China"The Action Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Development of Manufacturing (2025-2027)" explicitly identifies additive manufacturing as a key technology for green manufacturing. It aims to drive its transition toward 'mass production' and support large-scale applications in fields such as healthcare (custom prosthetics, dental restorations), aerospace (lightweight structural components), and automotive (integrated body parts).

July 13, Hunan Nanfang Machine Tool Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yuhuan CNC, held a new product launch event in Changsha for the world's largest tenon slot broaching machine. The vertical tenon slot broaching machine introduced can broach tenon slots in super-large diameter turbine disks up to 2,500mm in diameter. It possesses core technological advantages in heavy-load vibration suppression technology and fully automatic intelligent tool magazines. The launch of this product marks Nanfang Machine Tool's simultaneous advancement in broaching and grinding technologies, enabling it to one-stop solve processing challenges for critical components such as turbine disks in aerospace engine and steam turbine.

Recently, the InShaPe project (2022-2025), jointly initiated by 11 institutions including Technical University of Munich, Germany, and EOS, focuses on beam shaping and process monitoring in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology. Its goal is to address the high cost (55-60% of costs) and high defect rate issues in metal 3D printing, driving its transition from a 'high-potential technology' to a 'mainstream manufacturing technology'. This aims to enable competition with traditional die-casting processes in terms of precision, material handling, and sustainability. Leveraging multi-country R&D strengths, metal 3D printing will be moved from 'laboratory technology' to 'mass production', solving environmental and cost problems associated with traditional manufacturing.