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Dubai: Dubai’s flagship carrier Emirates has completed the retrofit of five of the 120 aircraft earmarked for its ambitious $2 billion retrofit programme, a top airline official has revealed. Emirates has earmarked its Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s for a facelift until April 2025.

With just over a minute to go before liftoff, a California aerospace startup opted to stand down from launching the world’s first 3D-printed rocket on its inaugural test flight. Relativity Space was set to launch its Terran 1 booster Wednesday from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but technical difficulties at the launchpad forced the company to call off the attempt.

The report provides a detailed study of the dynamic driving and restraining factors, major challenges, and lucrative opportunities. The report offers a SWOT analysis that helps to understand the driving and restraining factors in the industry. The report highlights market segmentation and includes the study of major market players. 

Compared to traditional manufacturing, it can be faster, cheaper, and more flexible, but how sustainable is it? Can it help companies like GE, Siemens, and Volkswagen — companies that have both adopted AM and pledged to lower their carbon footprint — achieve their sustainability goals?

We in the 3D printing industry have known for some time that the technologies can be used to strengthen supply chains and more. This became even more obvious during the pandemic when 3D printing was a critical part of resolving blockages. 3D printing  has actually helped to expand trade in the past two years.

It's hard to overestimate the impact 3D printing – also called additive manufacturing – has had on the space industry. No other technology has enabled so many companies to enter this industry and deliver vehicles, engines, and rockets in so short a time at such low costs.

SmarTech Analysis has released the latest edition of its report on bound metal 3D printing. Dubbed “Bound Metal & Metal Binder Jetting AM 2022,” the report projects that metal binder jetting and bound metal extrusion technologies will produce $54 billion in parts through 2030. 

A new milestone in concrete 3D printing, Sennheiser starts mass-producing 3D printed headphone housings, and Ford uses 3D scanning and 3D printing to restore Detroit’s historic train station; these stories and more this week in additive manufacturing news. 

 3-D printing is no longer a new or innovative technology for the largest  manufacturers in aerospace who have been creating solid objects from  digital files for more than a decade.

 Eric Gatlin wants to make additive manufacturing mundane. That may sound  strange for someone who spearheads GE Aviation’s adoption of one of the  most potentially transformative technologies in the production of  aircraft parts.