18 MetroWest495 Biz | May 2014
By liVia gerShon
F
our years ago, Marlborough
contract machining company
J&J Machine Co. shelled out
$30,000 for a 3D printer, and the
company hasn't looked back since.
MetroWest manufacturers speed it up with 3D printing
From Cool to
CruCiAl
Matthew Caribo, a manufacturing engineer with J&J Machine Co. in Marlborough,
shows a demonstration file, a detailed mold of Gollum, a character from J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Hobbit, to show the 3D printing machine's capabilities.
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