Creality CEO on the Brand’s 10-year Anniversary, the New Multicolor K2 Plus 3D printer and More!

Creality is undoubtedly one of the best-known consumer 3D printer brands. In CONTEXT’s latest 2024 report, the Chinese manufacturer was listed as having the largest market share for entry-level 3D printers. And this is not surprising. Creality, celebrated its 10th birthday this year, and the company has had a remarkable evolution from its beginnings to the present. From the launch of the CR-3 in 2014 to the new K2 Plus multicolor 3D printer, which was exhibited at Formnext this year, garnering a huge interest from attendees. But that’s not all. Over the years, the brand has positioned itself as accessible and flexible, open to everyone, with a specific mission: to make 3D printing usable by everyone, to make simple objects up to the most noble projects. We talked about this and much more with Creality CEO and co-founder Adun Ao, who told us about the brand’s long road and their secret to coping with changes in the 3D printing industry while maintaining a stable and successful brand.

3DN: Could you introduce yourself and tell us when your connection to 3D printing started?

Adun Ao, Creality’s co-founder and CEO

I am Adun Ao, co-founder and CEO of Creality. During my time at university, I was deeply impressed by the 3D printers reported in technology news. Back then, most of our graduation projects were done by hand, and many complex ideas were difficult to realize. 3D printing offered a perfect solution to this challenge. I realized that it represented the future, a way to improve social efficiency, revolutionize manufacturing and bring people’s wildest ideas to life.

However, the majority of 3D printers available were industrial-grade and prohibitively expensive. I have always thought that for this technology to become widespread and reach households, it needed to be affordable. With this in mind, in 2014, I and a few partners founded Creality, entering the FDM 3D printing field and defining our mission as “evangelists of 3D printing”. From the start of the business until now, we have remained committed to popularizing 3D printing and ensuring that this technology benefits as many people as possible.