Custom made products are gaining popularity in the medical field. Although standard products can be used in most of the cases, there are patients with abnormal anatomies that require personalization. Tumoral cases, congenital or adquired skeletal deformities, bone infections or difficult revision surgeries can benefit from this approach.

During the SUPREME project, different additive manufacturing techniques were tested and all of them could be potentially used in the orthopaedic and trauma field, although most of them should be adjusted to gain in precisión.

Also, metal injection molding (MIM) has proved to be a less expensive alternative to produce certain products in a large scale.

The manufacturing techniques tested have shown significant potential in reducing the environmental impact for the manufacture of medical parts, relative to conventional manufacturing techniques.