3D printing has huge potential to help decarbonise manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM), popularly called 3D printing, has an important role to play in greatly reducing the global manufacturing industry’s carbon emissions, Cape Town-based Evanswerks Labs co-founder and CEO Justin Evans tells Engineering News Online. “3D printing is not zero-carbon but it produces a lot less carbon emissions than conventional manufacturing,” he points out. Today, 3D printing can be done with metals, composites, polymers, ceramics and even biological materials. Regarding metals, a wide range can now be used – aluminium, cobalt chrome, copper, low ...
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