
Orthopedics
From prototype to full production. Faster.
The time is now. To revolutionize medical implants and remove barriers to customizations. For the ready, we have a way to get there faster. To drive productivity and customization and improve safety and patient care. When you’re ready to deliver cost-efficient, patient-specific orthopedic implants using AM, the pioneers of full metal additive production are ready to help.
Additive Benefits for the Medical and Orthopedic Industry
Design freedom for medical implants
Additive Manufacturing provides you the flexibility to customize the implant for patient needs, achieve desired mechanical properties, and ease surgery.
Medical implant complexity
You can add features to increase functionality and effectiveness of the implant without increasing production steps or costs.
Mechanics of the body
You can design porosity and pore size, as well as interconnectivity of trabecular structures to allow for enhanced initial fixation and bone ingrowth.
One medical implant
AM enables integrated trabecular structures that reduce risk of delamination and simplify the supply chain because the implant is made in one step—and one part.
Flexible and efficient production
AM is suitable for both serial production and manufacturing of mixed implant designs and sizes, without the need for change in hardware configuration. This allows for minimal waste and high productivity.

Added value for spinal implants through AM
Already, leaders in orthopedics are going to market with metal additive implants and shaping the future of patient care. Download our whitepaper "From Powder to Spinal Cage Production: Added Value for Spinal Implants through Additive Manufacturing", where we share some insights in additive spinal cage production and its surface topography.



Scaling for growth
Additive manufacturing allows us to make things with and for our customers that we could not previously make before. Using titanium powder, we can manufacture implants with complex geometries and porous structures to encourage bone growth. That complexity and innovation cannot be achieved using traditional techniques, such as milling.
– HENK JANSEN, Managing Director, FMI Instrumed
Case studies

Speed & Scale in the Spinal Sector
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MT Ortho harnesses additive technology to manufacture customized prostheses for cranioplasty and bone cancer patients
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Nexxt Spine continues investment in additive to drive medical device innovation
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Reimagining knee replacements with additive technology and artificial intelligence
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Scaling for growth
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Bone machine: 3D printing is revolutionizing plastic surgery
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Love At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents Feel Baby’s Ultrasound
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Additive at the cutting edge of joint replacement surgery
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100,000 patients later: The 3D-printed hip is a decade old and going strong
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Québec’s CRIQ selects GE Additive Arcam EBM to explore use of additive for patient-specific jaw reconstruction
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