'India's technical capability can support 3D printing'
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Kharagpur (West Bengal): Dutch orthopaedic bio-engineering expert Nico Verdonschot, a foreign faculty member for India's Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) programme, said the country's technical capabilities could augment the 3D printing sector for profitably manufacturing implants.
"The technical capabilities of India will support 3D printing. Companies with very good capabilities of 3D printing also need to have a good understanding of bio-mechanics," Verdonschot told the media here.
Verdonschot will teach the 'Orthopaedic Bio-mechanics: Implants and Biomaterials' course at IIT Kharagpur alongwith Indian experts like Sanjay Gupta.
"Implants and 3D printing are very interesting combination. It used to be not profitable to print an individual implant but now the way 3D printing is going so fast the technology is becoming cheap and India can use that," said Verdonschot, a professor at Radboud University and University of Twente, the Netherlands.
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