Finally someone sees the key issue, every 3d announcement is not positive for Arcam. The new GE printer suggests it will not be using EBM despite all those that assumed it would and posted, only one GE part so far has been awarded to EBM and the bulk of expansion and tech money seems to be going to laser and Concept. That can change but of all the articles and posts I've been reading by about the only poster till recently on this board has been posting non arcam and non EBM stuff without of course clarifying that point.
Neverless, the point is how many of those 10000 outside and 1000 inside GE printers will be EBM, how many new parts will be EBM based and not laser and how many of those experimenting with EBM will Ochoose to volume make parts using EBM technology. That is the key. I invite those to respond, do anyone know of any other, and I mean any, aviation part announced to be volume produced via EBM. So far I've only heard of the blade and that will be in the future with GE not even taking delivery of the machines bought yet.
On photogenesis, I've kicked myself as well but did not know if their technology was better than APC and when they would get going but its obvious that demand for powde will be huge. GE guaranteed their supply by buying APC Now who will win the remainder, APC, photogenisis or both. We shall see. But for a year the only bright spot has been APC and I hope that continues. We need more announcements of decisions for volume EBM parts by GE and others and not just generic good news and assumptions that all good news pertains to Arcam.
