Team to set 3D-printing rules for all of Guangdong

Guangdong enterprises in 3D printing are to benefit from sophisticated wide-coverage basic quality guidelines with the establishment of the Technical Committee on 3D Printing Standardization of Guangdong Province (GD/TC126) in Zhuhai on Oct 12.

The 49-member committee is chaired by Professor Yang Yongqiang, department head of the School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering of South China University of Technology. Bi Mingzhu, deputy director of the National Printing & Office Automation Consumable Materials Quality Supervision & Inspection Center, serves as secretary-general. The secretariat is composed of the inspection center; Print-Rite Holdings Ltd, a premium manufacturer of printer consumables; and Recycling Times Media Corp, a worldwide print-consumables industry information provider based in Zhuhai.

Rapid increase in the speed of formulating and revising related standards can be expected, said a committee member, and will greatly bolster the development of 3D printing in Guangdong an important way to spread and utilize advanced technologies. 

Technical Committee on 3D Printing Standardization of Guangdong Province Inaugural & First Primary Meeting

Zhuhai is the "Print Consumables Capital of the World" and is host city of RemaxWorld Expo, the largest trade show anywhere for the print consumables industry, which ended on Oct 14.

Industry experts credited the major progress in standards development to Zhuhai's continuous effort to implement an innovation-driven commercial strategy and concentration on an advanced multilayered system.

The city's important economic and social development areas have benefited from strict quality requirements in the primary system established by 12 national and provincial standardization technical committees based in Zhuhai.

Local enterprises and public institutions have led or participated in formulating or amending 55 international, 487 national, 446 occupational, and 133 local standards. A local official expressed confidence that the standards improvement endeavor will eventually facilitate industrial upgrades in the city.

Certificates issued to first committee members [Photos by Song Xuemei / Zhuhai Daily]