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UL Expands 3D Activities to Singapore, Kentucky


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L, the testing and certifi cation company, is expanding its 3D printing activities, with planned facilities in Singapore and Kentucky.


UL in May announced it will open a Singapore center to conduct training and research. The same month, the North- brook, IL-based company said it was joining the University of Louisville to open an additive manufacturing training center. “We are working toward a series of these additive manu- facturing centers,” Simin Zhou, UL’s vice president of digital manufacturing technologies, said in a telephone interview from Singapore.


UL has 40% of its operations in Asia, Zhou said and the


Singapore operation, which is a partnership with the Singa- pore government, is intended to build upon that. “What attracted us to Singapore is there has been signifi cant investment to set themselves up as a research


and development hub for 3D printing,” she said. “They are completely focused on real production parts.” The Singapore center began operations in May. It’s start- ing with a staff of three and increase to 10 “within a couple of years,” she said.


The operation will focus on laser sintering technology. UL’s venture with the University of Louisville is scheduled to open this fall adjacent to the school’s campus. The Kentucky’s center formal name will be the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center. It will be part of the Uni- versity of Louisville’s Institute for Product Realization, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Louisville Research Foundation. The institute includes an additive manufacturing and prototype center. At the new training facility, UL and the university will collaborate on curriculum, and UL will manage sales and marketing of training classes. The training operation will start with two industrial machines and plans to expand that to six by 2017.


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