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3D printing
A new brick in the Great Wall
Additive manufacturing is growing apace in China
BEIJING
ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy making things. Yet the factory, owned by Beijing Longyuan Automated Fabrication System (known as AFS), appears almost deserted. This is because it is using additive-manufacturing machines, popularly known as three-dimensional (3D) printers, which run unattended day and night, seven days a week.
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The maker movement flows through China. I don't if you can get this article, but it's an interesting heads up.
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