TCT Asia is the flagship Asia-Pacific trade show for 3D printing and additive manufacturing, the regional edition of the TCT brand that began in the United Kingdom and has been held in China since 2015. It brings the region’s additive manufacturing supply chain together in Shanghai — machine builders and materials producers, software developers, service bureaux and the industrial users who put the technology to work — for three days of exhibits, conferences and technical exchange.

Its displays run from metal and polymer printing equipment and their consumables through auxiliary hardware, measurement and post-processing equipment to design and process software, while the conference programme works through application-led topics such as aerospace, mould making, medical devices and consumer products. Buyers and engineers from across the Asia-Pacific come to the show to compare equipment, source materials and follow where additive manufacturing is heading.