What Happens When 15,000 Desktop 3D Printers Become a Factory?

When I first travelled to Formnext Shenzhen in 2023 I saw a familiar pattern, the show tells you what China’s additive-manufacturing industry wants to sell. Go outside the show and you can start finding out what is actually being made. At Huafast’s Shenzhen operation, 5,600 Bambu Lab machines form part of a 15,000-printer production network.…