The page reports on the SAE AMS AM Metals Sub-Committee’s spring meeting at GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan, Sweden, covering consensus work on standards for flight-critical metal additive manufacturing.
The article says North American foundries have faced consolidation, customer offshoring and raw material volatility over the past two decades, while tonnage remained consistent and revenue generally trended upward.
The article argues that additive manufacturing must compete with legacy methods such as casting and forging on cost, rather than focusing solely on precision, control and aesthetics.
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