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Bionic Arm Advocate Tilly Lockey Speaks at the SingularityU South Africa Summit

Last week Tilly Lockey went on stage at the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the SingularityU South African (SA) Summit, for a one on one with Benji Rosman, Principal Researcher in the Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems group at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The no-filter, expert public speaker, activist, and model has been touring the world to talk about her incredible bionic arms. And did we forget to mention she’s only 14 years old? Her triumphant take on life is breathtaking, known for opening up about the illness responsible for the loss of both hands at a very early age, as well as her upbeat and confident attitude. Throughout the last few years, Tilly has been a massive force for children, helping prosthetic companies develop customized products suited for kids. Today she is an ambassador for Open Bionics, a UK-based firm developing low-cost bionic hands, also known as Hero Arms.

Benjamin Rosman and Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU SA Summit (Credit: SingularityU South Africa)

Tilly was one of three speakers of the Summit’s Biotech and Medicine segment, along with Habib Frost, who talked about the future of medicine and technological advancements, and Kim Hulett who discussed designer babies. Showcasing her incredibly sleek bionic arms, Tilly focused on her vision for the human-machine convergence of the future.

According to SingularityU SA, during the segment titled Benjamin Rosman in Conversation with Tilly Lockey: What’s Possible in the Future, the two examined the connection between technology and human beings.

“Think about all the things you do with your hands on a daily basis. These hands help me both physically and mentally,” said Tilly. “All the money used to go to the aesthetics of the hands, how they looked and not how they worked.”

With an estimated five million upper limb amputees globally, companies like Open Bionics are essential to build and develop the next generation of bionic limbs, in what Rosman referred to as “turning disabilities into superpowers.” Technology is not only changing how prosthetics work. Prosthetics can be heavy, which is something to keep in mind when developing bionic arms for kids. Growing up also means that hands need to be recreated and replaced at least yearly. With Open Bionics, things began to change, the company 3D prints the prosthetics from plastic, making them lightweight and more affordable, while the cost lies in the battery and the motors on the inside. A pair of 3D printed bionic arms can often reach around £10,000 (that’s roughly 12,800 dollars), which often means a lot of fundraising is involved.

“Now kids get excited when they see me. My arms look like something out of an action movie, like from Marvel. They give other kids the idea that their disability is their superpower,” suggested Tilly.

Actually, she is not so far off from the cinematic universe. Last January, she received a pair of Alita: Battle Angel bionic arms from director James Cameron. The multi-grip functionality Hero Arms were designed by the team behind the movie, and Cameron invited her to the premiere of the highly awaited sci-fi futuristic action film where she got to show everyone her brand new hands.

The Hero Arm is now available through private prosthetic clinics for people with below-elbow upper limb differences, aged nine and above. They are considered the first medically certified 3D printed bionic arm. They are engineered and manufactured in Bristol, UK, in a lightweight and affordable myoelectric prosthesis, now also available in the US and France for below-elbow amputee adults and children.

Open Bionics ensures that each Hero Arm is custom-built using 3D printing and 3D scanning technologies. They claim the prosthesis is robust, and the socket is comfortable, adjustable and breathable too, which means it’s easy to take on and off. It’s a powered bionic limb controlled by the muscles, with intuitive lifelike precision. Additionally, it consists of a breathable removable socket for enhanced ventilation and easy cleaning, powered by high-performance motors, advanced software and long-lasting batteries. The hand, which comes in three sizes, is the lightest on the market but extremely strong, able to lift up to eight kilograms.

The inspiring Tilly Lockey, who was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis as a 15-month old baby, lost both of her arms, yet her role as a leader in the development of technology in the field of prosthetics is very important and she has been working with Open Bionics for the past four years, providing input that became fundamental in the right development of bionic limbs. Her presentation draws on her personal experience using two 3D printed, customized arms, and her role as a leader in the development of technology in this field.

Tilly at the SIngularityU South Africa Summit (Image credit: SingularityU South Africa)

Tilly revealed during the presentation that she has added a few personal tweaks to her hands, providing customization (and sometimes crazy feature) feedback, to Open Bionics over the last years. What makes Tilly’s arms different–compared to regular, humanlike prosthetics–is that they have additional modes over and above open and close. All bionic advanced prosthetic arms work differently. What’s more, is that they’re personalized in terms of sensitivity, they work on flexing and releasing muscles.

The teen is very optimistic as to what the company will be able to do in the next five years, perhaps eventually offering features like projectors, a voice assistant, Bluetooth speakers, and even Haptic Touch feedback. Up until now, the company developers have proven that they can create much more than a simple open and close bionic arm, so expectations run high.

Tilly was able to help reimagine what a prosthetic extension could look like, welcoming a future where disabilities don’t hold her back, instead they become “superpowers.” She has a lot of followers and a massive presence among young people, often admitting that she enjoys the questions many kids make about her arms. The young role model suggested that creating new interesting technology is one thing, but it also needs to address gaps in society, moving out of research labs and into everyday lives.

Tilly Lockey at the Alita: Battle Angel premiere wearing her new Hero Arms (Image credit: Open Bionics)

SingularityU SA is the first African Country Partner and seeks to work with established businesses, entrepreneurs, and future innovators to create new opportunities for innovation and impact in the country. The education giant wants to “future proof Africa” by empowering its people to create abundant, sustainable, and holistic ways of living and working.

The World Health Organization states that just one in 10 people with physical disabilities in the developing world have access to technologies that could assist them, and with over ten million amputees around the world, this is certainly an innovation we need to advance. Making prosthetics available quicker, cheaper and better can solve one of Africa and the world’s challenges.

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3D Printed Sensors Could Be The Key to a Seamless Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been heralded as one of the next big steps in our technological development. The vision is somewhat utopian: the system collects information, relaying it swiftly throughout a hyperconnected network and uses that data to discover insights and take action in order to improve our daily lives. It could save energy by making devices more efficient, optimize areas like infrastructure and traffic, help with waste management and personal health, and do so much more.

The capabilities of the IoT are a result of many factors, but one fundamental aspect to consider is the sensing tech that will be used to collect data throughout IoT systems. Not only must we consider the strength and power of these sensors, but we must also consider how we are going to create such a massive amount of the devices in order to adequately track the large waves of data created out in the world.

This is where 3D printing technology and the use of nanomaterials come into play. When utilized together, they can help create the seamless and powerful IoT that we envision.

The strengths of 3D printing

3D printing is a rapidly evolving technology that has the potential to provide a great deal of value within scientific, industrial, and even everyday settings. One could viably see the technology utilized to create and mass-produce the bulk of IoT sensors. At the very least, the additive manufacturing process can help in designing optimal enclosures for the electronic components of sensors. Because of this process, it’s easy to modify or add new features to the enclosure without having to start from scratch. This flexibility would certainly benefit in the creation of sensors as they develop and change form or function.

But exciting developments in 3D printing electronic components are what will truly unlock the mass-production of strong and capable IoT sensors. The use of conductive ink — an ink for 3D printing infused with conductive materials such as copper, silver, and gold — can enable us not only to conveniently print electronics, but to also remove the constraints of the traditional 2D circuit board. By creating three-dimensional circuit boards that can take on a number of different shapes or sizes, we will be able to build a more versatile array of devices. And importantly, this can consolidate and speed up the creation of IoT sensors.

Bringing nanomaterials into play

Aside from developments in 3D printing sensors like conductive ink, we can also turn to nanomaterials, which are often cited for their high-functioning capabilities. In particular, graphene is considered an ideal material for sensors: it’s durable, flexible, highly conductive, and can detect changes in the environment through factors such as temperature, light, pressure, and can even sense chemical changes. A massive amount of research has gone into unlocking the capabilities of graphene, and its use in sensors can help provide the IoT with accurate information and greater resilience.

This means that it can address both the external and internal needs of IoT sensors (i.e. the creation of a strong and resilient enclosure and of highly capable electronic parts). And seeing as how 3D printing could be instrumental for enabling the creation of sensors on a far greater scale, it stands to reason that pairing this process with graphene would be an immense boost to the capabilities of an IoT system.

IoT sensors, in order to provide accurate measurements on the environment around them, must be strong enough to withstand harsh conditions such as rain and snow, or some industrial cases, be strong enough to withstand extreme heat or even salt erosion from marine-based applications. For more traditional metals and materials, the elements could quickly wear at the tech, which could result in inaccurate data that would disrupt the IoT system. It would also be highly inefficient to constantly replace sensors, making durable nanomaterials as the ideal base for creating sensors.

Fighting headwinds and promising developments

But the other hurdle to overcome revolves around the sheer number of sensors that we’ll need to run IoT systems. Market researchers estimate that there are already more than 20 billion connected devices in today’s world, and that number will only continue to grow as we become more technologically advanced and seek to bring about a true IoT. The sheer number of devices translates to an equally massive amount of sensors, and making advanced, nanomaterial-based sensing tech for widespread use is a monumentally challenging endeavor, especially as mass-producing nanomaterials like graphene have proven difficult in the past. In addition, the cost of implementing so many sensors may give many pause over pursuing such a cause, even if the nanomaterial-based sensors are so capable.

The “wonder material” graphene, which has historically been troublesome to produce, has recently seen potential breakthroughs that will allow scientists to create higher quantities, which in the case of 3D printing IoT sensors means that printers could very well have plenty of material to work with.

SEM images of Graphene Oxide ink

Scientists have also recently experimented with 3D printing objects with graphene, which could prove to be the final key in unlocking nanomaterial-based sensors for the IoT. Researchers in China have discovered a way to utilize the virtually 2D material to create 3D objects by using a graphene oxide ink, and have successful used the nanomaterial to create tiny supercapacitors.

Graphene-based cilia inspired sensors.

It’s not far-fetched to say that if graphene ink can be used to 3D print batteries, sensor tech can’t be too far behind. For instance, graphene has been used to 3D print biologically-inspired cilia sensors that imitate how creatures in nature sense their surroundings. Paired with other developments in printing sensor tech, such as integration with wearables, the scientific world has taken a massive step toward making the process of mass-producing nanomaterial-based sensors faster and more affordable.

The development of sensing tech and the need to overcome the various obstacles in their creation and implementation are issues that seem to fly under the radar when discussing the amazing possibilities presented by the Internet of Things. But in spite of these challenges, the IoT is purported to hit the mainstream by 2020. And when looking at the trajectory of 3D printing and nanotechnology for sensor use, it’s clear that we are well on our way to achieving a seamless sensor-based IoT.

Don Basile is a Venture Capitalist and writer and you can find him here.

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Interview with Josh Martin the CEO of Fortify on Fiber Reinforced DLP

We’re so used to 3D printing being disruptive that we don’t, in my opinion, worry enough about being disrupted ourselves. Much 3D printing news is a seemingly endless me-too copycat conga line so we need to recognize when someone is doing something original. Fortify is doing something original, something original that is potentially disruptive to the 3D printing industry. The company has come out of obscurity to raise over $13 million for an integrated 3D printing solution for fiber-reinforced parts. Fortify is making strong DLP parts and can even align the fibers in these parts. Through correct fiber alignment inside a part, Fortify could potentially create properties that others could not match. Novel fibers could be used to make parts weakly magnetic but only in certain sections for example. Also tougher, stiffer and more durable DLP resin parts may take a traditionally smooth and detailed technology into new applications. Through better microstructural control the company could outperform other players by a significant margin. Boeing was already trying to put SLA parts on aircraft in the mid-nineties, will Fortify make that a reality? Or will light-cured resins always be brittle with low CSTs no matter how many fibers you put in them? Will their technology find broad adoption? Fortify has the potential to be truly disruptive if they through business development find, conquer and commercialize completely new parts and applications in spaces where their technology wins. Or the company could keep on seeking adoption and find only skepticism for a firm going its own way. Either way the company is going to have a very exciting number of years ahead of it. We interviewed Fortify CEO Josh Martin to find out more.

How did Fortify get started?

Fortify spun out of my research at Northeastern University. I completed my P.hD. under Professor Randall Erb at the DAPS (Directed Assembly of Particles and Suspensions) lab focusing on printing advanced composites. Throughout that process, I linked up with a few other engineers (Scott Goodrich, Andrew Caunter, and Dan Shores) at NEU and we decided to commercialize the technology. Around the same time,  Karlo Delos Reyes (one of Fortify’s Co-Founders) brought funding to the University for graduate students to turn their research and technology into a company (what is now called the Origin Program). We were lucky that the additive manufacturing space was gaining acknowledgement and needed new materials to continue serving a variety of industries. All of these pieces came together and propelled us to join MassChallenge (the largest accelerator for startups) where we were the 2016 Gold Winner. Since 2016, we’ve closed two rounds of Venture Capital financing, totaling $13M.

What is it that you do?

Fortify is creating engineering solutions by leveraging fiber reinforced additive manufacturing. We are commercializing DCM (Digital Composite Manufacturing), a platform that combines software, hardware, and materials for a fully integrated additive solution that will replace many bulk machined parts and enable new levels of performance through 3D printing.

How does it work?

The Digital Composite Manufacturing platform leverages traditional digital light projection technology to print accurate parts with high resolution. Our hardware system leverages new types of processing to print filled UV curable resins. Particle alignment and process control is driven by our software, which can utilize finite element analysis to optimize the end product.

How do you optimize for microstructural control?

Control over the microstructure is driven by our electromagnetic alignment technology – fluxprint. Optimization is reached by simulation based techniques, which allow us to use boundary conditions on a part to predict a best-case alignment protocol.

How do you align the fibers?

Our electromagnetic alignment technology – fluxprint – allows for control over the orientation of our reinforcing additives. Part of our unique value add is the ability to tailor the response of a number of different reinforcing materials.

So these are short fibers? 

In most cases, yes. Using aligned short fibers allows us to strike a unique balance of mechanical performance and processability.

Does this mean that you can also do magnetic parts?

Yes, this would be quite easy for us to accomplish. It’s worth mentioning that we currently tailor our materials so that the end-part has no bulk magnetic response.

How do your parts compare with traditional composites?

Traditional continuous fiber composites involve many labor intensive processes to achieve very high levels of performance. Applications that require large structural components (such as wind turbines and airplanes) will continue to leverage the traditional composite supply chain. However, for smaller and more complex parts, the cost to manufacture traditional composites often outweighs the performance benefit. Fortify is excited to bring our materials into these types of applications. Short fiber-filled engineering materials, such as glass-filled Ultem or PEEK, can be processed into more complex parts while providing valuable performance gains. However, these materials still present challenges that require machining operations and impose design constraints. Fortify is targeting a material performance-processability space that will directly compete with short-fiber filled engineering resins, and bridge the gap between filled engineering polymers and traditional composites.

Which materials can you do?

We are currently focusing our development on a number of ceramic reinforcements. We combine this with engineering thermosets from well known industrial suppliers like Henkel, DSM, and BASF.

Aren’t these DLP materials too brittle?

Thermoset materials used in DLP technologies have made tremendous progress towards improved toughness. Fortify is excited to improve performance measured by fracture and impact toughness using our alignment technology.

Can you produce parts with a lot of cross-sectional area?

Yes, Fortify is not limited to printing latticed parts. Most of our injection mold tools are printed with a fully dense cross-section.

Is it problematic that composites are difficult to recycle?

It has been a focus of the industry for a while now. There are new recyclable thermoset systems coming to the market, but the performance keeps them from competing with the incumbent supply chain. Fortify is keeping an eye on this space, because we believe our additive technology could be used to bridge the gap, enabling fiber reinforced recyclable systems that can compete on a performance basis with traditional materials.

What are some of the emerging applications?

Our beachhead application at the moment is injection mold tooling. This is an application sought after by the 3DP space for a few decades. The relatively low adoption barrier makes it a great entrance into the market to allow us to prove our technology as we develop for production parts. Fortify is excited to develop towards applications that need better performance at temperature, such as electrical connectors, as well as other industries that require precision parts with wear resistance, such as gears and electromechanical components.

Will you sell machines, be a service?

We are looking to provide hardware systems and consumables to OEM’s and contract manufacturers.

Who are you interested in partnering with?

We are actively seeking beta program partners. The perfect partner would be an organization that isn’t completely new to additive, so has some familiar background, and has an exciting application that fits the small, complex geometry, high mechanical application space. This is an exciting time to join the Fortify network as we continue to prove our technology for EUP and streamline production and manufacturing for composites in real world applications. 

What advice do you have for a company new to 3D printing that wants to use it for manufacturing?

Get the right decision makers involved from the beginning when identifying areas of the business that would benefit from the use of additive. Each use case likely has a bias towards a particular technology. Once that technology is identified, it will take dedicated resources to validate and exercise the use case.

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Dezeen Day October 30th 2019

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I am beginning my journey of international conferences and events. I will have a nice miniature vacation with my trip to London this week. Outside of this brief respite, I have two conferences on my agenda. The first one will be Dezeen Day in London. I value the way knowledge can expand our knowledge and thought process and mindset. As a journalist, my main form of learning is through research and digging through archives. I was looking for various conferences for design and saw that this was in London. So I bought my ticket for London. Then I contacted some of the lovely staff at Dezeen Day and they arranged for me to attend the event! It is awesome being able to learn through being around others in professional fields. In this article, I will briefly explain what Dezeen Day is and a bit of why I am intrigued about the event.

Dezeen Day

So here is a shameless story about my childhood. Adults ask children this silly question of what do you want to be when you grow up. I, as a child, said I wanted to be an architect. Looking back at that I am far from this, but I do have some skills that would be under an architect’s tool belt. I am an avid drawer and I have a mathematically inclined brain. Design thinking is fun for me, and in general, I like building things. Dezeen Day is an international architecture, interiors, and design conference that will be held in London on October 30th. The conference will be trying to set the agenda for the global design community. This conference focuses on the concept of circular design, new materials, and educational resources. There is an emphasis on highlighting burgeoning talent from around the world. A keynote lecture will be given by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and British multidisciplinary artist, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. 

BFI Southbank London

Dezeen Day will be held at the newly renovated BFI Southbank in London. This day will also have the Dezeen Awards winners’ party, where award winners from around the world will receive their trophies. Dezeen Awards is an annual awards program, that identifies the world’s best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing great work. It is a great opportunity to see design and what people are doing in the field internationally.

I am excited to see what the day has in store for me. I’ll be getting a sneak peek of what is to come a couple of days before the actual conference. So be sure to tune into my own reflections and coverage of the event this week.

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Why Design Thinking is the Key to 3D Printing

3D printing is spreading far and wide and is being used by hobbyists, students, academicians, engineers, and industry professionals. The technology has heralded the new age of manufacturing. One of the keys to its success? Design thinking.

What is Design Thinking?

Design thinking is an approach to new product development, strategy development and for ‘truly’ meeting customers’ needs. It’s used to provide a framework which helps engineers, designers, and new product development teams to identify a problem or opportunity and to find appropriate solutions to those pressing problems.

Design thinking is defined by three steps:

Empathy

Empathy, or human centeredness, is the first step in the design thinking process. It literally means empathizing with the customers to understand their desired and unmet needs and to identify what they really want from the solution to their problem. This step focusses on keeping the human at the center of the problem-solving sphere. Only by focusing all the efforts on identifying the core needs of the customer will the product be designed to their needs.

Ideation

The second step is to ideate. To generate a stream of ideas to solve those identified needs. It is impossible to incorporate the needs of the customer in a single or a couple of ideas, so the objective is to generate a wider range of ideas.

Experimentation

The last step of the design thinking process is important from a product manufacturing point of view. This step encourages the engineers to experiment with the ideas created in the earlier step. Experimentation is extremely important for understanding the customer’s reactions and feedback on the generated ideas.

Four Important Considerations of Design Thinking

Graphic by Abhimanyu Chavan

A more profound approach to design thinking makes four important considerations: human considerations, business considerations, technical considerations, & environmental considerations.

Human Considerations

These considerations directly relate to empathizing with the customer to understand their needs.

Business Considerations

Apart from understanding needs and generating a lot of ideas, it’s also important to understand the business considerations. The products should fall under a business model and it should have a viable business sense in manufacturing and selling those products.

The products should give a return on investment and has to generate sufficient profits. Special care should be taken to avoid an instance where all ideas are converted into products.

Technical Considerations

This relates to the technicality of the product: manufacturability, durability, economics and other such technicalities that can hamper the product and indirectly the brand which sells it.

Environmental Considerations

As people are becoming more aware of the environment and constantly demand sustainable products, it becomes critical to think of the environmental impact of the product as well. This relates to the considerations regarding environment-friendly materials, processes, and resource saving.

Why design thinking is the key to 3D Printing success?

For a long time, engineers have been creating products through the traditional manufacturing process by designing products in a certain way. But now with the advent of 3D printing, the designing and manufacturing rules have changed. We now have to evolve the designing process in order to manufacture products in a new way, making design thinking important to 3D printing.

By implementing the design thinking approach, manufacturers can take advantage of the capabilities of 3D printing to create products that revolve around the customer’s needs.

3D printing is a technology that has the capability to rapidly iterate, as 3D models can be rapidly manufactured using a 3D printer. The prototype can then be tested for any functional or design discrepancies. If any, the model can be modified and again 3D printed as rapidly as the first time and again tested for any errors.

The multitude of ideas generated in the ideation phase of design thinking can be rapidly manufactured and experimented with to shortlist the best products which will be introduced in the market.

As much as 3D printing is important for the sustenance of the design thinking approach, design thinking is also equally, if not more, important for the success of 3D printing.

Design Thinking and 3D Printing at Crossroads

For a long time design thinking approach has been relegated to the books and mostly seen as a theoretical approach when in fact it is more than relevant in today’s world where the products are manufactured and push-marketed to customers to satisfy their undesired needs. The core solutions are still far from reality.

On the other hand, we are witnessing a manufacturing revolution pioneered by 3D printing. 3D printing is a revolutionary technology that has given designers unprecedented freedom to design complex products. It has helped engineers to manufacture complex parts that were previously impossible to produce. It has sped up the time-to-market by cutting down the tooling time. This has also resulted in immense cost-savings to manufacture those tools to start with.

And so, it’s time to think critically and ponder how the world will move forward. Today, 3D printing and design thinking are at crossroads where they should be studied and applied together to achieve innovative and customized results.

Applying design thinking principles for new product development can lead to a better understanding of the advantages of 3D printing technology and how it is a boon for manufacturers from all sectors. By designing products without any constraints and manufacturing them rapidly, there is a common acceptance that design thinking is the key to the success of 3D printing and both these together can prove to be the driving force behind the current manufacturing revolution.

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Make your own Jurassic Park goggles using a Raspberry Pi #MakeSomething #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi #3DPrinting #IoT

Charming video showing every step of the build. She does a great job showing all the fails and less glamorous maker moments.

From Raspberry Pi:

When we invited Estefannie Explains It All to present at Coolest Projects International, she decided to make something cool with a Raspberry Pi to bring along. But being Estefannie, she didn’t just make something a little bit cool. She went ahead and made Raspberry Pi Zero-powered Jurassic Park goggles, or, as she calls them, the world’s first globally triggered, mass broadcasting, photon-emitting and -collecting head unit.

Read more! Video from Estefannie Explains it All on YouTube:

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Dubai Unveils World’s Largest On-Site 3D Printed Building

Dubai has just unveiled a major milestone in construction printing technologies. The region’s new building in Warsan now holds the Guinness record for largest on-site 3D printed construction. The two-storey building also meets all the stringent building standards and has undergone a year of testing. The project was in development with the help of Apis […]

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ENGIE additive manufacturing facility approved by Lloyd’s Register

An additive manufacturing facility and powder laboratory belonging to French multinational electric utility company ENGIE has received official approval from global independent assessment business, Lloyd’s Register. One of a number of facilities to achieve this accreditation in the last few years, the site, located in Belgium, joins other businesses on the path to market for certified, metal 3D […]