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• Walk into TCT Asia 2026, and the first impression is density. More than 55,000 square meters across Halls 7.1 and 8.1 at Shanghai’s National Exhibition and Convention Center, over 550...
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Walk into TCT Asia 2026, and the first impression is density. More than 55,000 square meters across Halls 7.1 and 8.1 at Shanghai’s National Exhibition and Convention Center, over 550 exhibitors, and more than 35,000 expected visitors. That scale reflects an additive manufacturing market that no longer feels experimental; it feels commercial and in motion. China’s decade-long industrial policy push, from “Made in China 2025” onward, has already reshaped sectors from EVs to AI infrastructure. At TCT Asia 2026, additive manufacturing looked unmistakably like the next chapter of that story.
What stood out most was not that Chinese firms can now build competitive machines (that is old news). It was the shift from machine-centric competition to application-centric competition. Many exhibitors