Additive Manufacturing Solutions for Improved Medical Implants

In recent years, European industry has been facing the challenge of losing competitiveness in mass production. Due to important factors such as lower labour costs, lower taxes or insite access to raw materials, mass production has migrated to Third World countries. However, European industry is more advanced in technological aspects and is in need of a qualitative advantage in the development of new technologies. One of the efforts of European companies is directed towards the production of short series of customized products with added value. Major efforts have been done in order to customize products and give them an added value by developing new manufacturing technologies.