Additive manufacturing: the next layer

Posted on 18 Oct 2017 by Jonny Williamson

Additive manufacturing has gone beyond being a revolutionary process and is now firmly in the mainstream. Which begs the question, what does the future hold and where are the gains to be made for manufacturers who have still to embrace the technology?

In this special focus, The Manufacturer looks at some routine and unusual ways in which additive manufacturing is being deployed, but first Nick Peters set out to get a glimpse of the future at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing at the University of Nottingham. Experimental multimaterial 3D printing of silver electronic…

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