On April 26th, the 19th China International Machine Tool Exhibition (CIMT 2025) came to an end. As a "barometer" of the global manufacturing industry, the exhibition gathered advanced technologies and innovative achievements from around the world. LiM Laser, as an advanced enterprise in the metal 3D printing industry, brought cutting-edge metal additive manufacturing solutions to this exhibition. With the "additive thinking" approach to solving processing difficulties, and with its forward-looking technological layout and rich application cases, it has attracted the attention of many professional visitors from home and abroad.
Subverting Traditional Manufacturing and Driving Industry Change
LiM Laser LiM-X400M+ equipment on-site real-time printing, to help the audience understand the working principle of metal 3D printing, fully demonstrated the unique advantages of additive manufacturing.
LiM-X400M+ equipment has a molding size of 400mm×300mm×450mm (W×D×H), relying on 3×500W laser for efficient molding, with functions such as grafting printing, variable layer thickness printing, substrate temperature control, etc., which has obvious advantages in solving the pain points of production in the fields of mold manufacturing, 3C electronics, and so on.
Waterway Mold
Exhibit size: 343mm×242mm×120mm
Printing device: LiM-X400M+
Printing time: 120h
The mold is used in the manufacture of automotive parts, the interior has complex and rich with the shape of the cooling waterway, the use of SLM molding, shorten the mold processing time, reduce the difficulty of processing, so that the production and processing process is more green and environmentally friendly.
Grafted waterway mold
Exhibit size: 114mm×122mm×160mm
Printing equipment: LiM-X260A
Printing time: 60h
The mold adopts the manufacturing method of “machining + 3D printing”, in which the cutting plane of the traditional machined parts is used to individually form the cooling part of the mold inserts, which not only reduces the production cost, but also helps to shorten the production cycle.
Drone frame
Exhibit size: 153mm x 153mm x 25mm
Printing device: LiM-X260A
Printing duration: 5h
Adopting topology-optimized structural design scheme reduces the number of parts and shortens the manufacturing process and production cycle; one-piece molding effectively safeguards the mechanical properties, reduces the quality risk, and significantly improves the overall reliability of small and complex parts.
Bulk cell phone hinge
Exhibit size: 262mm×262mm×189mm
Printing equipment: LiM-X260A
Printing time: 116h
This case fully embodies the mass production application of SLM technology in the 3C electronics field. Full-page printing and large-scale mass production can effectively reduce production costs. The use of titanium alloy material in the hinge, a key part of folding screen cell phone, weighs only 132g and can be folded more than 400,000 times, significantly improving the service life of folding screen cell phone.
In addition, LiM Laser also exhibited a variety of large-sized and complex structural parts in the aerospace field, comprehensively demonstrating the level of process technology.
Round to Square
Exhibit size: 1290mm×1180mm×506mm
Printing equipment: LiM-X1500H
Printing time: 288h
Heat exchanger
Exhibit size: 569mm×527mm×512mm
Printing device: LiM-X650
Printing time: 192h
Spiral structural parts
Exhibit size: 418mm×362mm×2210mm
Printing device: LiM-X800H+
Printing time: 305h
Continuously plowing into the industry to drive manufacturing change
LiM Laser continues to plough into the metal 3D printing industry, adhering to the concept of “making manufacturing more efficient”, constantly breaking through technical bottlenecks, helping more large-sized and complex structural parts to be formed in one piece, and at the same time providing better solutions for the batch manufacturing of small and medium-sized parts.
Based on LiM-X series SLM equipments, LiM-X provides customized solutions covering the whole life cycle of metal 3D printing for users in various fields, which can realize cost reduction, efficiency and high quality production, no matter it is a precision part or a super-large complex structural part. For printing quality control, SiM-XLM has developed systems such as melt pool monitoring and powder bed monitoring to ensure stable and reliable molding quality of parts.
