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In addition to its more traditional uses, the centrality of copper to an unusually large number of high-growth industries has led more than a few observers to argue that it could be the key industrial metal of the 21st century. At the same time, supply-side uncertainty has recently driven copper prices to all-time highs.
While that presents a massive economic challenge, it also represents a big opportunity for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry to demonstrate that AM can help improve efficiency in production workflows that depend on copper. That’s true, moreover, for areas of the AM value chain utilizing the lowest-cost desktop machines, not only for users of industrial systems targeting serial production. For instance, Indiana-based Kupros, Inc. makes an all-metal, conductive filam