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Xerox Elem Additive, US Navy Deploy First Metal 3D Printer at Sea

Xerox ElemX 3D metal printer installed on USS Essex (LHD 2) and at-sea trials have begun in Pacific Rim.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Xerox Elem Additive Solutions announced that an ElemX liquid metal printer was recently installed on board USS Essex (LHD 2), making it the first metal additive manufacturing machine deployed on a US Naval vessel. The ElemX was placed on the ship earlier this month in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with at-sea trials beginning immediately. The installation is the latest step in the US Navy’s strategy of using additive manufacturing (AM) to increase operational readiness for the fleet. It also build...

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