France Launches Funding Initiative for 3D Printing
Nick Hall | June 3, 2016
The future investment programme will dish out €10.5 million in grants and loans to a variety of companies that can help drive the French additive manufacturing industry forward. BPifrance, the government-supported enterprise agency, is behind the scheme that will be managed by the General Commission for Investment (CGI).
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| '“Take Concept Laser’s Xline 1000, today’s largest SLM machine,” says Mr Sander. “It needs 1 ton of titanium powder. Now, they are launching the Xline 2000, which is considerably larger. You can print a full size engine block and this is not something you can manage by hand. As ALM grows, you will have to move tons of material, tons of parts on the building plates. If you want to have industrial use with factories that have 30 or 100 machines, the process will have to be automated. I know a lot of companies that are thinking about this approach, so it is only a question of time. The use cases are coming up and it is starting to really make sense, so I believe that we are going to see a number of automated ALM factories within two years from now.' Source: http://3dprintingindustry.com/news/airbus-is-ready-for-3d-printing-industrialization-in-2016-peter-sander-reveals-63986/ |
<more at http://3dprintingindustry.com/news/france-launches-funding-initiative-3d-printing-81141/; related articles and links: http://3dprintingindustry.com/news/airbus-is-ready-for-3d-printing-industrialization-in-2016-peter-sander-reveals-63986/ (Airbus Is Ready for Industrialization of 3D Printing in 2016, Peter Sander Reveals. January 4, 2016) and http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160603-france-invests-105-million-for-fair-industrial-3d-printing-initiative.html (France invests €10.5 million for FAIR industrial 3D Printing initiative. June 3, 2016)>
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