Sweden’s Sandvik AB (SAND) has been around since 1862, growing to encompass 47,000 employees across 130 countries as the world’s biggest producer of metal-cutting tools. The company continues to keep pace with new technology and, to ensure that it can capture the 3D printing market, Sandvik is opening a new 3D printing research and development center in Sandviken, Sweden.
Sandvik is in the process of hiring a team for the center, which will coalesce all of the company’s 3D initiatives under one roof and explore the possibility of producing a wide array of items, including drill rigs for mining and fuel tubes for nuclear power plants.…
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