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NIST Awards $7.4 Million in Grants for Additive Manufacturing Research

Benefits include producing goods quickly and on-demand, with greater customization and complexity and less material waste

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the award of two grants totaling $7.4 million to fund research projects aimed at improving measurement and standards for the rapidly developing field of additive manufacturing. Benefits of additive manufacturing include producing goods quickly and on-demand, with greater customization and complexity and less material waste. NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innova...

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