The European aircraft construction concern Airbus is installing a 3D printer for printing from titanium wire of various elements of the design of passenger aircraft.

          For printing structural details, Airbus will use the EBAM 110 system of American company Sciaky. For layer-by-layer printing of parts, the technology of electron beam melting is used. During printing in a special vacuum chamber, the printer's manipulator feeds a thin titanium wire that melts the metal with an electron beam. According to Sciaky, the new technology allows producing solid parts whose characteristics correspond or even exceed the characteristics of the elements of the construction manufactured by traditional methods, including forging.

Three-dimensional printing in the aircraft industry has not yet become widespread, but some of the aircraft components, including Installed in jet engines, are already produced by this technology. The main advantage is the ability to produce complex solid elements, which are extremely difficult or impossible to do with the usual methods.