Chinese 3D Printer OEM Targeting Market for Tiny Metal Parts Closes Pre-Series A Round

Earlier in the year, a consortium that includes China’s BLT announced a major breakthrough in using a high-precision, liquid metal UV 3D printing process to upgrade the hinge for Chinese smartphone maker OPPO’s foldable Find N6 phone. Around the same time, another leading Chinese OEM in the metal AM market, Farsoon, announced that it was using its proprietary Fine Spot Laser PBF method to consistently print parts with layer thicknesses as low as 10 micrometers (µm). These included parts from copper, a capability which Farsoon is leveraging for markets including data center thermal management solutions.

Now, a company founded in May 2024, Suzhou Dewu Technology Co., Ltd. (Dewu Technology), targeting the same market for ultra-high-resolution, tiny metal parts, has announced the closure of a