The Amazing Aurora Labs 3D Metal Printer, page-35

The rapidly growing additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) industry was valued at $3.07 billion in 2013 and is predicted to grow to $21 billion by 2020.
This growth has arisen due to the adoption of 3D printing activities in a variety of key sectors, including aerospace, medical devices, automotive and creative industries.

Despite the growing popularity of additive manufacturing, the industry has witnessed only gradual improvements over the past two decades.


We need new ‘mad hatter’ ideas to completely transform 3D printing processes.

– Professor Phill Dickens

University of Nottingham


For example, although the speed of 3D printing has increased slightly since the 1990s, a further increase in production rates – of at least two orders of magnitude – is still required for high-value industrial manufacturing applications.

Such an improvement, however, is unlikely to be achieved with current state-of-the-art 3D printing processes, and completely new ideas will need to be developed.


And that's where A3d'S 'thinking outside the box Technology' could lead to revolutionary forward steps within the manufacturing industry.
The MFP prototype is Printing and parameters being refined. Validation of the Technologies speed & other characteristic advancements over existing tech will imo bring reward here.
A3d'S Large Format machines will be 'Industrial' machines, which is a target that's currently a huge step up level or different league of other companies targeted machines.