China-based additive manufacturing media platform 3Dzyk has announced the full results of the China 3D Printing Industry Awards 2025 — the platform’s first-ever awards initiative. Drawing more than 10,000 votes over two weeks, the program evaluated products across equipment, materials, and ecosystem categories based on innovation, practicality, efficiency, impact, and compatibility. Each category produced one top award recipient and one honorable mention. It should be noted that this program targets AM industry professionals and insiders, and is not a general consumer-facing evaluation.
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China 3D Printing Industry Awards 2025 — Equipment Category Results
Best Desktop FFF 3D Printer: Snapmaker U1
Built around a 4-nozzle auto-switching system, the U1 transforms multi-color, multi-material printing from a complex manual process into an automated workflow. Its 5-second head swap design and reduced material waste significantly improve production and delivery efficiency for multi-color prints, helping usher in a new era of multi-nozzle printing adoption.
Honorable Mention: Bambu Lab H2D
Best Desktop LCD 3D Printer: Anycubic Photon P1
Built on a constant-temperature filament chamber, auto-leveling, and AI detection, the Photon P1 combines dual-zone independent printing with high-viscosity resin compatibility to deliver an integrated equipment-material-application solution. It provides a stable and repeatable production path for complex applications such as footwear and elastic functional parts.
Honorable Mention: Creality HALOT-X1
Best Desktop Industrial 3D Printer: FastForm DeskFab X1
In a desktop-sized footprint, the DeskFab X1 achieves scan-to-print metal 3D printing for dental applications, dramatically reducing the barriers to clinic adoption and shortening delivery times. It was recognized for advancing the shift of dental metal AM from centralized processing to point-of-care production.
Honorable Mention: Zongheng3D SUPER MAKER SLS1518
Best Industrial 3D Printer (Metal): BLT-S1025
With a build height of 2,500 mm, a monolithic high-rigidity forming cylinder, and a configuration of up to 32 lasers, the BLT-S1025 achieves high-efficiency, integrated printing of ultra-large parts. It pushes the boundaries of large-format metal AM and contributes to accelerating large-scale applications in aerospace and other sectors.
Honorable Mention: Eplus3D EP-M300L
Best Industrial 3D Printer (Non-Metal): Farsoon Flight HT601P-4
Combining high-efficiency sintering with a continuous manufacturing architecture, the HT601P-4 achieves large-format, high-efficiency forming within a constrained footprint. Its design — prioritizing stability, continuity, and operability — elevates polymer industrialization from equipment capability to a full production system.
Honorable Mention: KOCEL AJS 3200
Materials and Ecosystem Category Results
Best Plastic Filament: Polymaker HT-PLA
HT-PLA achieves 150°C heat resistance without annealing, while maintaining the printability and consistency that PLA users expect. It significantly extends the engineering ceiling of PLA and carries high adoption value as a material upgrade for the broadest possible user base.
Honorable Mention: Vilory PEBA
Best Resin Material: Zhongke FlexOne Single-Component Elastic Resin Series
The FlexOne series overcomes the barriers of two-component systems by offering a single-component elastic solution that dramatically reduces mixing errors and consistency risks. It contributes to full-shoe-grade high-efficiency manufacturing in coordination with high-speed photopolymerization platforms.
Honorable Mention: JAMG HE single-component foamed resin
Best Metal Powder: Vilory T70X High-Temperature Titanium Alloy Powder
Designed for large-format LPBF and high-temperature operating environments, the T70X addresses the long-standing challenges of high-temperature performance degradation and formability in conventional titanium alloys. It fills a critical gap in domestic high-temperature titanium alloy AM and offers high entry barriers and value density.
Honorable Mention: CNPC-Al0407 (Zhongti New Materials)
Best Component / Part: Han’s Photon 500W Fiber Laser
The “Tiangong” series 500W fiber laser (14 μm) achieves more refined energy control through high power density and small-core output. As a critical light source for precision processing such as metal 3D printing, it demonstrates broad adoption potential in aerospace, medical, and other advanced applications.
Honorable Mention: Sangreen AMS Heater
Best 3D Scanner: SHINING 3D FreeScan Omni
With a fully wireless integrated design, the FreeScan Omni enables standalone scanning and inspection without a PC, significantly compressing on-site workflows while achieving both high accuracy and high speed. It delivers particular direct value for quality inspection in industrial settings and efficiency gains in mobile applications.
Honorable Mention: Sikan Technology KSCAN-X
AM Insight Asia Perspective
It is worth noting that the China 3D Printing Industry Awards 2025 explicitly targets AM industry professionals and insiders — not general consumers. 3Dzyk has described the program as aimed at “professionals and those within the AM ecosystem,” and this distinction matters when interpreting the results.
Had the awards been designed for a broader consumer audience, brands with strong global name recognition — such as Bambu Lab — would likely have ranked higher across multiple categories. The results as published reflect technical evaluation within the Chinese AM industry’s professional community, and should be read accordingly.
Viewed in that context, the breadth of this year’s award recipients signals the increasing sophistication of China’s AM ecosystem — spanning dental chairside metal printing, high-temperature titanium alloys for aerospace, and point-of-care production tools. These results reflect an industry that is increasingly competing on genuine technical differentiation, not price alone.
AM Insight Asia will continue to track the commercial progress of these award-winning products as they enter broader Asian markets in 2026.
