknown, or carry non-parseable values. Across the 73-firm disclosed subset, the top five hold roughly 54.6% of total disclosed capital. That number reads as extreme concentration, but two adjustments matter before treating it as a market-wide claim:
Platform and conglomerate footprints: the top of the disclosed table is not AM-dedicated capital. JLCPCB's $825M sits on a MaaS platform whose volume base is PCB manufacturing, and Sinornach Diamond's $690M reflects a superhard-materials industrial business. Publicly listed exhibitors (Han's Laser, Scantech, Villo Technology) drop out of the disclosed set entirely because their scale is not expressed as venture funding. The concentration figure describes the venture-disclosed subset, not the floor's true capital ranking.
Disclosure bias: 227 of the 300 classified firms have not publicly disclosed funding. Some are pre-revenue startups, others are profitable SMEs operating without venture capital. Concentration measured only across disclosed firms overstates what the same metric would say across the full floor.
The per-event table above is the more credible base: it covers named, dated rounds attributable to specific sources, and it shows the flow of capital event by event rather than one cumulative snapshot. The cumulative per-company total is useful for comparing scale, but the per-event table is what a visitor should read first.
Industry verticals on the floor
Exhibitors are not single-vertical operators; most ship across three or four end industries. Aggregated by AMPulse's vertical-normalization rule, the floor is dominated by EV / automotive, aerospace and defense, medical and dental, and consumer / education.
Industry verticals served by exhibitors (top 10 named verticals)
Automotive & EV
Aerospace & Defense
Consumer & Education
Medical & Life Sciences
Electronics & Semiconductor
Energy
Tooling & Molds
Dental
Construction & Architecture
Packaging
A single firm may serve multiple verticals. Aerospace & defense covers both civil aviation and military programs; automotive includes EV battery, motor, and structural-component applications.
A
28 firms · Hardware-led · Metal AM
Metal Systems
The metal cluster is the cohort's production-systems anchor. Most exhibitors operate at the industrial end: laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems for aerospace, energy, and high-precision tooling. A smaller materials slice covers the spherical metal powders these systems consume.
What a visitor walking this cluster is mapping is the production maturity of Chinese metal AM. The industrial LPBF and adjacent metal-process specialists (Eplus3D, Han's Laser, Hanbang Laser, Farsoon, Sailong Additive, BLT) sit alongside aerospace-anchored operators like Xi'an Aerospace Additive Manufacturing. Read together, they describe a cluster focused on print economics, machine throughput, and certified-part workflows rather than 3D printing as novelty.
The cluster is one of the floor's capital-dense layers. Cluster A's disclosed-capital anchors include BLT at $517.5M, Farsoon at $153M, Eplus3D at $141M, and Hanbang Laser at $110M, with Han's Laser alongside as a publicly traded laser conglomerate whose scale sits outside the venture-disclosed table. Larger disclosed polymer and materials positions sit separately in Cluster B, including UnionTech and Yangzhou Huitong.
Featured profiles · Cluster A
Six exhibitors that map the cluster's value-chain spread. Selection rule and full rationale in the methodology section.
Founded 2014 · Hangzhou, China (APAC Headquarters, new 480 million CNY additive manufacturing industrialization base); Ludwigsburg, Germany (EMEA Region); Houston, USA (Americas Region) · 201-500 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Series B+
Funding raised
$141M
Eplus3D develops industrial-grade metal additive manufacturing equipment, specializing in large-format laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) machines.
Products
EP-M2050 · EP-M1550 · EP-M1250 · EP-M650
Verticals
Aerospace · Automotive · Energy · Mold-making · Electronics · +1 more
Investors
SDIC Unity Capital (国投创合) · 航发基金 · 前海中船 · 中信证券投资 · +4 more
CEO
Feng Tao
Large-format LPBF specialist with one of the broadest metal-AM build envelopes shipped from a domestic vendor; a useful comparison point for buyers evaluating big-frame production economics.
Founded 2009 · Changsha, Hunan, China · 501-1000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
IPO
Funding raised
$153M
Chinese industrial 3D printer manufacturer specializing in metal (SLM) and polymer (SLS) laser powder bed fusion systems, publicly listed on Shanghai STAR Market.
Products
Metal PBF systems: FS1521M (Φ1510×1650mm · 16 lasers) · FS1211M · FS721M · +8 more
Verticals
Aerospace & Aviation · Automotive · Molds & Tooling · Medical & Dental · 3C/Consumer Electronics · +1 more
Investors
SDIC Venture Capital (国投创业) · public shareholders (Shanghai STAR Market)
CEO
Xu Xiaoshu (许小曙)
Founded 2009 by a former 3D Systems engineer; one of the few Chinese firms operating both polymer SLS and metal LPBF product lines at industrial scale, with installed base across automotive and aerospace.
Founded 1996 · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1001-5000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
IPO
Market footprint
Publicly Traded
Public conglomerate scale, not AM-deployed capital.
Chinese publicly listed manufacturer of laser processing equipment, laser sources, and related automation solutions, with a growing additive manufacturing division through subsidiary Han's Matrix (大族聚维).
Products
HANS M100/M160/M190/M260/M360/M360G/M410/M460/M720 SLM metal 3D printers; DMD laser metal wire deposition systems; LMD laser metal powder deposition systems; DGT-250P polymer 3D printer; Green laser (532nm) SLM systems for copper alloys; 5-axis hybrid subtractive-additive manufacturing system; Mobile laser cladding & 3D printing system
Verticals
Consumer Electronics · Mold & Die · Automotive · Aerospace · Medical/Dental · +3 more
Investors
Publicly traded on Shenzhen Stock Exchange (002008.SZ); major institutional holders include various Chinese mutual funds and index funds
CEO
Gao Yunfeng (高云峰)
Public industrial-laser conglomerate whose AM exposure represents the 'incumbent diversification' pattern in the cluster: large laser-system maker now selling into metal AM as a downstream segment rather than as its main business.
Founded 2015 · Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Materials
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Series C
Funding raised
$4.4M
Metal additive manufacturing powder materials supplier focused on high-temperature alloys, titanium alloys, mold steels, and aluminum alloys for aerospace, medical, and industrial applications.
Products
Metal powders (titanium alloys · nickel-based superalloys · aluminum alloys · mold steels · +6 more
Verticals
Aerospace and defense (~70% of revenue) · Medical implants · Automotive (incl. NEV) · 3C consumer electronics · Mold and die (shoe molds) · +1 more
Investors
China State-owned Enterprise Mixed Ownership Reform Fund · Shenzhen Capital Group (深创投) · CICC Capital (中金资本) · CMB International (招银国际) · +4 more
CEO
蒋保林 (Jiang Baolin)
Spherical metal powder maker with substantial disclosed capital; pairs naturally with the LPBF systems vendors on the same floor for buyers evaluating feedstock supply alongside machine selection.
Founded 2011 · Xi'an, Shaanxi, China · 1001-5000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Post-IPO
Funding raised
$517.5M
Chinese metal additive manufacturing company providing full-stack solutions including PBF-LB/M and DED-LB/M equipment, metal powders, printing services, and software, publicly listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market.
Products
BLT-S Series (S210 · S310/S320 · S400 · S450 · +21 more
Verticals
Aerospace · Aviation · Automotive · Medical & Dental · Mold & Tooling · +4 more
Investors
Western Capital (西高投) · CITIC Securities Investment (中信建投资本) · Jinshi Investment (金石投资) · Yunding Capital (云鼎资本) · +1 more
CEO
Xue Lei (薛蕾)
BLT sells PBF-LB and DED equipment, its own titanium and superalloy powders, and a parts service off the same booth, so one stop answers the make-versus-buy question across the whole metal chain. Note that it appears on the July list through its Shenzhen entity rather than the Xi'an parent, so expect the commercial arm rather than the R&D site.
Xi'an Aerospace Additive Manufacturing (Xikong Zhizao) provides intelligent metal and multi-material additive manufacturing (i-3D) solutions specializing in high-performance propulsion components for aerospace and energy sectors.
Products
i-3D Intelligent Manufacturing Framework (Forge-Point-Face technology) · Selective Electron Beam Melting (SEBM) / EBSM Equipment · Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) Online Monitoring & Quality Evaluation Systems · Laser Forging Printing (LFP) Systems · +7 more
Verticals
Aerospace & Aviation · Defense & Military · New Energy Propulsion · Advanced Equipment Manufacturing
Investors
Sirui Advanced Materials (斯瑞新材) · Xi'an Jiaotong University (via IP transfer) · Xi'an Aerospace Energy Power Research Institute · Qin Chuang Yuan Platform · +5 more
CEO
Wang Guangqiang
Xikong Zhizao runs metal and multi-material AM for the aerospace supply chain, so the conversation here is qualification, traceability and part acceptance rather than machine specs. Useful counterweight to the four machine builders elsewhere in this cluster.
Cluster B is the floor's largest by count and the most visually obvious category for a visitor walking the show. It groups consumer- and industrial-grade polymer printer makers (FFF, SLA, MJF, DLP) with the resin and filament suppliers that feed them, plus a long tail of materials specialists whose customer base spans both polymer and metal customers.
Two stories run through the cluster simultaneously. The first is the consumer-AM consolidation of the post-2020 wave of fast-iteration desktop machines that reset what casual users expect from the category, represented here by Bambu Lab, Creality, Snapmaker, Flashforge, Kingroon and BIQU, and the engineering-thermoplastic tier above it, where PEEK-capable systems and feedstock (TPM3D Yingpu, Jucoole) carry the industrial side of the same toolchain. Bambu Lab appears at D121, and the industrial powder-bed side also includes HP at C31. The second story is the materials-side build-out: AM-grade polymer feedstock, specialty metal powders that ship as much through Cluster B firms as through Cluster A (GRAMT), and the slow re-segmentation of "AM company" into "AM hardware company" vs "AM consumables company".
For most visitors the cluster's density is the point. Spending an afternoon walking only Cluster B is a defensible plan if you are mapping the consumer / prosumer polymer end of the market, the industrial FFF and SLA tier, or the feedstock supply chain for either.
Featured profiles · Cluster B
Eight exhibitors selected to span the cluster's process and value-chain breadth: consumer FFF, HP MJF, industrial SLA, multi-material polymer, metal powders, and construction AM.
Founded 2021 · Beijing Huairou Science City, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Materials
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Corporate Round
Funding raised
$1.3M
Subsidiary of GRINM Group specializing in metal powder materials for additive manufacturing, including aluminum, copper, titanium, and nickel-based superalloy powders.
Products
High-flowability aluminum alloy powders · Low-oxygen copper and copper alloy powders (pure Cu · CuCrZr · CuNi30 · +7 more
Verticals
Aerospace · Commercial Space · Automotive · Medical · Mold and Tooling · +1 more
AM-grade titanium and nickel-superalloy powder supplier with material-side disclosure relevant for anyone evaluating supply security for aerospace metal feedstock; also a reminder that this 'Polymer & Materials' cluster is materials-heavy in practice.
Founded 2005 · Building 11, No.1158 Zhongxin Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Polymer AM
Latest round
Series C
Funding raised
$29M
Develops industrial-grade SLA 3D printing systems using proprietary Subpixel Micro Scan (SMS) technology for mass continuous production.
Products
Industrial-grade SLA 3D printing systems, consumables, and overall 3D printing solution services. Focuses on high-precision applications including medical (invisible orthodontics) and microfluidics.
Verticals
Medical · Dental · Industrial Manufacturing
Investors
Qiming Venture Partners (Series C lead) · BASF Venture Capital (Series A) · Jinyu Bogor (Series C) · Duowei Capital (financial advisor)
CEO
Hou Feng
Twenty-year industrial SLA specialist with proprietary mid-tier resin platforms (PSP / RSPro); read alongside the desktop polymer vendors to map the breadth of polymer process families on the floor.
Develops industrial full-color, multi-material 3D printers using proprietary White Jet Process (WJP) for medical and industrial applications.
Products
WJP 3D Printers · MJR (Multi-jet Reaction) technology · 3D Printing Materials · PLA Filament
Verticals
Medical · Education · Industrial Design · Art Design · Jewelry
Investors
Legend Capital
CEO
吕如松 (Lyu Rusong)
PolyJet-style full-color multi-material polymer printing for design, medical anatomy models, and prosthetics; one of the few CN firms competing in the high-end PolyJet category against Stratasys.
A high-performance consumer technology company specializing in AI-powered, high-speed desktop 3D printers that offer a 'plug-and-play' professional-grade experience.
Products
High-speed FDM/FFF 3D printers (X1 series · P1P · A1 Combo · X1 Carbon · +2 more
Founded 2014 · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 501-1000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Polymer AM
Latest round
IPO
Funding raised
$79.3M
Chinese consumer 3D printer manufacturer and global brand, producing FDM and SLA printers, 3D scanners, laser engravers, and operating the Creality Cloud content platform.
Products
Ender series (FDM entry-level) · K series (CoreXY flagship FDM) · HALOT series (resin/SLA) · Falcon series (laser engravers) · +7 more
Verticals
Education · Toy and figure manufacturing · Industrial prototyping · Design concept realization · Medical · +2 more
Investors
Tencent Investment (腾讯创投) · Shenzhen Capital Group (深创投) · Qianhai FOF (前海母基金) · Buhuo Ventures (不惑创投) · +7 more
CEO
Ao Danjun (敖丹军)
Creality brings Ender and K-series FDM, HALOT resin, scanners, and the Creality Cloud content layer. Walk it against Bambu Lab at D121 to compare how the two Shenzhen consumer-AM anchors package speed, automation, content, and materials ecosystems.
A leading desktop 3D printer manufacturer specializing in modular multi-function devices that combine 3D printing, laser engraving, and CNC carving capabilities, with breakthrough multi-color multi-material printing technology.
Products
Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1 3D printer · laser engraver · CNC carver) · Snapmaker Artisan · +1 more
Verticals
Desktop 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing · Consumer Electronics Hardware · STEAM Education & Maker Movement · Rapid Prototyping & Product Design · Small-scale Manufacturing & Fabrication · +1 more
Investors
Hillhouse Capital (高瓴创投) · Meituan (美团) · Shunwei Capital (顺为资本) · Meituan Longzhu (美团龙珠) · +4 more
CEO
Daniel Chen
Snapmaker sells one chassis that prints, engraves, and carves, plus a four-head tool-changer for multi-material work. Worth walking directly after Creality if you are deciding whether a lab buys one flexible machine or three specialised ones.
Founded 2016 · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Construction AM
Latest round
Series A
Funding raised
$5.65M
Indigenous 3D concrete printing (3DCP) technology platform with vertically integrated hardware (robotic printers, nozzles) and concrete admixtures, automating 80% of construction processes to reduce lead times from 18+ months to weeks while enabling mass-customized, non-rectilinear structures at 40-60% cost reduction.
Products
Gantry-based 3D printers, robotic arm-based printers, and proprietary concrete admixtures for 3D concrete printing (3DCP); co-developed 'Cedar' with 14Trees, an AI-enabled portal-frame 3D concrete printer (up to 10m print height, 240 sqm footprint) using standard local concrete mixes. Productized solutions for affordable housing and mass customization.
Verticals
Construction & Real Estate · Affordable Housing · Industrial Manufacturing · Infrastructure Development · Modular Construction
Investors
Z Nation Lab (latest round lead · October 2024) · Habitat for Humanity International (Shelter Venture Fund) · ADB Ventures (Asian Development Bank) · +7 more
CEO
Adithya Jain
India's indigenous 3D concrete printing platform; the only non-China hardware specialist in this cluster and a useful window into how construction-AM is industrializing outside the Chinese supply chain.
7 firms · Software-led · the smallest cluster on the floor
Software & AI
Cluster C is the floor's clearest structural signal about where AM software is most visible at this show. Seven confirmed exhibitors, and the July additions tilted the cluster decisively toward generative AI: a US-headquartered generative-3D platform (Meshy) now sits alongside three domestic counterparts (DreamTech, Deemos, and Hitem3D), with an established 3D-model marketplace (CGModel), the China arm of a foreign metrology software vendor (Hexagon Software Technology), and a laser beam-control software specialist (JCZ Technology). Four AI-native generative players against one marketplace, one CAD/metrology incumbent, and one machine-control vendor: the surface area of what an AM operator actually buys as software in 2026, weighted far more toward model generation than toward production management.
The reason the cluster is small is also the reason it matters. Slicers, simulation, and MES are bundled into the hardware vendors' offerings on the Cluster A and B booths; CAD/CAM incumbents (Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault, PTC) ship globally and don't typically anchor on regional show floors. The standalone software represented at this show is concentrated in the segments where AM software is still being unbundled and where a domestic ecosystem is still forming: generative AI for 3D, content marketplaces, and AM-specific production management. Visitors mapping the software toolchain should treat Cluster C as the standalone-software map and the hardware-cluster booths as the bundled-software map; the two together are the full picture.
Featured profiles · Cluster C
Selected profiles from the cluster's seven exhibitors.
An AI-native 3D generative platform that enables users to transform text prompts and images into high-quality 3D models and physical products through a 'prompt-to-product' workflow.
Products
Meshy 6 / generative 3D engine (text-to-3D · image-to-3D · PBR texturing · rigging/animation) · +6 more
Verticals
Video Game Development · Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) · Industrial Design · E-commerce & Digital Marketing · Entertainment & Animation
Investors
IDG Capital · Matrix Partners China (经纬中国) · Monolith Management · Granite Asia · +5 more
CEO
Yuanming (Ethan) Hu
Generative-AI 3D asset platform now widely used as a front-end to AM workflows; the only non-China-headquartered firm in this cluster and a useful tool comparison for design teams.
Founded 2023 · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Software
Core technology
-
Latest round
Strategic Investment
Funding raised
$9.6M
Native 3D generation AI startup developing AI-powered text/image-to-3D model generation technology
Products
Neural4D (AI 3D generation platform); Direct3D-1B/5B (3D-DiT foundation models); Neural4D-2.0/2.5 (next-gen model architecture); AnimeIt! (anime-style 3D character generation); AnimeArt (anime 3D AIGC platform)
Verticals
Gaming · Animation · AR/VR · 3D Printing · E-commerce · +1 more
Investors
Oriza Seed (元禾原点) · Qidi Star VC (启迪之星创投) · Cloud Angel Fund (云天使基金) · First Heart Capital (初心资本) · +4 more
CEO
Zhang Feihu (张飞虎)
Domestic AI 3D generation startup building text-to-3D and image-to-3D pipelines; one of the fastest-moving CN peers to Meshy and a useful side-by-side at the show.
Founded 2017 · Qingdao, Shandong, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
Software
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Strategic Investment
Funding raised
Undisclosed
Chinese subsidiary of Hexagon AB providing industrial software solutions including additive manufacturing simulation, quality management, and smart manufacturing platforms.
Products
Simufact Additive (metal AM process simulation) · HxGN Additive Manufacturing Suite (build preparation & process optimization) · Design for Additive Manufacturing · MSC Apex Generative Design · +4 more
Verticals
Aerospace · Automotive · Electronics · Energy · Medical Devices · +1 more
Investors
Hexagon AB (parent company - wholly owned subsidiary via Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Management Ltd)
CEO
Wang Deyong (王德勇)
China-domiciled subsidiary of Hexagon AB covering metrology and industrial software; presence here signals how multinational IT vendors are localizing AM-adjacent software in the region.
Founded 2015 · Changsha, Hunan, China · 11-50 staff
Value chain
Platform
Core technology
-
Latest round
Strategic Investment
Funding raised
Undisclosed
Operates CG模型网 (cgmodel.com), a 3D model marketplace and CG design community platform for digital content creators
Products
CG模型网 (cgmodel.com) - 3D model marketplace; Digital copyright registration services; Online tutorials; "Digital Cultural Relic Protection Plan" for digitizing cultural artifacts; AI-driven 3D content creation tools
Verticals
Digital Content Creation · Gaming · Animation · Film & TV · Architecture · +2 more
Investors
Visual China Group (北京华夏视觉科技集团有限公司)
CEO
董艳
Operator of cgmodel.com, a long-running 3D asset marketplace with deep penetration in the Chinese design community; relevant for studios looking at distribution as much as software.
Founded 2024 · Beijing, China (legal HQ); Hong Kong SAR, China / global brand (Hitem3D) · 11-50 staff
Value chain
Software
Core technology
Novel Process
Latest round
Pre-Series A
Funding raised
$69.4M
Generative-AI company (Math Magic / 数美万物) behind HiTEM3D: image-to-ultra-high-resolution 3D (up to 1536³) for design, games, and 3D-print workflows; cross-border creative-commerce and manufacturing adjacency per CN press.
Products
HiTEM3D 2.0 Web Platform (launched March 2026) · Sparc3D Foundation Model (High-Resolution Geometry) · Ultra3D Model (High-Speed Generation) · HiTEM3D Public API · +2 more
Meituan Dragonball (lead · Jan 2025 Pre-A) · Jinqiu Fund · Sequoia China (红杉中国) · +2 more
CEO
Ren Lifeng (任利锋)
HiTEM3D generates image-to-3D at up to 1536 cubed, the band where generative geometry starts surviving a slicer instead of only a render. Founded 2024 and already at $69.4M, it is the sharpest read on how fast this segment is being funded.
Founded 2004 · #22 Building, #13 Mintai Road, Shunyi District, Beijing City, China, 101300 · 201-500 staff
Value chain
Software
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Post-IPO
Funding raised
$6.4M
Develops laser beam transmission and control software systems for additive manufacturing, including 3D printing, laser marking, cutting, and welding control systems with integrated scanning modules.
Products
Laser processing control systems (including EZCAD software) · laser system integrated hardware · laser precision processing equipment. Specific products include Hercules System · Zeus Laser Marking System · +5 more
JCZ ships the beam-transmission and scanner-control layer, EZCAD and its 3D printing control systems, that sits between a build file and the laser itself. It is the only exhibitor here selling software that runs a machine rather than software that makes a model.
Cluster D groups the floor's service bureaus, contract manufacturers, post-processing specialists, and analytical-instrument vendors. It is the part of the supply chain a visitor evaluates if their question is not "which printer should I buy?" but "who will I run production with?" or "how will I qualify and inspect what they make?".
The cluster covers a wide commercial range. Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) operators like JLCPCB sit at one extreme of scale, having industrialized rapid quoting and online ordering at PCB-volume economics. Specialty post-processing firms (powder handling, surface finishing, certification) cover the middle. Analytical instrumentation vendors (XRF, XRD, laser measurement) close out the cluster on the quality-control end. JJJvac sits in its own capital-tier slot with $170M raised for vacuum heat-treatment infrastructure, a reminder that "service" in metal AM can mean capital equipment as much as labor.
Visitors should treat this cluster as the operational counterweight to the hardware-heavy A and B clusters. A practical print workflow draws from all three: a system from A or B, feedstock from B's materials side, and at least two or three categories of D-cluster service in the production loop.
Featured profiles · Cluster D
Six exhibitors selected to span the cluster's range: MaaS, analytical instrumentation, powder handling, vacuum heat-treatment, modern service bureaus, and vertical-specific service platforms.
Chinese provider of PCB prototyping, SMT assembly, electronic components, 3D printing, CNC machining, and EDA software through an integrated online platform serving over 8 million engineers globally.
Consumer electronics · Aerospace/automotive · Robotics · Industrial control · Medical devices · +5 more
Investors
Sequoia Capital China · Zhongding Capital (CDH Investments) · China Merchants Venture Capital (CSC Group) · Jianfa Emerging Investment
CEO
Yuan Jiangtao (袁江涛)
Manufacturing-as-a-Service operator that scaled from PCB into broad AM and CNC; the de-facto reference point for low-friction online ordering across the Chinese service-bureau category.
Manufactures ultra-high vacuum heat treatment and sintering furnaces for metal additive manufacturing, enabling precise stress relief and density optimization to achieve aerospace-grade mechanical properties in 3D printed components.
Aerospace · Semiconductors · New Energy · Medical Devices · Industrial Manufacturing
Investors
Matrix Partners China (经纬中国) · Qiming Venture Partners · Hillhouse (高瓴) · Aplus Capital
Industrial vacuum-furnace and heat-treatment systems builder; one of the few Cluster D firms operating at capital-equipment scale rather than service-bureau scale, and the post-processing anchor for any aerospace metal-AM workflow at the show.
Materials characterization and analytical instrumentation manufacturer specializing in X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Raman spectroscopy systems for composition analysis and quality control across aerospace, petrochemical, and industrial applications.
Products
LAN-XPS X1000 (compact and affordable XPS system) · X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers · X-ray diffraction (XRD) systems · Raman spectrometers · +1 more
Verticals
Aerospace · Petrochemical · Materials Research · Environmental Protection · Jewelry & Precious Metals · +5 more
Investors
苏高新集团 (Su Gaoxin Group)
CEO
Du Yaming
Materials characterization and analytical instrumentation for production-grade AM; pairs naturally with the powder feedstock exhibitors in Cluster B for any team closing the loop on quality control.
Develops industrial powder cleaning and recovery systems for metal additive manufacturing, featuring vibration-based removal for complex geometries.
Products
Pro-1500 Powder Cleaning Machine
Verticals
Industrial
Investors
CAS Star · Zhongguancun Science City
CEO
Liu Yayun
Industrial powder cleaning and recovery systems for metal AM; addresses the operations layer most printer demos skip past and that any LPBF buyer inherits at install.
Develops automated 3D scanning systems and reconstruction software for industrial digital twin and additive manufacturing workflows.
Products
BlackBox M Series (Automated Desktop Scanner) · BlackBox Pro (Industrial Grade Scanner) · Handheld Laser Scanners · Feibai 3D Cloud Platform (Reconstruction Software)
Verticals
Aerospace · Automotive · Medical · Cultural Heritage · Education
Investors
Hangzhou High-tech Investment · Zheda Youchuang
CEO
Ru Fangjun
Mid-size service bureau with a strong design-to-part offering for industrial and consumer customers; useful comparison to the much larger JLCPCB on margin structure and turnaround for short-run work.
Develops a full-stack 3D body scanning and AI diagnostic platform that automates the production of custom 3D-printed orthopedic insoles and footwear.
Products
3D Intelligent Body Measurement Mirror · 3D Intelligent Foot Scanner · AI Health Diagnosis Cloud Platform · 3D-Printed Orthopedic Insoles · +1 more
Verticals
Medical · Consumer Retail · Sports Science · Health & Wellness
Investors
Cowin Capital (同创伟业) · Shenzhen Angel FOF (深圳天使母基金)
CEO
Yuan Zhuang (袁壮)
Full-stack body scanning and custom orthopedic insole service; useful to see how AM service is moving from contract bureaus into vertical-specific application platforms.
Cluster E groups end-product manufacturers and application-vertical specialists. Unlike Cluster A (sells the machine) or Cluster D (sells the print service), Cluster E firms sell finished goods or vertical solutions where AM is one production technology among several. Dental, jewelry, aerospace components, construction, ceramics, and consumer goods are the visible verticals.
The cluster is the most heterogeneous of the six and the hardest to compare horizontally. A dental SLA specialist and a ceramic-printing full-stack operator both belong here, but they are not competitive substitutes. For visitors, the cluster is most useful as a vertical-by-vertical exploration: pick the verticals that match your work, walk those booths, and treat the rest as context.
It is also home to some of the floor's most capital-rich operators: Sinornach Diamond at $690M (superhard materials) and ELEGOO at $100M (consumer LCD photopolymer printers, backed by DJI's November 2025 strategic round), with Scantech and Villo Technology alongside as publicly listed firms.
Featured profiles · Cluster E
Six exhibitors selected to span the cluster's vertical breadth: consumer hardware, superhard materials, 3D scanning and metrology, photonics, and industrial robotics.
Founded 2015 · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1001-5000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Polymer AM
Latest round
Series B
Funding raised
$100.0M
A leading Chinese consumer-grade 3D printer manufacturer, operating under the ELEGOO brand, specializing in resin (LCD) and FDM 3D printers, laser engravers, and STEM kits.
Products
Mars series (resin/LCD 3D printers) · Saturn series (large-format resin) · Jupiter series (professional resin) · Neptune series (FDM 3D printers) · +10 more
Consumer 3D-printer maker (LCD resin + FDM) that scaled into a global retail footprint; useful read on how a domestic consumer brand operates an integrated hardware-software-content stack.
Founded 2023 · Zhengzhou, Henan, China · 1001-5000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Multi-Material
Latest round
Corporate Round
Funding raised
$690M
State-owned enterprise formed in 2023 as the superhard materials industry platform of Sinomach Group, covering the full diamond industry chain from raw materials and equipment to functional applications and lab-grown diamond consumer brands.
Products
Raw materials (diamond grit · micropowder · PCD/PCBN composites) · Key equipment (HTHP cubic presses · +16 more
Verticals
Semiconductor · Aerospace and Defense · Automotive · Energy · Tooling and Mold Making · +4 more
Investors
Sinomach Precision Industry Co. · Ltd. (国机精工 · 67%) · Henan New Material Investment Group (河南省新材料投资集团 · +1 more
CEO
Yan Ning (闫宁)
State-owned enterprise (formed 2023) operating in the superhard-materials and diamond-tooling space adjacent to AM; included because the capital scale ($690M) reframes what the application-cluster looks like beyond consumer and dental.
Founded 2015 · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 201-500 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Novel Process
Latest round
IPO
Funding raised
Publicly Traded
China's leading 3D vision digitalization solutions provider and the first 3D scanning company listed on the SSE STAR Market (科创板)
Products
Handheld 3D scanners (KSCAN-E · SIMSCAN-E/S Gen2 · KSCAN-X) · Tracking 3D scanners (NimbleTrack · +11 more
Verticals
Aerospace · Automotive manufacturing · Mold & die · Energy & heavy industry · Rail transit & shipbuilding · +7 more
Investors
达晨财智 (Fortune Capital) · 中证投资 (CITIC Securities Investment) · 杭州海邦 (Haibang Capital) · 银杏谷资本 (Gingko Valley Capital) · +8 more
CEO
王江峰 (Wang Jiangfeng)
Scantech covers handheld, tracking, and automated inspection scanners, which is the measurement layer a printed part meets after the build finishes. First 3D scanning company on the STAR Market, so the booth also reads as a price and capability benchmark for listed-tier metrology.
Founded 2016 · Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · 201-500 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
Metal AM
Latest round
Series C
Funding raised
$14.5M+
Develops AI-powered laser inspection and processing technologies for quality assurance in metal additive manufacturing systems and high-precision industrial applications.
Products
AI-powered laser inspection and processing technologies for quality assurance in metal additive manufacturing systems and high-precision industrial applications.
Verticals
Aerospace · Automotive · Medical · Energy
Investors
CasStar (Zhongke Chuangxing) · Guangzhou Hi-tech Investment · Guangdong Small and Medium Enterprise High-tech Investment · CEC Capital (中芯聚源) · +2 more
CEO
You Deyong (游德勇)
Diligine sells the monitoring layer that watches a melt pool while it is being built, which is where AM quality control is actually moving. Pairs naturally with Scantech, which measures the same part after it cools.
Founded 2017 · Shenzhen (HQ), Foshan (Global Manufacturing Base), Guangdong, China · 501-1000 staff
Value chain
Hardware
Core technology
-
Latest round
IPO
Funding raised
$38.5M
Guangdong Huayan Robotics Co., Ltd. (stock code: 1021.HK) is a Chinese collaborative robot manufacturer specializing in the R&D, production, and application of intelligent collaborative robots for industrial, medical, logistics, education, and service sectors. Formerly known as Han's Robot (大族机器人), the company was incubated by Han's Laser and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in March 2026.
Products
Elfin Series (6-axis collaborative robots · 3-35kg payload) · Elfin-Pro Series (advanced cobots with enhanced precision) · S Series (heavy-load cobots up to 60kg) · +8 more
Verticals
3C Electronics · Automotive · Medical · Metal Processing · Education · +2 more
Investors
Hillhouse Capital (高瓴/HHLRA) · Morgan Stanley · GF Fund (广发基金) · Vertex Venture (祥峰投资) · +5 more
CEO
Wang Guangneng (王光能)
Huayan (HKEX 1021) sells the cobots that load, unload and tend machines. If your question is how a print cell runs unattended overnight, this booth answers it better than any printer vendor on the floor.
Develops 3D printing equipment and manufacturing services integrated with a cloud-based open innovation platform to streamline collaborative design-to-part workflows.
Products
3D printing equipment · 3D printing services · Cloud platform for open innovation
Verticals
Footwear and Apparel · Medical and Dental · Automotive · Industrial Design · Consumer Goods
Investors
Linear Capital · CASStar (中科创星)
CEO
Xu Lizheng (徐立峥)
Lixfab pairs its printers with a cloud ordering layer, so it is one of the few exhibitors where you can see the equipment and the service model that sits on top of it in the same conversation.
Cluster F is the floor's support layer. Fiber-laser optics and galvo scanners (WSX Laser, Leizhi Laser), particle-size analyzers for powder QA (Sympatec), industrial vacuum cleaners and dust extraction for metal-powder handling (Ingmar, LKESS), AC/DC power supplies and industrial connectors (EDAC Power, SVLEC, Wangma Electronics), CT inspection for printed-part QA (Weituo Precision), packaging automation for finished AM parts (Huanlian), and filament-extrusion lines for upstream consumable makers (Hope Plastic Machinery). None of these firms sells an AM system, but every working metal-AM line and every serious polymer-extrusion business depends on a vendor in this cluster. At 44 firms the support layer is materially larger than the entire software cluster (7) and the most useful single number in this brief for sizing how deep the Greater Bay AM ecosystem actually runs in 2026.
This is the walk for system OEMs and large operators evaluating CN-domestic supply for components, instrumentation, and powder handling. Visitors buying a machine or planning a print job will find the relevant procurement targets in Clusters A and B.
Featured profiles · Cluster F
Six exhibitors selected to map the support layer's breadth: powder analytics (Sympatec), industrial laser components (WSX), powder handling and dust extraction (LKESS), packaging automation (Huanlian), upstream filament-extrusion machinery (Hope Plastic Machinery), and laser measurement instruments (Shaoxing Sijiu).
Founded 1984 · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany · 51-200 staff
Value chain
AM-Adjacent Equipment
Core technology
-
Latest round
Bootstrapped
Funding raised
Bootstrapped
Develops modular instruments for particle size and shape analysis (laser diffraction, dynamic image analysis, ultrasonic extinction) in laboratory and process environments, serving powder manufacturing, pharma, chemistry, food, and AM material characterization.
Pharmaceuticals / Life Sciences · Chemistry · Building Materials · Food · Powder Manufacturing · +3 more
CEO
Dr. Sebastian Röthele
German particle-size analyzer specialist (laser diffraction, dynamic image analysis, ultrasonic extinction). Powder QA is a recurring gap for CN metal AM operators; Sympatec is the most established Western analytics vendor on this floor. Their Suzhou rep office signals the firm is committing to the CN-AM customer base. Visit if you operate or sell into LPBF / BJT and need feedstock characterisation tooling that meets international audit standards.
Metal fabrication · Automotive manufacturing · Aerospace · Sheet metal processing · General industrial manufacturing
CEO
Wei Zhongbin (韦忠斌)
Manufacturer of fiber-laser cutting heads, welding heads, and optical components. They sell into both general metal fabrication and AM system OEMs; their booth is the right stop if you are an LPBF / DED system maker (or integrator) evaluating CN-domestic laser optics as an alternative to IPG, II-VI, or Coherent supply.
Industrial hose and ducting manufacturer specialised in material transport and dust extraction for metal AM powder handling. The non-glamorous infrastructure layer that determines whether a metal AM shop can pass safety audits. Visit if you are commissioning a metal powder bay or upgrading dust-collection lines for an existing LPBF site.
Founded 2013 · Dongguan, Guangdong, China · 201-500 staff
Value chain
AM-Adjacent Equipment
Core technology
-
Latest round
Bootstrapped
Funding raised
Undisclosed
Chinese manufacturer of automated packaging lines, cartoning machines, case erectors, labeling machines, and bagging machines for food, pharmaceutical, and daily chemical industries.
Products
Automated packaging lines (custom) · Cartoning machines (servo-driven · up to 200 boxes/min) · Case erectors (airplane box · +11 more
Verticals
Food & Beverage · Pharmaceutical & Chemical · Daily Chemical · Electronics · Apparel & Textile · +4 more
CEO
陈胜飞 (Chen Shengfei)
Automated cartoning, case-erecting, and labelling lines built for industrial finished-goods flow. Relevant for service bureaus and consumer-AM brands shipping above prototype volume: a Bambu-scale consumer printer maker shipping 10k+ units per month, or a service bureau running an SLS or LPBF print farm whose output volume has outgrown manual packing. The booth answers a question that only shows up after an operator has scaled past the prototype stage.
Founded 2017 · Foshan, Guangdong, China · 51-200 staff
Value chain
AM-Adjacent Equipment
Core technology
-
Latest round
Bootstrapped
Funding raised
Undisclosed
Chinese manufacturer of plastic extrusion machinery including 3D printer filament extrusion lines, medical tubing extruders, pipe/profile/sheet extruders, and auxiliary equipment.
Products
3D Printer Filament Extrusion Line (HPJX-3DPE-01) · Medical Tube Extruders (precision IV tubes · tracheal tubes · multi-lumen · +16 more
Verticals
3D Printing (filament production) · Medical Devices (tubing/catheters) · Construction (pipe/profile) · Packaging (sheet/board) · Industrial Manufacturing.
CEO
陈智冲 (Chen Zhichong)
Plastic extrusion machinery including specialised 3D printer filament extrusion lines. They sell to the upstream: the filament makers who supply Bambu Lab, Creality, ELEGOO and the wider polymer printer base. Visit if you are a polymer feedstock entrant evaluating CN equipment for a new filament factory, or a consumer-AM brand vertically integrating into your own consumables.
Develops and manufactures laser measurement instruments (laser calipers, diameter gauges, thickness gauges) for quality control in wire, cable, optical fiber, and 3D printer consumables industries.
Wire and cable · Optical fiber · Aluminum-plastic composite pipe · 3D printer consumables · Steel/aluminum/copper belt · +3 more
Investors
Innoangel Fund · ZJU Joint Innovation Investment
CEO
Sun Jianping (孙建平)
Sijiu builds the laser calipers and diameter gauges that filament and wire producers use for in-line dimensional control. It is upstream of every consumable on this floor, which is exactly what Cluster F is for.
Ten exhibitors on the 2026 floor are headquartered outside mainland China: nine international exhibitors and one exhibitor headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China. All ten appear in their clusters' directories earlier in this brief and are profiled here for direct comparison. With the floor weighted toward mainland China-headquartered exhibitors, these presences show which corridors of AM are actively engaging with the Greater Bay Area.
Indigenous 3D concrete printing (3DCP) technology platform with vertically integrated hardware (robotic printers, nozzles) and concrete admixtures, automating 80% of construction processes to reduce lead times from 18+ months to weeks while enabling mass-customized, non-rectilinear structures at 40-60% cost reduction.
India's indigenous 3D concrete printing platform; the show's only construction-AM specialist and a window into how vertical-AM industrializes outside the Chinese supply chain.
US-registered 3D printer and materials supplier (operating as Sunshape) offering FGF, FDM, and resin 3D printers alongside pellets, filaments, and dental/jewelry resins for industrial, prototyping, and healthcare applications.
US-registered polymer-printer and materials brand (operating as Sunshape); a read on how overseas-registered brands route consumer and dental AM products through the regional supply chain.
Singapore-based sales office of CurTec, a Dutch manufacturer of high-performance plastic screw-top drums, pails, and jars for pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food ingredient, and additive manufacturing powder packaging.
Singapore sales arm of the Dutch high-performance packaging maker; relevant for feedstock producers evaluating moisture-safe powder and filament packaging.
SAMSAM Co., Ltd. is a South Korean additive manufacturing company that develops and manufactures high-speed 3D printing filaments and operates a professional 3D printing service bureau with over 100 Bambu Lab printers.
South Korean filament maker and 3D-printing service bureau; the floor's only Korean exhibitor and a cross-border read on the Korean polymer-AM supply chain.
An AI-native 3D generative platform that enables users to transform text prompts and images into high-quality 3D models and physical products through a 'prompt-to-product' workflow.
The floor's anchor for AI-driven 3D generative workflows; pairs naturally with the domestic AI software firms in Cluster C for a side-by-side tooling read.
Nanoe offers industrial solutions for 3D ceramic and metal printing, providing a complete ecosystem including advanced debinding and sintering equipment.
French specialist in debinding and sintering systems for ceramic and metal AM; useful for visitors evaluating post-print densification workflows beyond the Cluster D analytical layer.
Patented Sinter-Plate filter media and gas-tight dust collection systems designed for additive manufacturing metal powder production, part processing, and post-processing; operates up to 450°C with <0.1 mg/m³ separation efficiency.
German filtration specialist whose sinter-plate dust-collection systems sit in the metal-powder safety layer; complements the domestic powder-handling vendors in Cluster F.
R&D company based in Hong Kong SAR, China, specializing in high technology solutions and participating in the Greater Bay Area mold-making and additive manufacturing exhibition ecosystem.
R&D company registered in Hong Kong SAR, China, working across mold-making and AM technologies.
Develops high-performance beam scanning control systems and galvanometers for laser-based additive manufacturing, emphasizing industry-leading thermal stability and high-speed precision.
Canadian developer of beam-scanning control systems and galvanometers for laser AM; relevant for OEMs comparing scan-head supply beyond the domestic vendors in Cluster F.
Develops modular instruments for particle size and shape analysis (laser diffraction, dynamic image analysis, ultrasonic extinction) in laboratory and process environments, serving powder manufacturing, pharma, chemistry, food, and AM material characterization.
German particle-size and shape analysis instrument maker; the reference vendor for powder QA on a floor where metal-powder quality is a recurring conversation.
The nine international exhibitors tell a small story by themselves. Their presence reads as a mix of software (Meshy, US), vertical applications where local manufacturing is itself the strategic asset (Tvasta, IN), overseas-registered polymer brands routed through the regional supply chain (Aura3D, US; SAMSAM 3D, KR), and supporting layers visitors source globally regardless of show floor: beam-scanning optics (Precision Scan, CA), powder analytics (Sympatec, DE), powder-handling filtration (Herding Filtertechnik, DE), feedstock packaging (CurTec, SG), and debinding / sintering systems for ceramic and metal AM (Nanoe, FR). Hongkong High Technology R&D adds a Hong Kong SAR, China-based R&D presence. Direct hardware-and-printer entrants from outside the region remain rare in 2026.
Visitor Playbook
Ten themed walks for visitors who arrive with a single category of question. Each route lists the exhibitor with its booth number from the organizer's 27 July list, so a walking order can be planned before arrival; the same booth numbers appear against every firm in the cluster directories.
Industrial metal AM tour. For visitors evaluating LPBF or metal binder-jetting for production. Walk: Eplus3D (A21) · Hanbang Laser (D61) · Xi'an Aerospace Additive Manufacturing (A25) · Han's Laser (D46) · Farsoon Technologies (B01) · Sailong Additive (B70) · BLT (C01). Add Vilory (E07) and GRAMT (A24) for the powder-supply side.
Aerospace AM tour. For aerospace primes and Tier-1 suppliers scoping the CN domestic supply chain. Walk: Xi'an Aerospace Additive Manufacturing (A25) · Farsoon Technologies (B01) · GRAMT (A24) · Hanbang Laser (D61) · Eplus3D (A21) · JJJvac (B111) (for the vacuum heat-treat layer).
Consumer / prosumer polymer tour. For visitors mapping the desktop and industrial FFF field. Walk: Bambu Lab (D121) · Creality (D111) · ELEGOO (E113) · Snapmaker (C91) · Flashforge (D162) · Prismlab (E77) · Sailner 3D (B104). Add Cluster B's filament and resin specialists by walking the cluster row.
Industrial polymer powder-bed tour. For visitors comparing SLS and MJF production systems. Walk: HP (C31) · Farsoon Technologies (B01) · TPM3D Yingpu (C81) · Sailner 3D (B104). Pair the system stops with the polymer-powder and service firms in Cluster B.
Materials and feedstock tour. For visitors evaluating supply security for AM feedstock. Walk: Vilory (E07) · GRAMT (A24) · Zhongyuan Advanced Materials (C21) · Polyful (E151) · Zhongti New Materials (A15). Spans metal powders + polymer feedstock.
Service and production tour. For visitors evaluating contract manufacturing, MaaS, or post-processing partners. Walk: JLCPCB (D78) · BlackBox (E57) · LANScientific (B114) · Beijing Xihao Technology (B102) · Shaoxing Sijiu Technology (B115) · JJJvac (B111) · Xianku (B152). Pair with Cluster A or B printer makers you want service-bureau quotes against.
Software and AI workflow tour. For visitors building or evaluating AM software stacks. Walk: Meshy (E121) · DreamTech (F23) · Deemos (E190) · Hitem3D (C121) · Hexagon Software Technology (E85) · CGModel (B134) · JCZ Technology (C191). Allocate equal time to Cluster A and B hardware booths, where most of the workflow tooling actually ships.
Niche verticals tour (dental, construction, ceramics). For visitors chasing a single vertical thread. Dental: QuickDemos (C166), plus adjacent SLA vendors Prismlab (E77) and Sailner 3D (B104). Construction: Tvasta (D71), the show's only construction-AM specialist; one stop deep, but the stop is unique. Ceramics and superhard materials: Guangdong Junjing Technology (B72) · Key Material (F15) · Sinornach Diamond (A30).
Component and instrumentation tour (Cluster F). For system OEMs and large operators evaluating CN-domestic supply for lasers, powder QA, environmental control, and inspection. Walk: WSX Laser (E91) (cutting / welding heads) · Leizhi Laser (B58) (galvo scanners) · Sympatec (A29) (powder analytics, DE) · Cubic Sensor and Instrument (A38) (process-gas sensors, in Cluster B) · LKESS (A28) (powder-handling hoses) · Ingmar (B126) (industrial vacuum / dust extraction) · Weituo Precision (A35) (CT inspection) · JJJvac (B111) (vacuum heat-treatment, in Cluster D).
Outside-mainland exhibitor tour. For visitors comparing the nine international exhibitors and the Hong Kong SAR participant. Walk: Meshy (E121) (US, AI 3D) · Aura3D (B158) (US, polymer printers and materials) · Tvasta (D71) (IN, construction) · SAMSAM 3D (B129) (KR, filaments and service) · CurTec Asia Pacific (E59) (SG, packaging) · Precision Scan (E63) (CA, beam-scanning components) · Nanoe (B116) (FR, debinding and sintering) · Herding Filtertechnik (B130) (DE, powder filtration) · Sympatec (A29) (DE, powder analytics). Add Hongkong High Technology R&D (F07) (Hong Kong SAR, China; AM R&D).
Glossary
For visitors new to AM process families and category jargon.
LPBF / PBF-LB · Laser Powder Bed Fusion. Selectively melts metal powder layer by layer with a laser; the dominant production-grade metal-AM process.
FFF / FDM · Fused Filament Fabrication. Heats and extrudes polymer filament. Most consumer and many industrial polymer printers.
SLA · Stereolithography. Cures liquid resin with a laser, layer by layer.
DLP · Digital Light Processing. Cures resin with a projected light pattern; faster than SLA at small build volumes.
SLS · Selective Laser Sintering. Sinters polymer (and sometimes ceramic) powder with a laser. No support structures required.
MJF · Multi Jet Fusion. HP's powder-bed polymer process; competes with SLS for industrial polymer parts.
DED · Directed Energy Deposition. Melts metal wire or powder feed while moving across a substrate. Used for large-part metal AM and repair.
Binder Jetting · Sprays binder onto metal or ceramic powder; sintered afterwards. High throughput, lower part density.
PolyJet · Jets photopolymer droplets that are UV-cured. Capable of multi-material and full-color in a single build.
3DCP · 3D Concrete Printing. Extruded cementitious material at building scale.
MaaS · Manufacturing-as-a-Service. Online-ordered contract manufacturing; AM is one of several processes most MaaS operators offer.
Value-chain position · An AMPulse taxonomy field: Hardware / Materials / Software / Service / Post-Processing / Application.
Methodology
Source data. This analysis is based on exhibitor information supplied by Formnext Asia Shenzhen as of 27 July 2026. The report uses the organizer-confirmed represented brands and booth numbers for Bambu Lab and HP. Late additions or withdrawals after the snapshot date are not reflected.
Coverage. Of the 305 confirmed exhibitors, 300 were placed into one of six value-chain clusters; 5 appear in the ungrouped list at the end of the brief (three firms with database rows but sparse category metadata at the snapshot date, plus two for which the available public information was insufficient for classification). 303 of the 305 confirmed exhibitors (99.3%) are covered with at least a database row, and 300 (98.4%) carry the taxonomy fields needed for cluster placement; logos shown across the cluster directories are real where available (231 of 300), and the remaining 69 firms appear as a monogram tile.
Cluster assignment. Each exhibitor in the database was placed into one of six value-chain clusters by an automated rule based on the firm's value-chain position (Hardware, Materials, Software, Service, Post-Processing, Application, AM-Adjacent Equipment) and process-family tagging. The same rule powers the AMPulse Asia AM 100 annual report. Cluster F (AM-Adjacent Equipment) groups firms whose primary product is an industrial component or instrument that AM operators buy: laser sources and optics, particle-size and gas analyzers, vacuum and dust-extraction equipment, IR pyrometry and CT inspection, industrial connectors and power supplies, packaging automation for finished AM parts.
Process-family attribution. A single exhibitor may touch multiple AM processes (e.g. Farsoon Technologies ships both polymer SLS and metal LPBF lines). The process-family chart counts each firm once per process it materially serves, so the totals exceed the 300-firm classified count. Attribution combines structured process tags where present and a fallback read of the firm's description and product-portfolio fields where they are not.
Industry-vertical normalization. Vertical labels vary substantially across firms ("aerospace", "aviation", "space" all map to one bucket). The chart groups these into a curated set of named verticals; generic industrial-manufacturing mentions and labels that match no curated bucket are collapsed into catch-all buckets ('Industrial Manufacturing', 'Other') that the chart omits.
Capital aggregation. Disclosed-capital figures are floors. Per-firm totals combine company-reported numbers, primary press, and filings; RMB-only disclosures convert at the 2023-2026 average rate. Firms with "Undisclosed", missing, or non-parseable values are excluded from the concentration analysis. Publicly listed exhibitors whose scale is not expressed as venture funding (Han's Laser, Scantech, Villo Technology) are recorded as listed rather than with a disclosed total, and are excluded from the concentration analysis; the top of the disclosed table (JLCPCB, Sinornach Diamond) reflects platform- and conglomerate-scale businesses rather than AM-dedicated capital, and the cluster commentary calls this out where it matters.
Spotlight selection. Each cluster features a curated subset of exhibitors; Cluster B includes eight profiles; Cluster C features six of its seven firms. Selection combines notability and data-completeness signals with editorial diversity rules: spread across value-chain roles, avoid stacking the same process family, preserve any geographic outlier, preserve at least one capital-tier outlier per cluster. The visitor-facing note ("why this exhibitor warrants a stop") appears on each card. Spotlight selection is AMPulse editorial; the show organizer did not select or influence it.
No-ranking position. The composite score that generated the spotlight candidate pool is not published, and nothing in this brief is ordered by it.
News pulse. The "Recent activity" sections at the end of each cluster show articles from the AMPulse daily news index over the last 120 days that touch any company in that cluster. The index covers English- and Chinese-language AM trade press; visitors should treat the items as conversation starters with the exhibitors involved, not as comprehensive coverage.
Editorial independence. This is an independent AMPulse analysis of the Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026 exhibitor cohort. The organizer received a pre-release draft to review factual information about the event and confirm the participation status of exhibitors referenced in the report. All classifications, selections, commentary and conclusions are AMPulse’s own.
Ungrouped exhibitors
The following 5 confirmed exhibitors could not be placed into a cluster from the available snapshot. Some have AMPulse database rows but with sparse AM-taxonomy fields (pending enrichment); others were not yet covered at the snapshot date. Appearing here reflects a data gap, nothing about the firm.
#4Shenzhen Fujia Appliance Co Ltd深圳市福佳电器有限公司D117
In the AMPulse database; AM-taxonomy fields too sparse to place at the snapshot date.
#254深圳市芯连心电子科技有限公司B141
In the AMPulse database; AM-taxonomy fields too sparse to place at the snapshot date.
#263汕头市睿达丰科技有限公司A40
In the AMPulse database; AM-taxonomy fields too sparse to place at the snapshot date.
#271浙江雷丰新材料科技有限公司F45
The company could not be classified from the public information available at the snapshot date.
#280广东中广研增材制造有限公司E159
The company could not be classified from the public information available at the snapshot date.
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Lee, S. (2026). Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026 Visitor Intelligence Brief. AMPulse Data Reports. https://www.ampulse.online/reports/fnsz-2026-visitor-brief
