Arcam Metal 3D Printers Making Titanium Implants on Sicily’s Etna Volcano
Last year, around this time, I posted a blog entry comparing a FabLab in Sicily to a modern version of the mythological forge that the Roman God of Hell had deep inside the Mt. Etna Volcano, where he manufactured metal components and weapons for Jupiter and the other Gods. I am now back in Sicily and that myth is presenting itself even more clearly, as I ventured up to the volcano, to a small town called Aci San Antonio, lost among wild vegetation and spent craters. Here, a company called Mt Ortho is taking the myth of Volcano into the future, with two Arcam Q10 electron beam melting (EBM) 3D printers manufacturing state-of-the-art, titanium prosthetic implants.
