GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canton Fair has expanded its digital capabilities to boost high-quality foreign trade by introducing its year-round online platform featuring monthly industry themes. The December edition focuses on the Light & Electrical and Hardware & Tool categories, creating a central gateway for international buyers seeking new products and reliable suppliers. The platform invites industry professionals across global markets to access the digital showcase and discover new avenues for cooperation.
The Industry Thematic Event brings together a whole online sourcing chain through four integrated sections: Hot Products, Selected Exhibitors, Sourcing Request, and Industry Events, covering product exploration, supplier evaluation, demand posting, and engagement with industry insights. This structure is designed to facilitate matchmaking between buyers and suppliers, thereby enhancing the efficiency of cross-border business interactions.
In this month, the Hot Products section spotlights key offerings across Lighting Equipment, Electronic and Electrical Products, New Energy Resources, Tools, and Hardware.
Energy-efficient LED solutions and IoT-ready intelligent lighting systems anchor the lighting display. A top Foshan enterprise showcases its innovative series using Rayleigh scattering and nanotech to mimic natural sky spectra, with AI-personalized scenes via mobile app.
Power and network cables in accordance with standards in Europe, Africa, and other regions are complemented by IoT terminals designed for increasingly connected buildings.
Solar tools, storage batteries, and photovoltaic connectors reflect rising demand for adaptable new-energy applications. A Nasdaq-listed company showcases its new commercial & industrial energy storage system and 24.8%-efficiency N-type PV modules with robust adaptability.
Industrial hand tools, longer-endurance cordless power tools, and advanced fasteners round out the Tools and Hardware lineup.
The Selected Exhibitors section highlights companies with strong research capabilities, recognized international certifications, reliable supply chains, and overseas project experience. Emphasis on patented technologies, intelligent production systems, and green manufacturing practices helps buyers make informed decisions and progress quickly toward product sampling.
In the Sourcing Request section, overseas buyers post detailed sourcing specifications, including quantities, delivery timelines, and compliance standards, while suppliers can respond directly, expediting conversion of sourcing intent into viable transactions. Complementing these functions, the Industry Events section reviews product launches and application cases at the 138th Canton Fair, offering latest innovation and real projects for buyers' reference.
With continuous online operation and monthly industry thematic events, the Canton Fair strengthens precision matching, extends product exposure, and let Chinese manufacturing better meet global demand.
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Canton Fair's December Industry Thematic Event Focuses on Lighting, Electrical, Hardware, and Tools
SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Following its public debut at Formnext 2025, Anycubic today announced the opening of the deposit program for Kobra X, a new entry-level FDM 3D printer designed to make multi-color and multi-material printing more accessible to a broader range of users.
Unveiled alongside the company's latest product lineup in Frankfurt, Kobra X reflects Anycubic's continued focus on simplifying advanced desktop manufacturing workflows. As noted by 3D Printing Industry during Formnext, the company's recent launches signal a clearer separation between entry-level and higher-performance systems, while placing greater emphasis on speed, material adaptability, and ease of use.
Kobra X positions itself within this strategy as an open-frame, single-nozzle multicolor printer aimed at users entering multi-color printing for the first time, without requiring external color support devices or complex system integration.
A New Standard for Entry-Level Multicolor: ACE GEN2 Architecture
At the core of Kobra X is Anycubic's second-generation ACE (Anycubic Color Engine) architecture, which integrates four filament channels directly into the printhead and shortens the molten filament transition path to approximately 30 mm. Compared with external filament-swapping systems that rely on long retraction distances, this design allows color changes to occur over a much shorter travel range, improving efficiency during multicolor prints with frequent transitions.
In controlled internal tests using common 4-color models, Anycubic observed that ACE GEN2 can reduce color-switching time by approximately 30–50%, while lowering filament purge waste by a similar margin. Although results vary depending on model geometry, material combinations, and transition frequency, the shorter molten filament path generally enables faster, more material-efficient color changes in everyday multicolor printing scenarios, while preserving a single-nozzle workflow familiar to entry-level users.
Practical Multi-Material Capability: From PLA to TPU and PVA
Beyond color, Kobra X is designed to support multi-material printing within the same job. Through adaptive extrusion pressure control, the system can switch between materials with different mechanical properties, including combinations such as PLA with TPU (68D) or PLA with PVA.
This capability allows users to explore functional designs—such as flexible joints, soft-touch components, or soluble supports—without moving to dual-extrusion systems or enclosed industrial platforms. By keeping material switching within a single-nozzle architecture, Kobra X maintains a relatively straightforward setup while extending the range of applications available to entry-level users.
Kobra X is intended to be approachable for first-time multicolor users, while incorporating the standard hardware and firmware features expected from modern desktop FDM printers. These include automated bed leveling, motion and flow calibration, AI-assisted print monitoring, quiet operation modes, and a streamlined assembly and maintenance workflow.
Deposit Program Now Open
As of December 26, Anycubic has opened the deposit program for Kobra X via its official store. Customers can place a US$10 deposit, which will be applied as a US$30 discount toward the final purchase price at checkout.
About Anycubic
Founded in 2015, Anycubic is a global manufacturer of desktop 3D printers and materials, offering both FDM and resin solutions for makers, designers, engineers, and small-scale manufacturers. The company continues to focus on making advanced fabrication technologies more accessible through practical design and user-oriented innovation.
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Anycubic Opens Deposits for Kobra X, Following Formnext Debut of Its Next-Generation Entry-Level Multicolor FDM Printer
