More and more businesses that are working to improve their performance with regards to the environment are finding that additive manufacturing helps them reduce waste, energy consumption and machine emission long with many indirect gains.
Here is a link to a paper by Mohd Javaid et. al. entitled “Role of additive manufacturing applications towards environmental sustainability,” published in Volume 4, Issue 4 of the Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research Journal of October 2021 which examines in detail the benefits to the environment and sustainability that result from the replacement of traditional manufacturing with additive manufacturing technologies.
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