During the design phase of the elbow joint replacement, Osteogen and Proto Labs’ collaborated to determine the optimum depth of titanium, which is applied by 3D printing. “Proto Labs understood our desire to keep the titanium layer as thin as possible,” explained Osteogen’s PaulSmirthwaite, “but were able to advise us on the minimum thickness for reliability – which saved us valuable development time in the long term.”
Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation
"..have been years in the making" and are embedded in the actors - thus making it difficult for UK industry to move on and develop and apply...