Market potential

Manufacturing investment at a five-year high, and a 3D printing market growing at nearly 17% a year

Vietnam's growth is driven by manufacturing. In the first nine months of 2026, disbursed foreign investment reached US$21.07 billion, the highest for the period in five years, with 82.6% (US$17.4 billion) going into manufacturing and processing. Registered foreign investment over the same period reached US$50.36 billion, up 76.4%, a sign that many more plants will open in the country in the years ahead.

Research firm IMARC puts Vietnam's 3D printing market at US$163.5 million in 2025 and forecasts US$709.6 million by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 16.83% over 2026–2034. Within it, aerospace 3D printing is forecast to grow from US$18.8 million in 2025 to US$83.9 million in 2034.

Market trends

Local production, resilient supply and self-reliant manufacturing

What Vietnamese manufacturers want is changing: local production, faster tooling, digital inventory, less downtime and less dependence on imported parts. Electronics, automotive-parts and consumer-goods plants keep expanding, and every new line adds demand for fixtures, tooling and spare parts that until now have mostly been machined by outside shops or imported, with lead times measured in weeks.

Additive manufacturing lets these parts be made inside the plant, where they are needed. A design file replaces physical inventory, and a part that used to wait on an outside shop or a shipment is printed the same day and fitted on the spot.

Defence and unmanned systems

A defence industry opening to private firms, with self-reliant production and sustainment in focus

Vietnam's Law on National Defence and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilisation took effect on 1 July 2025, bringing private companies into the defence industry for the first time. The US Department of Commerce's guide to Vietnam's defence sector notes that the country is reducing reliance on a single supplier of defence equipment, strengthening its domestic defence industrial base, and is interested in co-assembly and co-production.

What most often holds defence units back is not buying new equipment but keeping existing equipment running: parts go out of production, minimum order quantities far exceed need, and replacements from abroad take weeks. Markforged continuous-fibre composite and metal parts let units and factories make obsolete spares, tooling and gauges on site, and the X7 Field Edition can be taken out of the factory to where it is needed. The unmanned-systems industry likewise needs structural and functional parts where strength-to-weight drives the design and supply has to be local and dependable.

What it means for Vietnamese manufacturers

Additive manufacturing on the production line, not in the model shop

Markforged's objective in Vietnam is production use. Fixtures, soft jaws and robot grippers that factories now outsource to CNC shops can be printed in-house the same day, and the spare part a stopped line is waiting for can be made where it is needed. Markforged's continuous fiber reinforcement gives printed parts the strength to replace some machined metal parts.

The first systems cover three needs: the FX20 for large composite parts; the FX10, which with the Metal Kit produces both composite and metal parts on one platform; and the X7 Field Edition, which can be taken out of the factory to make parts where they are needed.

Local service

Two application centres, north and south, with service delivered in country

The centres in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are not showrooms. They are working sites where customers bring their own parts and have them printed and evaluated on the systems. Installation, training and after-sales service are delivered by teams in Vietnam rather than flown in for each visit.

TwoWay will build the authorised reseller network in Vietnam and provide quotations, supply and technical support to local resellers, so that factories across the country can get systems, materials and service close to home.

Scope of appointment

Four areas set out in the certificate

The certificate is issued by Markforged, Inc. as an act of the company and sets out four areas of authority for TwoWay as Master Distributor:

The authorised products are the Markforged industrial 3D printing line — FX10, FX20, X7, X7 Field Edition and the FX10 with Metal Kit for metal parts — together with Markforged materials and Digital Forge software and services. Brian Chen, Country Manager for Greater China and Vietnam, is the Markforged representative responsible for the territory.

What it means for Markforged

Building a long-term operating base in Vietnam

Vietnam is a priority growth market for Markforged in Greater China and Vietnam. 2026 is an investment year for Markforged in the country: the focus is on building the channel, the application centres and local service, not on short-term revenue — which is also why Markforged is selective about the partners it builds with.

With a Master Distributor in country, the Markforged systems already running in Vietnam, and the new plants that international manufacturers are opening there, can get systems, materials, training and technical support close at hand, extending the same Markforged manufacturing platform to Vietnamese production lines.

Markforged sets clear operating requirements for its partners in Vietnam, and reviews them regularly: sales, technical service and marketing teams resident in the country, application centres in operation in the north and the south, and certified application and service engineers able to install, maintain and train customers on the equipment.

What it means for TwoWay

From Taiwan partner to Master Distributor for Vietnam

TwoWay is Markforged's Diamond Partner in Taiwan and is itself a developer and manufacturer of RF and optical transmission equipment, familiar with what manufacturers demand on lead time and quality. The appointment extends the partnership from Taiwan to Vietnam, with TwoWay building the local team, application centres and reseller network as Markforged's long-term operating partner in the country.