Farsoon is expanding into the Southeast Asia footwear market through a partnership with ChanhonTech (Chanhon Additive Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd), a leading industrial 3D printing solution supplier with 12 years of experience in digital footwear solutions and services. ChanhonTech will distribute Farsoon’s metal and plastic powder bed fusion systems to the Southeast Asia footwear market and also offer its customers comprehensive solutions that include materials, applications, services and technical support in footwear manufacturing.
“Convinced by Farsoon’s established high-quality 3D printing machine portfolio and successful applications in industrial manufacturing, ChanhonTech started work with Farsoon in the Southeast Asian footwear industry from more than one year ago,” said Mr. Binghua Lu, General Manager of ChanhonTech. “Combining our profound understanding of local markets with Farsoon’s know-how in serial additive manufacturing, we’ve received increasing quality inquiries from various international brands; as announcing our partnership today, we are happy to share that our initial success of sales in Southeast Asia footwear market and Farsoon metal 3D printing system installation at customer sites in Indonesia and Vietnam. I believe Farsoon’s industrial pbf systems will be the best series production tools for manufacturers offering the right products that meet the demands of the industries.”
“Farsoon is excited to work alongside many industry customers in the footwear sector and see how 3D printing has transformed China’s footwear manufacturing in the past years,” added Jack Cheng, Farsoon’s Board Member & Deputy General Manager. “As of today, the total number of athletic shoes produced by Farsoon metal 3D printed shoe molds has reached over 100,000+ pairs. With the strong collaboration between Farsoon and ChanhonTech, I believe we will offer highly productive and value-added 3D printing solutions revolutionizing Footwear manufacturing in Southeast Asia.”
“We highly value the collaboration with ChanhonTech for their solid experience of offering industrial-scale 3D printing footwear solutions in Southeast Asia,” also commented Vince Zhao, Global Channel Manager (AMEA) of Farsoon, “Southeast Asia has become the global capital of the footwear industry in the past decade. Our current approach to the Southeast Asia footwear market started with an initiative to introduce industrial additive manufacturing technology to expand customers’ in-house capacity. Now with the increasing demands heavily focused on real production, we are pleased to join hands with ChanhonTeh to provide Southeast footwear customers with top-quality, truly open additive machine solutions and fast-responding technical supports.”
Farsoon and ChanhonTech will hold the Additive Manufacturing Footwear Forum Vietnam this Saturday, Oct 28th at InterContinental Saigon in HoChiMinh City. Interested parties can join over 50 experts from footwear giants, suppliers and additive manufacturing in this half-day event featuring the latest insights from markets, materials, applications and technical solutions.
by Davide Sher