Chen Chun, founder of Create 3D: Let 3D printing enter every household

The 3D printing industry is seen as a “dark horse” bucking the trend of the epidemic. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2020, the added value of large-scale high-tech manufacturing increased by 7.1 percent from the previous year, and many products saw significant growth, including 3D printing equipment that more than doubled the growth rate. Shenzhen 3D printing enterprises also delivered a bright report card. In April last year, Shenzhen Creation3d Technology Co., Ltd. created a “myth” in the industry that “160,000 overseas orders were placed in half a month, and one was sold every eight seconds”.

“The overseas market is hot, but we are also firmly optimistic about the domestic market for 3D printing.” Recently accepted shenzhen Business Daily reporter interview, creation of 3d founder Chen Chun said so.

Chen Chun, founder of Creative 3d

3D printing offers new possibilities for supply chains

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading around the world, shutting down a large number of overseas factories, limiting offline distribution channels, blocking the global supply chain, and forcing people to work and entertain at home due to the shortage of protective materials such as masks and goggles. This is a good opportunity for creative 3D and even the whole 3D printing industry. “3D printing offers new possibilities for solving global supply chain challenges.” Chen chun said.

On February 8, 2020, Creation3d shared the open source files of its 3D printed masks and goggles to the world, which attracted a large number of users to download. The characteristics of 3D printing, such as fast, small batch, no mold, flexible manufacturing and on-demand production, are attracting more and more people’s attention. On the one hand, 3D printers are used to print protective materials, or 3D printers are used as home entertainment equipment. On the other hand, 3D printing is also used as production equipment to print parts for cars and airplanes. “It is not unusual for an engineer overseas to have three or five 3D printers in his home.” Chen chun said.

The epidemic has boosted the popularity of 3D printing. Under the strategy of expanding factories, increasing recruitment, expanding production capacity, and increasing overseas warehouse stock, Creative 3d bucked the trend and made great progress last year. Its products were exported to overseas markets and its shipment exceeded 1 million units, setting a new record. Chen chun revealed that in 2020, The sales volume of Creation3d will increase by two and a half times, 90% of which will be mainly exported.

According to the statistics of The Antarctic Bear 3D Printing website, among 28 3D printing enterprises that have disclosed a revenue of more than 100 million yuan in 2020, Creative 3D ranked first among consumer 3D printing enterprises with a revenue of more than 1 billion yuan. So far, Creative 3D has gained more than 1.2 million users and released nearly 70 3D printers. In the past 7 years, Creative 3D’s 3D printers have been exported to 192 countries and regions from Shenzhen.

3D printers should not be toys

Founded in 2014, The company is headquartered in Longhua District, Shenzhen. At the beginning of creation 3D, the four founders, including Chen Chun, decided to “popularize 3D printing in China and let 3D printing enter every household”. Is Creative 3d, which turned 7 this month, far from achieving that goal? In Chen’s view, “there is still at least some distance”, which is one from the market, and the other from technical limitations.

Chen chun said that after the outbreak of the epidemic, 3D printers came into people’s eyes, but many people may have only heard of the concept of 3D printing, but still do not know the role of 3D printing, what problems it can solve, whether the cost is high or not, and there is a very long process to popularize the market. In terms of technology, as far as consumer 3D printers are concerned, there is not a big gap between domestic 3D printing enterprises and foreign countries. “The key is whether we can provide a huge library of models so that users can see something outside and make it at home with a 3D printer, improving the practicality of 3D printers, rather than just providing a few models and reducing 3D printers to ‘disposable toys’.”

Creative 3d Building

Chen Chun explained that for this reason, Creation3D has built creation3D cloud platform. On the one hand, 3D printer enterprises can build a massive model library through the cloud platform, simplifying the way for users to obtain models, so that consumers do not need to spend too much time, out of the box. On the other hand, Chen also hopes that more professional 3D printing users can communicate and share with each other on the cloud platform, so as to attract more new users and further popularize the market.

The domestic 3D printing market is extremely optimistic

From 1986, the world’s first commercial printer appeared, has been more than 30 years. In Chen’s opinion, this era offers a good opportunity for 3D printing. At present, 3D printing has penetrated into People’s Daily life, from the frames of glasses, masks and shoes we wear to the fields of aerospace, AUTOMOBILE 3C, jewelry and industrial design. Even in the medical industry, people have begun to use 3D printers for cell culture and bone transplantation. “The 3D printing industry has no ceiling, and it is constantly bumping into more and more connections with various industries. It will only be a ‘1+N’ relationship.” Chen chun said.

However, Chen said, “IT will take at least 10 years for 3D printers to enter every household.” In his opinion, the acceptance of 3D printing in overseas markets is much higher than in China. For example, about 5 percent of households in the United States have started using 3D printers, “while maybe less than 1 in 1,000 households in China”.

Nevertheless, Chen Chun repeatedly stressed to reporters, he is still infinitely optimistic about the domestic market. “Our domestic sales team and foreign sales team, the number of people ratio has been close to 1:1, the domestic sales team to create only 15% of the output value, but we firmly believe that the domestic market has a huge room for growth in the future.”

Chen chun said that in recent years, more and more schools are starting to add 3 d printing course or professional, “this generation of children early education in school to accept a guest, their cognition of 3 d printing will gradually over us, when they walk into society, is to be a part of driving the development of 3 d printing industry, more and more people understand and know the 3 d printing, This could be a foundation for 3D printers to enter every home.” Chen chun said.

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