en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 11, the 2026 Nonferrous Metal Additive Manufacturing High-End Application Development Conference was held in Chizhou, Anhui Province. The conference was hosted by the China Nonferrous Metals Fabrication Industry Association and the People's Government of Guichi District, and co-organized by the Chizhou High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chizhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and the Chizhou Copper-Based New Materials Industry Association. It focused on the critical juncture of transitioning nonferrous metal additive manufacturing from technological breakthroughs to large-scale application, exploring industry development pathways and prospects.
Fan Shunke, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and Chairman of the China Nonferrous Metals Fabrication Industry Association, stated in his address that additive manufacturing is a vital frontier for new quality productive forces, playing a key role in promoting intelligent, green, and integrated development in manufacturing. Nonferrous metal additive manufacturing is the mainstream of metal additive manufacturing and a key technology supporting national strategic fields such as defense, new energy, and biomedical sectors. In recent years, China's nonferrous metal additive manufacturing industry has made significant progress: the material system is increasingly refined, with aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloy powders and high-performance copper alloy powders for 3D printing achieving international leadership, and TC4 titanium alloy powders achieving complete self-sufficiency; equipment levels have been upgraded, with increased localization rates for core equipment and components such as laser powder bed fusion and electron beam selective melting systems; support for key areas has been strengthened, with stable mass production of meter-scale large aluminum-titanium alloy structural parts and copper-chromium-niobium alloy thrust chambers, transitioning these products from "optional" to "essential"; penetration into emerging fields has accelerated, with new energy vehicle aluminum alloy additive structural parts and personalized titanium alloy medical implants achieving implementation, and magnesium and aluminum alloys rapidly breaking through in low-altitude equipment and humanoid robot sectors. The industry is moving from sample display to large-scale production.
Fan Shunke proposed four suggestions for promoting high-quality industry development: adhere to technological innovation to overcome key core technologies; deepen the integration of production and application to expand high-end application scenarios; pursue intelligent and green development; and improve the standard system to regulate healthy industry growth. He noted that Chizhou, located in the core area of the Yangtze River Delta, has formed a relatively complete copper, aluminum, and magnesium industry chain and is building a "Jiangnan Aerospace City" and an embodied intelligence industry chain. He hopes all parties will deepen cooperation to help Chizhou become a national hub for the nonferrous metal additive manufacturing industry.
He Gang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Chizhou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Guichi District Party Committee, stated in his address that additive manufacturing is a key lever for driving the transformation of manufacturing toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. Nonferrous metal additive manufacturing can meet the complex component manufacturing needs of fields such as aerospace and marine engineering, improving material utilization and reducing manufacturing costs. Chizhou is vigorously developing the new materials industry, strategically positioning itself in the nonferrous metal additive manufacturing sector, and will create a first-class business environment to provide investors with full-process, full-factor, and full-cycle services.
Following the opening ceremony, an industry promotion session for Chizhou City was held. Representatives from the Chizhou High-Tech Zone, the Organization Department of the Guichi District Party Committee, and the Jiangnan Light Alloy Research Institute introduced industry investment, talent policies, public service platforms, and innovation policies. The keynote speech session featured special reports from nine experts.
Shi Yusheng, Chief Professor of the Huazhong Scholar Excellence Program at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, shared research progress, industry status, and future trends in metal additive manufacturing technology. The global additive manufacturing scale is growing rapidly, with metal additive manufacturing leading the growth rate, forming a complete industry chain. Technologies such as powder bed fusion, laser near-net shaping, wire arc additive manufacturing, and electron beam melting are becoming increasingly mature. China's metal additive manufacturing is generally at an advanced global level, but gaps remain in basic theory, high-end equipment, and original innovation. His team has developed nonferrous metal printing equipment, multi-material integrated equipment, and additive-subtractive hybrid manufacturing systems. The industry will focus on overcoming large-scale, high-performance complex component manufacturing technologies, promoting intelligent and high-reliability equipment upgrades, with the domestic additive manufacturing industry scale expected to exceed 100 billion yuan.
Deng Qingchen, Assistant Researcher at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, presented a report on behalf of Peng Liming's team, introducing research progress in high-performance magnesium alloy additive manufacturing. Magnesium alloys are the lightest engineering metal materials, but traditional casting processes suffer from coarse grains, numerous defects, and low material utilization. Additive manufacturing can overcome these bottlenecks but faces challenges such as difficulty in raw material preparation and susceptibility to evaporation and cracking during forming. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is the only team in China conducting research on full-series, full-process additive manufacturing technology for magnesium alloys, having completed the development of specialized magnesium alloy powders and wires for additive manufacturing and developed multiple high-performance magnesium-rare earth alloys. Magnesium alloy additive manufacturing technology has preliminarily achieved engineering application capability.
Wang Zhimin, Chief Specialist in Additive Manufacturing at the 239th Factory of the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, presented a report on the application and development of aluminum alloy additive manufacturing technology in the aerospace field, including aluminum alloy material types and characteristics, additive manufacturing methods and their advantages and disadvantages, and elaborated on application challenges and development trends.
Gan Kefu, Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Central South University, presented a report on research progress in aluminum alloy additive manufacturing. Laser additive manufacturing of aluminum alloys has been applied in multiple aircraft and engines, but traditional aluminum alloy grades commonly suffer from issues such as hot cracking and oxidation spheroidization. His team has conducted specialized design for high-strength 3D-printed aluminum alloys, starting from approaches such as solidification crack resistance and solid-phase crack resistance, combining theoretical models and experimental analysis to study the impact of alloying elements on crack sensitivity factors, screening crack-inhibiting elements, and achieving crack-free composition design.
Zhao Yongshan, Deputy General Manager of the Nonferrous Metals Technology and Economic Research Institute Co., Ltd., presented a report on standard system construction. China has formed a three-tier standardization policy system, with multiple documents promoting the development of standards across the entire industry chain. Domestic nonferrous metal additive manufacturing standards are categorized into basic, process, testing, raw materials, and finished parts, with some metal powder standards having stricter impurity requirements than foreign ones. The industry still faces issues such as inconsistent mechanical property acceptance rules, and continuously improving the standard system will lay a solid foundation for high-quality industry development.
Zhou Faquan, Deputy General Manager of Aerospace Engineering Equipment (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., introduced progress in aluminum alloy friction stir solid-phase additive manufacturing technology. This technology relies on friction and extrusion to achieve micro-forging and near-net shaping, featuring no melting, high deposition efficiency, and high performance, addressing issues such as long lead times and low material utilization in traditional forging plus subtractive processing. The company has independently developed multiple additive manufacturing equipment, breaking through core technologies such as continuous feeding and hybrid heat source regulation, with multiple aluminum alloy additive samples meeting high-strength forging standards.
Lei Qian, Professor/Researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy at Central South University, presented a report on high-performance copper alloy additive manufacturing. Copper alloys have high thermal conductivity, leading to challenges such as delamination and warping during additive manufacturing. His team has conducted research using machine learning and online sensing technologies, completing the development of additive manufacturing for multiple copper alloys, including Cu-Cr-Zr and Cu-Cr-Si. Among them, the Cu-Cr-Nb alloy achieves a tensile strength of 785 MPa and an electrical conductivity of 62.9% IACS, with excellent high-temperature stability. This technology has broad application prospects in aerospace, precision electronics, and energy equipment.
Han Yadong, East China Regional Manager of Xi'an Bright Laser Technologies Co., Ltd., presented a report on copper metal 3D printing. The rapid growth of liquid cooling demand in the AI era is driving the development of copper heat dissipation products, with additive manufacturing offering advantages such as free design, zero interface leakage risk, and high material utilization.
Shan Shaohua, Regional Manager of Hunan Farsoon High-Tech Co., Ltd., introduced the path of additive manufacturing innovation and scaling. The company has self-developed melt pool monitoring and powder bed flatness detection systems to ensure stable quality in batch production, launched full-size copper alloy dedicated equipment, and achieved ultra-fine printing technology with 0.07mm thin walls and 0.03mm precision. The technology and equipment have been applied in aerospace, high-end transportation, humanoid robots, medical aids, and consumer electronics.
On the afternoon of June 10, the conference held the 2026 Copper Processing Risk Management Futures Training Session. Six experts, including Li Xuan, Li Ting, Yan Yuhao, Ji Xianfei, Wang Conglin, and Lu Yijin, presented reports on the use of financial instruments such as futures and options by copper processing enterprises to enhance price risk management capabilities. That evening, a special event on the copper-based new materials industry was held, with multiple experts and corporate representatives engaging in exchanges and discussions.
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