Chamlion

What Chamlion does

Chamlion (Nanjing Chamlion Laser Technology Co., Ltd. / 南京铖联激光科技有限公司) is a China-based digital-dentistry platform company founded in September 2017 and headquartered in Nanjing. It sells an integrated stack spanning self-developed dental materials (titanium and cobalt-chrome metal powders, photopolymer resins, polishing salts), Selective Laser Melting (SLM) metal 3D printers (NCL-M2150T titanium and NCL-M2150X cobalt-chrome models) and DLP resin 3D printers, in-house plasma polishers and heat-treatment furnaces, AI-based intelligent denture design software, and the Chamlion Cloud distributed order-fulfillment and intelligent production-scheduling platform that connects 1,500+ dental laboratories across 27+ countries to 260+ partner-operated cloud factories. The platform processes digital intraoral scans, executes remote CAD design and data processing, and dispatches print jobs to the optimal cloud factory for 24-hour order-to-delivery on semi-finished dental products.

The company monetizes through a hybrid model: one-time hardware sales of metal and DLP 3D printers plus post-processing equipment; recurring consumables revenue from proprietary metal powders and resins; per-order service fees on the Chamlion Cloud platform (Hardware-as-a-Service) including outsourced design and data-processing services; and recurring after-sales service contracts and paid Chamlion Academy training. Following a strategic May 2021 transformation from pure equipment supplier to cloud-factory service platform (and rebranding from Chamlion Laser to Chamlion Technology), service revenue reportedly grew more than 10x, and the company expanded overseas branches into Vietnam, USA, France, and Turkey, plus a Hong Kong subsidiary established in July 2022. The customer base is highly diversified across independent and chain dental laboratories producing crowns, bridges, removable partial dentures, and orthodontic appliances, with 95%+ domestic repurchase rates and 3-5% churn; CEO Wang Zhitao has stated that 70% of future business is expected to come from overseas markets.

Chamlion has raised more than 400 million yuan cumulatively across a Series A (Shandong Yinling Industrial Investment, 2020), a Series A+ led by Zhencheng Capital (140M yuan, 2021), and a Series B led by 3H Health Investment (236M yuan, April 2023) with Vertex Ventures China and Taihe Capital. The company holds CE, FDA, and UL certifications on multiple products, ISO 9001/14001, National High-tech Enterprise status, and MIIT first-batch typical additive-manufacturing application-scenario selection, and operates 1,000+ installed metal 3D printers globally with combined daily output of 80,000 dental crowns and 8,000 partial-denture frameworks. Future expansion signals include extension into spinal, hip, knee, and titanium-alloy cardiac stent verticals, plus new product lines in resin teeth, zirconia blocks, and invisible orthodontics.

Name

Chamlion

Legal name

Nanjing Chamlion Laser Technology Co., Ltd. (南京铖联激光科技有限公司)

Website

https://chamlion.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Chamlion (Nanjing Chamlion Laser Technology Co., Ltd.) provides an integrated digital-dentistry platform combining dental metal and DLP 3D printers, AI-based denture design software, proprietary printing materials, and the Chamlion Cloud distributed manufacturing platform serving 1,500+ dental laboratories across 27+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Dentistry 3D Printing Equipment and Services

NAICS

Dental Laboratories (339116)

SIC

Dental Equipment & Supplies (3843)

akta.pro primary industry

CAD/CAM Digital Design & Milling Centers (HLABAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing for Dental Prosthetics (HLABAJAF), Crown & Bridge (Fixed Prosthetics) Fabrication (HLABAJAA), Medical & Dental 3D Printing Services (patient-specific devices, dental labs) (IMAAADAG), Model/Die Work, Scanning & Case Digitization Services (HLABAJAJ)

Keywords

• Dental 3D printing
• Metal additive manufacturing
• Digital dentistry solutions
• CAD/CAM dental software
• Cloud manufacturing platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Nanjing

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Cloud-factory 3D printing services (HaaS): Hardware-as-a-Service model: customers place orders via Chamlion Cloud, the platform assigns tasks to the optimal global cloud factory, and Chamlion charges per-order service fees for printing, design, data processing, and post-processing. This is the company's primary revenue driver after its May 2021 strategic shift from pure equipment sales to service.
2. Hardware sales — metal 3D printers, DLP resin printers, polishing and heat-treatment equipment: One-time sale of dental 3D printers (titanium, cobalt-chrome metal printers and DLP resin printers), plasma polishers, heat-treatment furnaces, and other automation equipment to dental labs, including free in-house shipping of metal 3D printers to qualified RPD-specialist labs.
3. 3D printing materials (consumables): Recurring revenue from proprietary metal powders (titanium, cobalt-chrome), photopolymer resins, polishing salts, and titanium-zirconia alloy implant materials supplied to operators of Chamlion printers globally.
4. Software licensing — 3D print control, data processing, AI CAD: Software products including 3D-print equipment control software, data-processing software, and AI-based intelligent dental-design software, sold to localize dental 3D-printing software stacks previously monopolized by foreign CAD/CAM vendors.
5. Centralized design and data-processing services: Chamlion operates an in-house design and data-processing team of several hundred people plus a global data center, providing remote CAD design and STL/Nesting data-processing services to dental labs worldwide.
6. After-sales service, maintenance, and Chamlion Academy training: Recurring after-sales service contracts, on-site installation / commissioning / maintenance, and paid training programs at Chamlion Academy to upskill operators and partner labs.

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Chamlion provides end-to-end digital dentistry solutions through a vertically integrated stack of dental metal 3D printers (titanium and cobalt-chrome SLM systems), DLP resin printers, proprietary AI-based denture design software, self-developed printing materials, automated post-processing equipment, and a global Chamlion Cloud platform that connects dental laboratories to a distributed network of more than 260 cloud factories across 27+ countries for on-demand digital denture manufacturing.

Product overview

Chamlion (Nanjing Chamlion Laser Technology Co., Ltd.) sells a platform-plus-modules architecture for digital dentistry rather than a single product. The architecture centers on the Chamlion Cloud (铖联云) digital service platform, which connects global dental laboratories to a distributed network of more than 260 cloud factories across 27+ countries. Underpinning the cloud are Chamlion's core hardware — dental metal 3D printers (the NCL-M2150T titanium and NCL-M2150X cobalt-chrome lines plus the first-generation M200 and newer models), DLP resin 3D printers, plasma polishers, and heat treatment furnaces — together with the company's self-developed Chamlion AI Intelligent Denture Design Software and 3D printing control / data processing software, and Chamlion's proprietary dental printing materials (metal powders, photopolymer resins, polishing salts). On top of this stack sit Chamlion's consumer-facing dental product brands, Yakemei® (雅可美® laser-cladding titanium brackets and micro-cladding titanium crowns) and Eversmile® (恒笑® micro-cladding dentures), as well as a Designer Order-Taking module (outsource.dentcham.cn) and an after-sales service portal. Chamlion Academy provides the vocational training pipeline that feeds the ecosystem with qualified dental 3D printing technicians.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dental Metal 3D Printers (NCL-M2150T titanium and NCL-M2150X cobalt-chrome models)

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.2% print qualification rate on Chamlion's exclusive process
• +7 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor (regional market-development partner), core (academic / talent partner), core (clinical co-development partner), minor (joint project applicant), minor (industrial-park branch), minor (r&d branch), flagship (incubator) and core (incubation / cluster partner).

• Tajikistan channel partners (unnamed)minor (regional market-development partner)Channel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 September 2022Tajik partners hosted Chamlion in-country for seminars and printer demonstrations in mid-2022, introducing the dental applications of Chamlion printers to the Tajik market and exploring mutually beneficial cooperation. The Uzbek partner network was also engaged in parallel.
• Southeast Universitycore (academic / talent partner)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2022School-enterprise cooperation under which 50+ faculty and students from Southeast University's Electronic Science and Technology program visited Chamlion in August 2022 for on-site learning about commercial applications of 3D printing; supports Chamlion Academy's student-internship and recruitment pipeline.
• Nanjing Stomatology Hospitalcore (clinical co-development partner)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2022Co-applicant with Chamlion and NUAA of the 'Smart Manufacturing System and Clinical Application of Removable Partial Dentures' project, listed in Nanjing's 2022 Life and Health Science and Technology Special Project in July 2022; supports clinical validation of Chamlion's digital denture workflow.
• Shangshi Technologyminor (joint project applicant)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2022Co-applicant with Chamlion, Nanjing Stomatology Hospital, and NUAA on the 'Smart Manufacturing System and Clinical Application of Removable Partial Dentures' project listed under Nanjing's 2022 Life and Health Special Project.
• Shandong Digital 3D Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Parkminor (industrial-park branch)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2020Industrial-park branch established in Shandong in September 2020 to scale Chamlion's digital 3D intelligent manufacturing footprint in northern China.
• Jiaxing Digital 3D Intelligent Manufacturing Research Instituteminor (r&d branch)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2020Branch R&D institute established in Jiaxing in July 2020 to extend Chamlion's digital 3D intelligent manufacturing footprint into Zhejiang.
• Anhui Zhumeng 3D Intelligent Manufacturing Research Instituteminor (r&d branch)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2019Branch R&D institute established in Anhui in April 2019, expanding Chamlion's distributed 3D-intelligent-manufacturing footprint beyond Jiangsu.
• Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) — Additive Manufacturing Instituteflagship (incubator)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Chamlion was incubated by NUAA's Additive Manufacturing Institute and continues to be described in company materials as a 'NUAA-incubated national high-tech enterprise,' providing ongoing access to university research, talent, and joint project execution (e.g., the 2022 Life and Health Special Project on smart manufacturing of removable partial dentures).
• Nanjing Software Valley Venture Innovation Citycore (incubation / cluster partner)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Nanjing Software Valley Venture Innovation City incubated Chamlion from a small office in 2017 into a global dental digitalization company; Chamlion remains headquartered in the park (Yuhuatai District).

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• 3D Systems: US-listed 3D printing hardware and services company with a dedicated dental solutions portfolio (metal printers, resins, software) directly competing with Chamlion's end-to-end dental digital workflow.
• Stratasys: Global 3D printing incumbent offering dental-specific PolyJet and resin printers, materials, and software; competes head-to-head with Chamlion's DLP and metal dental printing stack.
• Formlabs: Leading SLA/DLP dental 3D printer vendor widely used by dental and orthodontic labs; directly comparable to Chamlion's DLP resin printer line and digital dental workflow offering.
• Desktop Metal (EnvisionTEC): Through its EnvisionTEC acquisition, Desktop Metal sells DLP dental 3D printers and materials to dental labs, overlapping directly with Chamlion's resin printing and digital dentistry positioning.
• Carbon: Digital Light Synthesis 3D printing company with a strong dental and orthodontic customer base; competes with Chamlion on resin-based dental production and software-driven workflows.
• Prodways Group: European 3D printing company (MOVINGLight/DLP technology) serving dental and medical markets; directly comparable to Chamlion's dental DLP printer and materials business.
• Asiga: DLP 3D printer manufacturer with deep penetration in dental labs worldwide; directly comparable to Chamlion's DLP resin dental printing product line.
• SprintRay: Dental-focused 3D printing ecosystem (printers, resins, software) targeting dental practices and labs; a focused dental peer comparable to Chamlion's lab-centric, vertically integrated model.
• DWS Systems: Italian SLA/DLP 3D printer maker with a dedicated dental lab product line; comparable to Chamlion's DLP dental printer and consumables offering.

Broad incumbents

• GE Additive: Large industrial metal additive manufacturing business (Concept Laser, Arcam) addressing aerospace, medical and dental; comparable as a broad metal AM incumbent against which Chamlion positions its SLM dental printers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Chamlion3D

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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