Industrial stereolithography (SLA) 3D printer manufacturerUniontechhas managed to secure $31 million in Series D funding, according toPandaily来源。
在拒绝资本的领导下，据说这项投资得到了支持现金资本，，，，Yingke Private Equity, Dragonrise Capital andEvonik Venture Capital，，，，amongst others. While it has yet to comment publicly on the raise, it’s likely that UnionTech will use its funding as a means of boosting its expansion, with the firm said to boast an average annual growth rate of over 50% for the last ten years.
Uniontech’s SLA printing portfolio
Since first entering the 3D printer market in 2000 as the ‘Shanghai Union Technology Corporation,’ UnionTech has rebranded itself and managed to significantly build out its operations. Having expanded into Europe and the United States in 2016, the company went on to launch its飞行员商业系列3D printers at TCT 2017.
Composed of thePilot 250andPilot 450，这一系列SLA机器包装了基于其现有RSPRO型号的功能，并为用户提供了具有出色表面饰面的高量零件的能力。这些系统还维护了与前任相同的易于组装的平台，以及其开放材料设置，使其对第三方创新开放。
One way that UnionTech has sought to encourage this culture of experimentation, is via its collaboration with what was DSM’s 3D printing division, and has now beenbought by Covestro。As part of this partnership, the firm has become a reseller of several Somos, ProtoGen and ProtoTherm materials, with the impact, heat resistance and accuracy needed to open new applications to UnionTech adopters.
Most recently, the company’s technologies tend to have been applied in automotive settings, with C-TECH using 3D printing toimprove its car customization efficiency，，，，and汤吉大学的DIAN Racing team turning to SLA in a bid to build itsDRE21电动车并参加中国方程式学生。
增长启发的投资？
Given that UnionTech isn’t traded publicly, and it hasn’t spoken on the record about its latest funding round, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where it plans to reinvest its newly-raised capital. However, pandaily has sourced figures from market analysis firm语境，，，，that provide a glimpse into the reason why it has attracted so much investment.
According to Pandaily, this undisclosed report shows that UnionTech’s income has grown by an average of more than 50% over the last ten years, and this figure rises to over 80% when it comes to the growth of its acquired equipment.
Likewise, these numbers indicate that the company’s shipments were the highest in CONTEXT’s entire industrial-grade category during Q1 and Q2 2021, while they also show that China’s 3D printing industry has had an annual compound growth rate of 49% over the past five years, making those operating there highly attractive to potential investors.
That being said, not all of the investors behind UnionTech’s Series D funding round were new backers, and Evonik Venture Capital has been investing in the company since at least December 2020. At the time, the VC firm acquired a minority stake in UnionTech, stating that it was planning to launch a range of SLA materials, thus its investment would allow it to gain a better understanding of their end-use efficacy.
“We expect great technical advances in the field of stereolithography,” Bernhard Mohr, head of Evonik’s Venture Capital unit said last year. “Evonik is preparing the launch of ready-to-use materials for this process. Our investment is therefore not only aimed at a profitable financial return, but above all at new insights in the use of this process.”
China’s emerging AM industry
尽管更广泛的3D打印部门的一部分仍在从Covid-19的影响中恢复，但有证据表明，这在中国最快发生，在中国，该技术的采用确实开始起飞。
Back in November 2020, CONTEXT published figures suggesting that the Chinese and desktop 3D printing markets were leading the global recovery from the pandemic. While the analysis firm’s report showed a 38% decline in the revenue of Western industrial 3D printer manufacturers between Q2 2019 and 2020, it found a24% jump in Chinese shipments从Q1到第二季度2020的类似系统。
What’s more, the recent sales performance of one the country’s leading 3D printer manufacturers,Farsoon技术，，，，appears to suggest that this resurgence is ongoing. The company报告了创纪录的收入during November 2021, bringing in $15 million through the sale of more than 40 machines, leading it to announce an expansion of its capacity to cater for its growing demand.
在其他地方，在桌面3D打印中，许多领先的中国公司没有公开交易，因此很难评估其商业进度，但是像Creality继续扩大其投资组合。仅今年一年，该公司就启动了HALOT-ONE，，，，Halot-Skyand卤素 - 莱特系统及其CR-SCAN 01扫描仪，每个都以可承受的价格为设计用户提供高级功能。
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