GE to Develop High-Volume 3-D Printer Plant for Jet Engine Parts
General Electric Co. will spend $50 million on developing a high-volume 3-D printing plant in Alabama as the world’s biggest maker of jet engines seeks alternatives to milled metal for its newest power-plant.
The project, announced today with Alabama Governor Robert Bentley at the Farnborough Air Show in England, builds on GE’s efforts to make 3-D printers a fixture on assembly lines rather than just tools to create plastic prototypes.
Read more at: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-15/ge-to-develop-high-volume-3-d-printer-plant-for-jet-engine-parts
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