Earlier this week at IMTS 2016, manufacturer Ingersoll Machine Tools announced that they would be collaborating with the Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to create an extremely large-scale 3D printing system. The Wide and High Additive Manufacturing (WHAM) system is a mammoth-sized additive manufacturing system that will have a build envelope of 23 x 10 x 46 feet, as well as targeted laydown rates of 1,000 lb/hr. The WHAM system will lead to increased size and speed capabilities over currently existing large-format 3D printing technology, and is projected to be commercially available sometime in the next 18 to 24 months. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/149303/ornl-ingersoll-wham/