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3D Printing News Briefs, October 6, 2021: Business, Guns, & Bridges
We’re starting with a little business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as EPLUS 3D and Shining 3D have issued a joint declaration. Optomec received an order from an OEM…
GE9X Engine with 3D Printed Components Receives FAA Certification
It was several years ago when GE first considered using 3D printing to make turbine blades and other components, like fuel nozzles, for its GE9X engine, the largest engine on…
Boeing 777x Takes First Flight with over 600 3D-Printed Parts
Sunday saw the maiden flight of the Boeing 777X, marking an important date in the history of 3D printing for the twin GE9X engines driving the aircraft. Each GE9X features…
GE Aviation Tests the Largest Jet Engine in the World, Featuring 3D Printed Fuel Nozzles
A year ago, GE Aviation began incorporating 3D printed components into their jet engines for the first time ever, retrofitting hundreds of their GE90 engines with 3D printed sensor housings. At that…
GE is Using 3D Printing and Their New Smart Factory to Revolutionize Large-Scale Manufacturing
When you’re a manufacturing company as large as General Electric it can sometimes be incredibly difficult to adapt and modernize. It isn’t so much that large corporations aren’t interested in…
GE Considers 3D Printing Turbine Blades for Next Generation Boeing 777X’s GE9X Engines
If one company should be considered the leader within the metal additive manufacturing space, that company should be General Electric. GE has been utilizing laser sintering to 3D print components…
