Fusion reactor at Devens. 3-D Printing at Devens

CNBC extensive profile on Commonwealth Fusion, timeframes to first fusion reactor coming on-line in 2025, and subsequent scale-up. Business plan is to be partly like Boeing, build and sell reactors to companies that generate and distribute electricity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/commonwealth-fusion-systems-tour-and-ceo-interview.html

Recent Globe profile of Vulcan

VulcanForms and its competitors are already providing a glimpse of what’s possible; they can make some metal parts with half the energy and a tenth of the materials of a typical factory.

He’s imagining a time, 20 or 30 years from now, when companies like VulcanForms plug into fusion power or some other entirely green source, tap into an artificial intelligence many times more powerful than what’s available today, and turn out world-beating innovations that can’t even be conceived of now.

Here in Greater Boston, which has emerged as perhaps the most important 3-D printing cluster in the world, several companies have focused on building the machines themselves.

They include Desktop Metal (which is merging with the American-Israeli firm Stratasys), MarkForged, and Formlabs, a $2 billion company on the edge of a Somerville strip mall that makes machines for dental labs and the gaming and entertainment industries.

Elisabeth Reynolds, a former special assistant to the president for manufacturing and economic development, says additive will be one of the “foundational technologies” of 21st-century manufacturing, alongside robotics and artificial intelligence.

By year’s end, if all goes according to plan, the company will be operating the most productive metal additive manufacturing plant in the world.

VulcanForms already supplements its additive manufacturing with precision machining and assembly at a facility in Newburyport. And eventually, the cofounders say, they could imagine an expansion of this additive-plus model in Greater Boston and beyond.

... “The goal is not to build a $2 billion company,” Feldmann says, sitting at a conference table just off the factory floor on a recent afternoon. “We want to build a $100 billion company.”
 
CNBC extensive profile on Commonwealth Fusion, timeframes to first fusion reactor coming on-line in 2025, and subsequent scale-up. Business plan is to be partly like Boeing, build and sell reactors to companies that generate and distribute electricity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/commonwealth-fusion-systems-tour-and-ceo-interview.html

Recent Globe profile of Vulcan

Things no one should ever say: "our goal for our business is to be like Boeing..."
 

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