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GE’s Additive Technology Center in Ohio uses 90 metal 3D printers to make aircraft parts

GE’s Additive Technology Center in Ohio uses 90 metal 3D printers to make aircraft parts


GE’s Additive Technology Center – or ATC – is located along Interstate 75, near Cincinnati, in Ohio. From the outside, the building looks like many of the low, gray boxes in this industrial area. But step inside it houses the world’s largest and most advanced 3D printing facility and development center.

“It’s not hard to walk into this building every morning and go to work,” says Eric Gatlin, a general manager for GE Aviation focusing on additive manufacturing. “A lot of the things we do here, we are doing for the very first time. I think that breeds a certain amount of excitement, a certain amount of energy, and requires a certain culture.”

The ATC holds close to 90 3D printers, including six of the largest metal printers in the world, the XLine 2000, and employs 300 designers, machinists and engineers. The site belongs to GE Aviation, but about half of the employees come from GE Additive, the new GE business unit that makes 3D printers and the materials used for printing.