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Conversations With: Kevin Czinger – Scaling 3D Printing for Automotive Applications

by | Aug 8, 2022

Summary

How close are we to scaling 3D printing in the auto industry? Probably a lot closer than you think, according to Kevin Czinger. On this Episode of "Conversations With, " Automation Alley Executive Director and CEO Tom Kelly asks the founder, lead inventor and CEO of Divergent 3D and Czinger Vehicles about the constraints that remain in reaching the mass market for additive manufacturing.

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