SLM Solutions and EADS Innovation Works have signed a cooperation agreement to work together on metal alloys for use in additive manufacturing techniques and SLM systems.
3D Systems Corporation has announced that it plans to exhibit its growing Aerospace Manufacturing capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, AUVSI 2012 Conference and Exposition.
A process to fabricate or 3D print a product layer by layer using additive manufacturing equipment is now on trial to demonstrate this possibility and the International Space Station may be the ideal spot for perfecting the scheme.
You might think this idea is impossible since the biggest 3D printers today are about the size of a dining table, but 3D printing is vastly increasing in popularity due to innovators pushing it in extraordinary ways...