China to Build a National Engineering Lab Focused on 3D Printing

Source: http://inside3dprinting.com/

(3DPrint.com) — The Chinese government recently finalized a deal with Hunan Farsoon Hi-tech Co. Ltd. to build and manage a new national engineering lab focused entirely on 3D printing. Late last month, Hunan Farsoon held a ceremony to officially launch the massive construction project for the state-of-the-art facility. Despite ground barely being broken, the lab has already developed a full slate of projects and goals to carry it through the next three years.

Farsoon’s chairman and lab director Xu Xiaoshu said those goals include achieving notable breakthroughs in at least 20 key additive manufacturing technologies. They should include material precision placement, precise object color matching, multifocal, integrated high precision data acquisition, as well as high frequency, high precision, and real-time energy control.