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• 14 Trees and Tvasta have launched a new construction 3D printer. The Cedar is a large-format gantry-style printer similar to the COBOD. Tvasta is an Indian automation firm founded in...
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14 Trees and Tvasta have launched a new construction 3D printer. The Cedar is a large-format gantry-style printer similar to the COBOD. Tvasta is an Indian automation firm founded in 2016 that produces 3D printers, software, and pumps in India. 14 Trees, meanwhile, is a joint venture between cement company Holcim, British International Investment, and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. This is, of course, hilarious, akin to working with Philip Morris and the government to finance the manufacture of light cigarettes overseas.
But 14 Trees has experience in difficult places and has been engineered in India, and with the experience of working in those places, it should help the printer work in remote environments. It’s one thing to make something that works perfectly in a factory, but another to