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• With verticals like defense/space and opportunities like the AI boom dominating so much of the current focus in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, it’s easy to forget one of the...
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With verticals like defense/space and opportunities like the AI boom dominating so much of the current focus in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, it’s easy to forget one of the original strategic sectors driving early AM adoption: medical. This is partially due to the fact that for applications like hearing aids and spinal implants, AM is so integral to the broader markets it’s a part of that it’s become less necessary to draw attention to the fundamental business case involved.
However, as the focus within AM for medical starts to shift towards applications that are relatively less mature — but no less intriguing — it seems likely that the medical sector could start to regain its traditional share of the AM industry’s attention span. CurifyLabs, the Finnish original equipment man