With industry experience at places such as Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Arconic, the two were well positioned to develop the process that would become the crux of a new business, Metal Powder Works. It’s this last point - the economics of powdered metals - that first prompted John Barnes and Chris Aldridge to begin exploring how these materials might be made differently. Is a 3D printer just a machine tool working in reverse? Or is it something else entirely? Stephanie.
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