Spanish shipbuilder Navantia launches Shipyard 4.0, with 3D printing and other innovations

Shipbuilding is a manufacturing sector that isn’t quite as well known as others like aerospace or automotive for its adoption of 3D printing techniques, but the completion of the world’s first 3D printed ship propeller in the Netherlands last year shows the direction that the industry could soon be heading.

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