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• CECIMO, the European Association of Manufacturing Technologies, has officially unveiled AM-Europe, a dedicated continental platform designed to consolidate and amplify the additive manufacturing (AM) sector’s presence across Europe. The initiative marks a deliberate structural shift, transforming CECIMO’s longstanding but internally-focused AM activities into an outward-facing, inclusive ecosystem with a distinct European identity. Rather than a…
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CECIMO, the European Association of Manufacturing Technologies, has officially unveiled AM-Europe, a dedicated continental platform designed to consolidate and amplify the additive manufacturing (AM) sector’s presence across Europe. The initiative marks a deliberate structural shift, transforming CECIMO’s longstanding but internally-focused AM activities into an outward-facing, inclusive ecosystem with a distinct European identity.
Rather than a new organisation built from scratch, AM-Europe is best understood as the next stage in CECIMO’s multi-decade engagement with additive manufacturing. The association has long worked alongside industry players, research bodies, and EU policymakers to establish AM as a cornerstone of Europe’s industrial strategy. AM-Europe channels that accumulated e