by DAVID ZAX, Technology Review
Shapeways, the 3-D printing company based in New York, today celebrated its next step: something it’s calling the “Factory of the Future.” Shapeways held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a 25,000-square-foot facility that will soon be humming with as many as 50 industrial-scale printers that will be able to make up to five million products per year. Shapeways calls it the biggest consumer-facing 3-D printing facility in the world. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The twist? The scissors Mayor Bloomberg used had been printed in-house. The scissors were 3-D printed two days prior, Shapeways’s Carine Carmy tells Technology Review. “They weren’t made of metal—they were made of nylon plastic—but they’re strong enough to cut through paper.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429686/a-ribbon-cutting-for-3-d-printing-using-3-d/
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