MELD Manufacturing has commercialized a metal production process that promises to enable 3D printing to carve out a greater role in the manufacturing sector.

Until recently, manufacturers’ efforts to apply 3D printing in large-scale production areas have been thwarted by inherent limitations of the technology. Traditional metal printing processes can suffer from spatially restrictive deposition chambers, slow production rates, and undesirable physical properties. MELD’s technology boasts capabilities that could well sweep aside these barriers, enabling additive manufacturing (AM) to make greater inroads in the industrial sector.

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