This year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) may have now come to a close, but the event served as a valuable meeting point for manufacturers both in and outside of the 3D printing industry.
With the show’s last edition canceled due to COVID-19, IMTS 2022 represented the first time McCormick Place has been able to host 3D printing, machining, injection molding and other production technology developers since 2018. As such, the show offered participants with a long-overdue chance to share new products, strike partnerships and network across industries.
Given the mixture of technologies on show, IMTS also provided a unique opportunity to weigh up the future of 3D printing, and identify where it stands in the wider world of manufacturing. In an effort to find out, 3D Printing Industry covered the event live from the showfloor, and has since reached out to…