On December 11, the BRIDGE Summit concluded successfully at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. During the event, technology institutions, research teams, manufacturing innovators, and creative content forces from around the world gathered to exchange ideas—exploring how the wave of digitalization is reshaping next-generation industrial structures and signaling the future direction of technological transformation.
Among the many exhibitors, Chinese 3D-printing leader Boly Technology drew significant attention. What we presented was not merely a single product, but a complete rethinking of manufacturing—the next-generation digital manufacturing platform, PollyFab.
The debut of this platform not only showcased Boly’s technological strength in advanced manufacturing, but also carried a deeper meaning: Chinese enterprises are entering the global innovation arena with an entirely new industrial logic, contributing to the reshaping of the global innovation ecosystem and ushering smart manufacturing into a new narrative stage.
Solving the “Last Mile” of Creative Realization
In the global design community, a long-standing but often overlooked challenge persists: creativity frequently fails at the point where it disconnects from manufacturing. Many brilliant design ideas must compromise in order to meet the demands of large-scale industrial production. Mismatched material properties, impossible geometries, extended production cycles, and uncontrollable manufacturing costs…
Within traditional industrial workflows, these practical constraints are enough to halt creativity and push innovation into a bottleneck.
PollyFab’s value emerges precisely at this breaking point.
Through structural innovation, it is redefining this outdated pathway and truly bridging the “last mile” between creativity and production. On the platform, designers can use AI to analyze and match material performance, rapidly generating manufacturable solutions. HALS ultra-fast 3D printing enables one-step formation of complex geometries for quick validation. A systematic quality-verification and content-release mechanism ensures that creations connect with the public rapidly. And large-scale manufacturing capabilities guarantee that no idea stalls due to production limits.
This logic has been fully validated through our co-creation project with young designer Wei Zixiong. His avant-garde design brand SCRY, known for bold structures and forward-thinking 3D concepts, had long been constrained by traditional manufacturing—conventional processes simply couldn’t meet the demands of his designs, leaving many cutting-edge ideas stuck at the “on paper only” stage.
After integrating with PollyFab, the new SCRY footwear design was re-engineered into a digital model and algorithmically verified. With AI-matched material performance and one-click production access, the shoe was formed in a single process—with no molds and no structural limitations.
Within just a few weeks, the product—eventually named Scry-Shuttle—made a rapid leap from concept prototype to wearable final form. It ultimately debuted on the international fashion stage, creating a significant buzz and becoming a real-world example of the emerging new design ecosystem.
In this system, manufacturing is no longer a barrier that blocks innovation—it becomes an integral part of innovation itself. At PollyFab, craftsmanship evolves as an extension of creativity, and manufacturing becomes a positive force within the creative pipeline.
A New Industrial “Peak Moment”:
The Structural Significance of PollyFab
In recent years, Chinese manufacturing has secured a major role in the global supply chain through scale and efficiency. However, in the era of digitalization and intelligent production, traditional manufacturing chains can no longer fully support the needs of creativity-driven workflows, rapid prototyping, and cross-regional collaboration. When material science, algorithmic logic, and digital fabrication work together within an integrated system, manufacturing gains a new kind of high knowledge density—becoming a core part of the innovation process.
PollyFab functions more like an ecosystem—one capable of absorbing ideas, reshaping processes, and generating new value. Through the integration of full-stack capabilities, it builds a structural foundation that can be used by creative communities worldwide. This structural impact is especially evident in the many design collaborations presented by Borui at the summit.
Brands like SCRY, which has walked the Paris Fashion Week runway; ALIVEFORM, featured at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore; Starline, which lit up the Cannes red carpet; as well as multiple soft-tissue bionic structures enabling intelligent robotics—designers across fashion, art, industrial design, consumer goods, and cultural innovation are using PollyFab to bring previously impossible structures to life.
With PollyFab, their ideas no longer need to conform to the logic of molds; instead, creativity evolves alongside materials and structural algorithms, achieving a unity of aesthetics and engineering rarely seen in traditional manufacturing systems.
Industrial Transformation Through a Global Lens
In recent years, Abu Dhabi has positioned an “AI-native industrial ecosystem” as a strategic priority, aiming to shift its economy from resource-driven to high–value creation. Against this backdrop, the BRIDGE Summit is not looking for a single technology—it is seeking an industrial capability that can generate long-term, continuous innovation.
PollyFab aligns seamlessly with this vision:
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It enables creative ideas to move freely across the world;
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It allows industrial validation to happen at lower cost and higher flexibility;
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And it lets local industries access next-generation manufacturing without massive upfront investment.
At the summit, representatives from institutions across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe engaged in in-depth discussions with the PollyFab team on topics including industrial applications, flexible robotic structures, and consumer-product innovation.
What they saw was not just “a technology from a Chinese company,” but a new model for global industrial collaboration—one that builds dynamic connections between local creative ecosystems and global manufacturing resources. This approach allows industries to upgrade not through massive capital investment, but through a new way of organizing technology.Explore Every Peak Moment
PollyFab’s philosophy can be distilled into three words: Create, Fabricate, Resonate.
The platform not only enables ideas to be realized, but also empowers creators worldwide to share manufacturing capabilities—ensuring that every attempt begins with real, feasible support.As embodied in its slogan, “Explore Every Peak Moment,” PollyFab encourages bold exploration and fearless innovation. In an era shaped by digitalization and intelligent manufacturing, the future is not something to wait for—it is something built by those who dare to create.
On the open, diverse, and forward-looking international stage of the BRIDGE Summit, PollyFab’s debut showcased the ambition and real-world progress of Chinese enterprises in shaping the future of manufacturing. As digital technology and material science continue to drive industrial transformation, every moment of innovation may become the starting point for the next leap in modern industry.
