High-tech SA firm aiming to revolutionise production of electronic components

A small South African high-technology company is seeking to revolutionise the production of a key category of components for aerospace electronics and radars by using additive manufacturing (more popularly known as 3D Printing). The company is NewSpace Systems (a finalist in this year’s Western Cape Chamber of Commerce Exporter of the Year award), which is part of the local, private sector, SCS Aerospace Group. And the components concerned are waveguides. Currently these are produced using Computerised Numerical Control (better known as CNC) machines.