Bambu Lab plans to start Bambu Circle in the Netherlands, creating a network of authorised local businesses offering printer services, sales and training, with a waiting list already accepting prospective partners across Europe. The company will present the programme at Formnext in Frankfurt am Main, November 17 to 20, alongside its nine-tool H3C printer and R1 laser cutter and engraver.
Bambu Lab says Germany and France will follow in early 2027, while people elsewhere in Europe can also register their interest. Participants will receive training and certification from Bambu Lab, which will oversee the network. Although registration extends across Europe, the initial pilot is limited to the Netherlands, where Bambu Lab says 58% of its surveyed users expressed interest in earning extra income through 3D printing.
The proposed work ranges from servicing machines locally and selling printers and materials on a small scale to producing prints for customers and running educational activities. Bambu Lab says the programme will centre on its own ecosystem and MakerWorld, and it is inviting applicants to propose additional ways to serve their communities. Its stated ambition is to put an authorised partner within an hour's drive of every European Bambu Lab user.
Visitors will also be able to inspect H3C, which Bambu Lab describes as its first third-generation 3D printer. Its Swaptek mechanism uses nine independently heated tools with separate filament routes, and the company claims switches take under six seconds. Attaching an older AMS through the first tool allows a job to use as many as 24 materials.
The H3C introduction earlier this month also included filament storage and drying, with two drying positions that top out at 85°C and can keep running during a print. Bambu Lab also claimed average job completion was more than 10% faster than its preceding flagship.
R1 takes Bambu Lab beyond printers for the first time, using a 55 W CO₂ laser to engrave and cut materials including acrylic and wood. The company specifies speeds reaching 1,000 mm/s and cutting capacity of 20 mm for acrylic or 18 mm for black walnut plywood. Bambu Lab will display its complete machine range at Booth G01 in Hall 12.1, with programme presentations and meetings scheduled on each of the show's four days.
