Aircraft
GKN Wages War On Waste With Additive Manufacturing
GKN Aerospace is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy.

GKN Aerospace and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee have signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement focused on additive manufacturing (AM). Using the Department’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), the $178 million deal aims to develop new AM processes, supporting progress towards their use in manufacturing of major aircraft structural components.