On November 6, the Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau issued a pre-approval public notice on the design review and adjustment of the HeyGears 3D printing digital smart manufacturing center project, with the notice period running from November 6 to November 15. According to a same-day summary by PowderSight based on Chinese sources, the project sits on plot ZSCXN-B2-1 in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, with Guangzhou Bangwei Technology as project owner. Total investment is RMB 1 billion with a 24-month construction period; once complete, the site will assemble 5,000 industrial-grade 3D printing units and 5,000 consumer-grade units per year. The project is currently in the main structure construction phase.
HeyGears was founded in July 2015 and is headquartered in Guangzhou, established by seven entrepreneurs born in the 1990s who returned from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; founder and CEO is Gui Peiyan. The company positions itself as a full-stack high-end stereolithography 3D printing enterprise, holding more than 60% share in China's dental laboratory segment and ranking first in the North American dental 3D printing market, with overseas revenue above 60% of the total. In May 2026 it completed a Series C round of more than RMB 300 million, led jointly by Legend Capital and Fortune Capital, with Gopher Asset Management and CAS Investment participating. Cumulative R&D investment exceeds RMB 1 billion, and the company holds 634 patents; its product lines cover the dental UltraCraft series and the desktop Reflex series.