In 2016 a few companies came together because they believed that only together, not individually, each one fighting the same problems and facing the same hurdles, would the industry be able to push industrial additive manufacturing into serial production.

On September 22 & 23 we came together to celebrate the 5^th Anniversary of the MGA network that was born out of the idea that together we are stronger – and the fact that we are now more than 130 member companies strong, proves that point.

Together with our friends and members of the network, we have spent two beautiful days celebrating the past achievements and listened to inspiring key notes about what else this great technology is capable of.

Now it’s time for us to look back at those eventful days:

As always, we opened our Annual Meeting with the members-only General Assembly, during which our executive board was discharged, and the cash auditor was reelected.

In addition, we are pleased to announce something very special to us: our members voted to appoint a third honorary member: congratulations and a huge thank you to Arvid Eirich, for building up the network and continuously supporting AM. Even if he now has taken over new responsibilities at the 3D printing project with the Deutsche Bahn – he will never be far away from the network and will continue to play a role in boosting AM.

The rest of the afternoon was filled with keynotes from our Advisory Counsellor Klaus Roeser, Benoit Dodin from SNCF, Dr Georg Fuchs from Fuchs & Cie, Dr Tina Schlingmann from EOS, Dr Özlem Weiss from Expertants and others.