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Koen Huybrechts
Manager, Aerospace Application Development, Application Innovation Group
Specialties:Aerospace & Defense, Direct Metal Printing
Koen Huybrechts is the manager of the Aerospace Application Development team for the Application Innovation Group located in Leuven, Belgium. With 8 years of metal printing experience, Koen gains momentum by furthering the level of knowledge for customers in this industry to push boundaries together. Finding a balance between technical and economical requirements, he focuses on the added value of functional system design before looking at geometries.
Where our team stands now, it’s great to look back to the beginning to see how far we’ve come. Before 2015, we built relationships with aerospace OEM’s on our team’s first small project. Over the years, we forged partnerships together by us educating our customers, about the opportunities and limitations of our technology, and our customers educating us about some of the most complex applications. It’s inspiring to be able to offer such a wide set of solutions from printing and materials to software and consultation, wherever a company stands with their AM roadmap.—Koen Huybrechts, Aerospace Application Development, Application Innovation Group, 3D Systems