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In Hall 15 at Formnext Asia Shenzhen 2026, consumer 3D printing was everywhere, from toys, figurines, and character models to thousand-machine production farms. Green-laser companies displayed copper cold plates for AI servers. Several booths showed printed shoes and robot parts. Around them were Chinese suppliers of scanners, lasers, monitoring systems, powder-handling equipment, CT inspection and filament-production lines.
Taken together, the floor made one point: China’s manufacturing base can assemble equipment, materials, software and production capacity around a promising application with remarkable speed.
The organizer counted 330 exhibitors across 20,000 square meters, the largest edition of Formnext Asia Shenzhen so far. In my July pre-show mapping of 305 confirmed exhibitors, 4