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“New materials are an important element in the next chapter of additive manufac- turing,” said Ed Herderick director of R&D for rp+m (Avon, OH). “It is impossible to overemphasize how important developing new materials are right now for the field. In many ways, it is the question the industry is addressing,” he said. Herderick a frequent speaker at trade shows stresses in his talks the need to free engineers from the constraints dictated by existing manufacturing techniques. “In order to free designers you must supply them with materials that they can understand and they can design against,” he said.
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multiplying, especially in composites and multimetal applications unique to the field.
A direct metal deposition machine from DM3D in action.