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The rate of progress in additive manufacturing with plastics is little short of staggering. In a few years, it has gone from being an exotic plaything for crazy inventors and well-funded research laboratories, all the way to a major disruptive technology that could well turn industrial manufacturing upside-down.
Additive manufacturing (AM, or 3D printing) began in earnest when stereolithography (SLA) was invented in Japan in the early 1980s. Things moved up a gear when Fused Deposition Molding (FDM), was invented by Stratasys founder Scott Crump in 1989, and then really took off just ten years ago when the first FDM patents expired. The world was flooded by low- and medium-cost equipment – 3D printers using very similar technologies, also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) – that inspired the imaginations of thousands of hobbyists around the world.