Creality (HKEX: 3388) is a Chinese manufacturer of consumer 📝3D Printing hardware, founded in Shenzhen in 2014 by Chen Chun, Ao Danjun, Liu Huilin, and Tang Jingke. It produces desktop FDM and resin printers, 3D scanners, laser engravers, and filament, sold direct and through retail to hobbyists, makers, small businesses, and schools. Its Ender family — including the 📝Ender 3 V2 — turned low-cost open-frame printing into a mass-market category.
The four founders started in a 20 m² workshop building machines for a market that was still priced as prosumer equipment. The Ender 3, launched in 2018, was the inflection: an open-frame kit cheap enough to buy on impulse and open enough to modify indefinitely, which produced both volume and one of the largest modding communities in the hobby. Scale followed, and so did diversification into scanning and laser engraving. By 2025 GMV the company ranked second in consumer 3D printers at 11.2% share, first in consumer 3D scanners at 45.3%, and fourth in consumer laser engravers at 4.8% — a spread that hedges the printer business against 📝Bambu Lab, whose closed, automated machines reset buyer expectations after 2022. On May 29, 2026 it listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the first consumer 3D printing company to do so, in an offering oversubscribed 3,829 times that raised roughly HK$1.272 billion net.
An Ender 3 v2 in December 2020 was my way into 3D printing — cheap enough to be a whim, fiddly enough to be a hobby. It also ended the hobby for five years when I couldn't get conductive filament to stick, which is the honest Creality experience: the machine gets you in the door and then hands you the problem.