From March 17th to 19th, the highly anticipated 12th Asian 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Exhibition (TCT Asia 2026) was grandly held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai), bringing together top companies, cutting-edge technologies and innovations in the global additive manufacturing industry.

As the world's leading provider of complete metal 3D printing solutions, Falcontech presented a number of metal 3D printing application results and solutions, and discussed the development trends and industry opportunities of additive manufacturing technology with industry experts, manufacturing companies and partners from around the world.

At the scene, Falcontech’s core components in the fields of aerospace, energy industry, and consumer electronics were on display. With innovative achievements such as complex structure lightweight design and functional integrated manufacturing, it attracted many professional audiences and industry experts to stop and communicate. After more than ten years of intensive development, Falcontech has relied on its mature equipment system, material database and engineering experience to continuously expand its application boundaries and form significant leading advantages in complex structural parts manufacturing, batch stable production and full-process quality control.

thrust chamber expansion section

Material: 316L Size: 1013mm × 1013mm × 902mm Structural features: This component is used in the TH-12 liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine developed by Tianbing Technology. It is one of the largest 3D printed stainless steel thrust chamber components in the domestic commercial aerospace field so far. Compared with traditional manufacturing processes, integrated forming effectively improves structural reliability. At the same time, with the design freedom of additive manufacturing, complex regenerative cooling channels can be constructed to keep the engine running stably in extreme thermal environments. As the core power unit of the Tianlong-3 launch vehicle, this component has completed multiple long-range hot test runs with the TH-12 engine, with a cumulative test run time of more than 1,000 seconds. It has undergone rigorous tests such as continuous ignition, supercooled liquid oxygen, and extreme working conditions, fully verifying its reliability and reusability.

Motor casing

Material: AlSi10Mg Size: 200mm x 200mm x 80mm Structural features: The integrated motor casing is accurately guided by fluid simulation, and fins and heat dissipation arrays are non-uniformly arranged outside the flow channel to achieve directional temperature control of local hot spots; the internal design of the casing is designed with a multi-flow channel structure, which significantly improves the flow efficiency and heat exchange capacity of the cooling medium. Additive manufacturing effectively avoids the common flow channel channeling problem in traditional welding processes, and provides reliable guarantee for the stable operation of motors under high power density.

Aviation flame tube

Material: GH3536 Size: 410mm×410mm×200mm Structural features: Integrated molding of multiple structural features successfully solves the problem of one-time integral forming of dense air film hole groups, and significantly improves the uniformity and consistency of air film cooling. Iterative optimization design based on additive thinking effectively shortens the R&D and manufacturing cycle, reduces development costs, and provides a new technical path for improving the cooling efficiency and comprehensive performance of the flame tube.

Turbojet engine components

Material: GH4169 Structural features: This turbojet engine component uses additive manufacturing technology to achieve a high degree of integration and lightweight design. The entire system consists of 8 key components and can be assembled into a small turbojet engine with a thrust of 15kg. The core innovation lies in the use of an integrated structural design of wheels, discs and axles, which integrates the traditional complex structure composed of dozens of scattered parts into eight independent components. While achieving significant weight reduction, the additive manufacturing process was used to complete the integrated forming of complex air film cooling holes, effectively improving the structural strength and thermodynamic performance of the component.

During the exhibition, Falcontech's technical team presented a special report on "Case Sharing of Advanced Heat Exchanger Design and Manufacturing Based on 3D Printing Processes", which provided an in-depth analysis of the innovation path of metal 3D printing in high-performance thermal management systems. Under traditional processes, complex flow channels and highly integrated structures are often difficult to process. However, with the help of 3D printing, engineers can freely construct multi-scale flow channels, topology optimization and highly integrated heat exchange units during the design stage, thereby significantly reducing the structural volume while improving heat transfer efficiency. Combining multiple actual cases, the report systematically demonstrates Falcontech's full-chain practical experience from structural design, process parameter optimization to production and manufacturing, highlighting the unlimited potential of metal 3D printing to develop more innovative thermal management solutions for the aerospace, energy and power and high-end equipment fields.

Facing the future, as high-end manufacturing continues to evolve toward digitalization, intelligence, and high performance, metal additive manufacturing is accelerating from single-point applications to large-scale and engineering implementation. Falcontech will continue to deepen its core process and equipment capabilities, strengthen its design-material-manufacturing integration advantages, expand the depth and breadth of applications in aerospace, energy and power, and advanced equipment, and continue to empower the upgrading of advanced manufacturing systems and the development of global high-end equipment.