TCT Shenzhen – South China 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Exhibition 2026Shenzhen 3D Printing Expo: Dates & Visitor Guide

What is TCT Shenzhen – South China 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Exhibition?

TCT Shenzhen is the South China spin-off of TCT Asia, the Shanghai 3D-printing show that grew out of the British TCT brand and arrived in China in 2015. Its organiser, Globus Rapid News, is a joint venture between the UK publisher Rapid News Publications and a Shanghai exhibition company. TCT Asia is a broad industrial event. The Shenzhen show is deliberately narrower: it looks at how additive manufacturing is used in the Greater Bay Area's own industries, namely consumer electronics, moulds and tooling, jewellery and dental and medical work, and it also serves buyers from southwest China and Southeast Asia. The organiser's archive lists Shenzhen editions in 2019 and 2025, and the 2026 show fills Hall 15 at Shenzhen World.

The 2026 online exhibitor directory lists about 240 companies, and they cover the whole chain. On the machine side there are resin and powder-bed systems such as Formlabs (SLA and SLS printers), Shenzhen's Jinshi 3D, Nanjing's Zhongke Yuchen Laser for metal additive and laser cladding, and Shanghai Yisu Laser for printed mould inserts. Materials are well represented: Polymaker filaments, Beifeng and AVIMETAL metal powders, Boli resins, and Scalmalloy aluminium through its Chinese licensee. Shenzhen is a global base for desktop printers and consumables, so you will also see many filament, resin and pellet suppliers selling into export markets.

Visitors are product designers, prototyping and tooling engineers, service bureaus, dental labs, jewellery makers and a growing crowd of makers and small brands. The talks in 2026 reflect local industry. The TCT Shenzhen Summit has tracks on 3D printing in digital medicine, on low-altitude aviation and commercial space, and on thermal management for electronics, including printed cold plates. There is also an AI plus 3D printing smart-manufacturing forum, a Greater Bay Area "going global" forum on selling to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and the TCT Introducing stage, where about 30 companies launch new products.

The show also has a consumer-creator side. The 3D Genius Hub hosts Maker Talk sessions with Chinese designers and overseas YouTubers, which makes it one of the more approachable trade fairs for a curious expat maker.

If you are designing hardware in Shenzhen, TCT is a quick way to find printing partners, compare materials and meet the companies that make much of the world's desktop 3D-printing gear.