THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) printing has long been touted as the next big step in manufacturing, with research being done into everything from 3D-printed prefabricated homes to even 3D-printed steak.
With the technology’s many possibilities, Nanosun chairman Darren Sun believes that 3D printing has the potential to create an impact as large as that of the industrial revolution, which brought about the large-scale production of finer textiles than women could knit by hand.
Instead of the dozens of strands of fibre that are currently woven with traditional materials, billions of fibres can now be woven into a square centimetre of space, he said.
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