3D Printing Marketing Trainee: How is 3D Printing influencing society?
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Sara describes the ways in which 3D printing incorporates green technology; it is between manufacturing technology and an environmentally sustainable type of business, which produces an object by using only the exact type and quantity of materials required. It involves an additive process, meaning successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes to make a three-dimensional solid object. - Find more in KQED's Work Voices series here- www.kqed.org/workvoices
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