Dr. Raymond Clinton (Corky) Clinton Jr. (NASA) and Dr. Thomas Rohr (ESA) performed the official opening of Additive Industries’ new Process and Application Development Centre in Filton, near Bristol. Corky Clinton works for NASA as the Associate Director of the Science and Technology Office. Thomas Rohr is Head of Materials and Processes Section at the European Space Agency (ESA). At the opening, the two representatives from the space industry were joined by Dr. Mark Beard, Additive Industries’ Global Director of Process & Application Development and General Manager of the Centre. Part of the opening ceremony was the presentation of Additive Industries’ flagship product MetalFABG2, which offers twice the productivity, compared to previous models. It features optimized gas flow, optimized heat management, updated process parameters and automated beam quality measurements.
