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GE’s aviation-focused manufacturing businesses GE Aerospace and GE Additive have laid out their vision for the future of industrial 3D printing via a tour around their US facilities.
Over the last decade, GE has steadily built out its 3D printing capabilities, buying Morris Technologies, Arcam and Concept Laser along the way. Utilizing its acquired technologies, the firm has managed to develop ground-breaking end-use parts for its own GE90, GE9X and Catalyst engines, as well as the LEAP engine of CFM International, a joint venture it established with Safran Aircraft Engines.
Perhaps the best known of these is the fabled GE 3D printed fuel nozzle tip. The component, which became something of a poster child…