{"id":70551,"date":"2019-07-29T15:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/aerospace\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so.3dm"},"modified":"2019-07-29T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:19:49","slug":"3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing &#038; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dpsp-content-top\" class=\"dpsp-content-wrapper dpsp-shape-rectangular dpsp-size-medium dpsp-has-spacing dpsp-has-buttons-count dpsp-show-on-mobile dpsp-button-style-1\">\n<ul class=\"dpsp-networks-btns-wrapper dpsp-networks-btns-content dpsp-networks-btns-share dpsp-column-auto\">\n<li><span class=\"dpsp-network-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"dpsp-network-label-wrapper\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"dpsp-network-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"dpsp-network-label-wrapper\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"dpsp-network-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"dpsp-network-label-wrapper\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"dpsp-network-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"dpsp-network-label-wrapper\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing, and additive manufacturing in particular, is that it will significantly contribute to the reshoring of manufacturing activities to the West, most notably pulling back production. However, the news this week that Stratasys is moving into China following an exclusive deal with Aurora and RNCG\u2019s announcement that it is launching a TCT Asia event in Shanghai November of next year, means the messages may seem a tad mixed.<\/p>\n<p>The Stratasys deal with Aurora, still not announced by Stratasys itself, but by Aurora and therefore published widely across Chinese and American news sites, is about widespread distribution and retail of 3D printers across China. Aurora, a Taiwanese company, has been operating in China since 1993 and is dominant in the electronics and office supplies market \u2014 this is a savvy move by Stratasys.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will see the company\u2019s mid-range 3D printers \u2014 they call them the \u201cIdea line\u201d of 3D printers \u2014 essentially the Mojo, and the larger uPrint SE and uPrint SE Plus variants, enter the Chinese market via Aurora&#8217;s multiple sales channels. These printers are in the US$10,000\u201320,000 price range. No Makerbot or Fortus machines. Fortus would never retail well through these channels and Makerbot has too many local competitors. What is surprising is that there are no Objet machines. Connex, like Fortus, wouldn\u2019t retail well at this level but I think the lower-end Polyjet platforms would? Maybe that\u2019s one of the wrinkles!<\/p>\n<p>Going back to the savvy move by Stratasys \u2014 I think it would be hard to deny that China is playing catch-up with the US &amp; Europe when it comes to 3D printing technologies both in terms of development and adoption. There has been a flurry of clones of entry level 3D printers coming from China over the last 6-12 months, which is standard patter, most of the tech is open source and it\u2019s (relatively) easy to do. But on an industrial scale \u2014 not so much. This goes back to the history of the 3D printing industry, and the years of R&amp;D that have gone before \u2014 the academic, the industrial and the cross over between the two. Recent news headlines have also pointed to the awakening of the Chinese to the potential of the tech and the multiple billions of dollars now being allocated to technology development and adoption, not to mention the road map(s) for doing so. So why on earth wouldn\u2019t the big 3D printing companies or the events organisers \u2014 like Stratasys \/ RNCG \u2014 want a piece of that. It\u2019s a global market after all.<\/p>\n<p>So, while we are only talking about prototyping machines here, looking ahead to manufacturing developments I think what we are looking at is much more of a global village model, based on localised manufacture. I was only taking about this at TCT, ironically with Avi Reichental, in that this is likely where it is all heading \u2014 people produce what they need, where they need it (whether they do it themselves or via a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party is a whole other debate). What I hadn\u2019t considered then, but have now, is that they should use the best tools to do it \u2014 even if they are not, yet, produced locally.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all still a bit messy, but you can\u2019t deny it\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing, and additive manufacturing in particular, is that it will significantly contribute to the reshoring of manufacturing activities to the West, most notably pulling back production. However, the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3D Printing &amp; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So? - FacFox News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3D Printing &amp; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FacFox News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"edi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"edi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"edi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30c6618bf20fcdd6af222ac673dfd857\"},\"headline\":\"3D Printing &#038; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\"},\"wordCount\":587,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Aerospace\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\",\"name\":\"3D Printing & the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So? - FacFox News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"3D Printing &#038; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"FacFox News\",\"description\":\"News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"FacFox News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/facfox-news-homepg-logo-200px.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/facfox-news-homepg-logo-200px.png\",\"width\":200,\"height\":55,\"caption\":\"FacFox News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30c6618bf20fcdd6af222ac673dfd857\",\"name\":\"edi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"edi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/author\/edi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"3D Printing & the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So? - FacFox News","description":"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"3D Printing & the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?","og_description":"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,","og_url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/","og_site_name":"FacFox News","article_published_time":"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00","author":"edi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"edi","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/"},"author":{"name":"edi","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30c6618bf20fcdd6af222ac673dfd857"},"headline":"3D Printing &#038; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?","datePublished":"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/"},"wordCount":587,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Aerospace"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/","url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/","name":"3D Printing & the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So? - FacFox News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-07-29T07:19:49+00:00","description":"Looking at the global 3D printing map there is currently a conundrum that at first glance seems puzzling. One of the oft quoted benefits of 3D printing,","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/3d-printing-the-chinese-factor-still-unclear-but-slightly-less-so\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"3D Printing &#038; the Chinese Factor \u2014 Still Unclear, but Slightly Less So?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/","name":"FacFox News","description":"News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#organization","name":"FacFox News","url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/facfox-news-homepg-logo-200px.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/facfox-news-homepg-logo-200px.png","width":200,"height":55,"caption":"FacFox News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30c6618bf20fcdd6af222ac673dfd857","name":"edi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f64f2d9574372e5e27ea0251aee0b353f2ac65df22b55672ae03a41a20cbbbd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"edi"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/facfox.com\/news"],"url":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/author\/edi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}