GE to Develop High-Volume 3-D Printer Plant for Jet Engine Parts
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General Electric Co. will spend $50 million on developing a high-volume 3-D printing plant in Alabama as the world’s biggest maker of jet engines seeks alternatives to milled metal for its newest power-plant.
The project, announced today with Alabama Governor Robert Bentley at the Farnborough Air Show in England, builds on GE’s efforts to make 3-D printers a fixture on assembly lines rather than just tools to create plastic prototypes.