TCT Shenzhen 2026 closed on October 16 with 34,347 unique visitors over three days, up 85 percent on the previous edition, according to figures sent to media partners this week by organizer Globus Rapid News.
The show ran October 14 to 16 in Hall 15 of the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. It was the third edition of the South China event, the regional sibling of TCT Asia in Shanghai. Shenzhen sits at the center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and is home to Creality, Elegoo and Anycubic, three of the biggest names in desktop 3D printers, which goes some way to explaining why an additive manufacturing show in the city fills up.
The organizer’s other headline numbers: 3,404 visitors from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas markets, up 112 percent on the last edition; more than 300 exhibitors and brands; 32 delegations of professional buyers from China and abroad; and more than 160 speakers and media partners. Before the show, the organizer had set out targets of 250 or more exhibitors and 25,000 or more professional visitors, so both were beaten by a comfortable margin.
The conference program listed more than 80 sessions across the three days, including a forum on AI-driven 3D printing and smart manufacturing, the second GBA Going Global Forum on international growth in 3D printing, the TCT Shenzhen Summit and TCT Introducing.
The organizing team credits media partners and their social coverage for extending the show’s reach beyond the halls and into Southeast Asia. It calls the exhibitor count a sign of “the growing diversity of the show.”
Two dates follow. TCT Asia 2027 runs May 27 to 29, 2027, in Shanghai. TCT Shenzhen 2027 runs August 12 to 14, 2027, which the organizer’s event page lists at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, a different building from this year’s, for anyone who had just learned the way to Hall 15.
3DPrinting.com was a media partner of TCT Shenzhen 2026. All attendance and exhibitor figures in this article are the organizer’s own and have not been independently audited.
Source: tctasia.cn
