Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Fledgling 3-D printing industry finds home | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

NEW YORK — It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.

This space in an anonymous building in New York's Long Island City neighborhood, just across the river from Manhattan, isn't cooking up breads and pastries, however. It's a factory, filled with 3-D printers "baking" items by blasting a fine plastic dust with lasers.

When a production run is done, a cubic foot of white dust comes out of each machine. Packed inside the loose powder like dinosaur bones in sand are hundreds of unique products, from custom iPhone cases to action figures to egg cups.





Fledgling 3-D printing industry finds home | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

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