Last month, GE Additive signed a 3D printing research Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) -and GE has signed another MoU in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with the Dubai Future Foundation (located in Dubai's 3D printed office building) and Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Company. In an effort to speed up customer innovation, digital manufacturing technologies, groundbreaking additive design, and access to global problem solving in the UAE, the three will work together to establish the region's first microfactory; it will also be GE's first additive microfactory with a partner that's outside the US. The MoU, when combined with on-demand crowd-sourcing with a goal of solving challenges in the region, plays an important part in starting to fully realize the UAE Vision 2021. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/169975/uae-microfactories-mou/