China Begins Construction on Its First National 3D Printing Lab

While there were plenty of varying factors in play, for the most part it wasn’t until President Obama began mentioning 3D Printing technology and actually funding research that the it began exploding into dozens of  national industries.

For a nation like China, who had almost cornered the market on inexpensive mass production, it has taken them a little longer than you would expect to hop onto the 3D printing train. But now, the Chinese government recently finalized a deal with Hunan Farsoon Hi-tech Co. Ltd. to build and manage a new, national engineering lab focusing entirely on 3D printing.

¿Should already established 3D printing industries throughout Europe and North America be worried about China’s sudden interest in Additive Manufacturing?

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