Introduction：Because the 3C consumer electronics field presents an explosive market demand for 3D printing, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, BYD's supplier Kangrui new materials, with revenue of 2.47 billion yuan in 2023, is going to get involved in 3D printing! At the end of last year, a Huawei supplier in Guangzhou enhanced its 3D printing capabilities by acquiring a metal 3D printer manufacturer.

Gu Wenyu, member of the Standing Committee of Jiangyin Municipal Committee, deputy secretary of the CPC Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Jiangyin High-Tech Zone, said at the signing ceremony that Jiangyin High-Tech Zone has been actively implementing the strategy of innovation drive in recent years, with a focus on supporting the development of high-end equipment industry, especially the 3D printing industry. For enterprises such as Kangrui and SanDi Technology, Hi-Tech Zone will provide all-round support to accelerate project construction and jointly promote the vigorous development of the industry.

Figure: Zhu Wei, Chairman of Jiangsu Kangrui New Material Science and Technology Co., Ltd. introduces the project development (left); Zong Guisheng, Chairman of Beijing SANDI Technology Co., Ltd. introduces the industrial cooperation (right)

SANDI Technology and Kangrui New Material are both active practitioners of new quality productivity.

Over the years, SANDI Technology has been actively promoting the development strategy of "3D Empowerment" and "3D3C" with the vision of "Starting from 3D printing, upgrading manufacturing with digital technology". Under the guidance of this strategy, SANDI has not only realized its own technological innovation and breakthrough, but also empowered many casting and injection molding enterprises, injecting new vitality into the production of 3C products.

With an annual production capacity of over 20,000 tons of precision metal materials, Kangrui New Materials focuses on providing high-precision, high-performance precision metal materials of specific materials and structures for downstream customers in the field of precision manufacturing. The company's products include metal laminated composites (titanium-aluminum composites, steel-aluminum composites, copper-aluminum composites), precision metal profiles, and precision metal polished rods, fine wires, and other multi-morphic precision metal materials, which are used in consumer electronics, automotive parts, industrial equipment parts, medical equipment and other applications.

With its advanced adhesive jet 3D printing technology, SANDY Technology has successfully realized the mass customized production of casting and injection molding, providing a brand new solution for the manufacturing of complex parts, empowering the development of casting and injection molding enterprises, and providing rapid manufacturing services through more than ten subsidiaries distributed in China. At the same time, SANDI Technology utilizes its nearly one hundred patented laser 3D printing technologies to enter the application field of 3D printing in 3C products, obtains the first domestic registration certificate of 3D printing customized titanium alloy hearing aids for medical devices, and quickly cuts into the field of manufacturing through the cooperation of communication terminal parts.

The relevant person in charge said that this cooperation with Kangrui new materials, first of all, to develop and produce 3C special 3D printing equipment, to realize 3D printing intelligent, automated, low-cost mass production of communication terminal parts; and then promoted to other applications, such as new energy vehicles and so on.
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If Apple, Huawei, Samsung, Xiaomi, Glory, OPPO, vivo, these 3C big manufacturers really adopt 3D printing process in large quantities, it is difficult for domestic manufacturers to be able to withstand so many production tasks at present. It may take hundreds or even thousands of metal 3D printers, printing titanium alloy powder up to a thousand tons/year, to meet the delivery of high-volume parts.

Relevant institutions predict that within 2030, the largest application market of 3D printing technology will appear in 3C consumer electronics/automotive and other civilian areas, up to the level of hundreds of billions of dollars, more than the current military defense market, presenting several billions or even tens of billions of dollars of level of the application of the enterprise.