Thursday, June 20, 2019
HP opens 14,000m2 3D printing centre in Barcelona
A few days ago, HP opened a new centre of excellence dedicated to 3D printing and digital manufacturing in the province of Barcelona, in Sant Cugat del Vallès. It is a 14,000 m2 space dedicated to innovation and development of additive manufacturing in industrial environments, with the aim of strengthening collaboration and research work between customers and partners - 4,500 m2 have been designed for research laboratories. According to HP, the Barcelona centre will bring together digital manufacturing experts in the areas of systems engineering, data, analysis, software, materials science, design and applications of additive manufacturing.
Since entering the additive manufacturing market, HP has been promoting the introduction of 3D technologies in industry across all sectors. A recent example of this is the collaboration with SmileDirectClub, where HP's 3D printing solutions enable the company to 3D print 20 million mouth moulds per year, boosting the production of custom aligners. The Barcelona centre, which is slightly larger than two football pitches, should therefore meet this objective of integrating 3D technologies and encouraging collaboration between different 3D printing players...
Source : 3Dnatives
