Medical technologies are gaining in importance because of scientific and technical progress in medicine andthe increasing average lifetime of people. This has opened up a huge market for medical devices, where complex-shapedmetallic parts made from biocompatible materials are in great demand. Today many of these components are alreadybeing manufactured by powder metallurgy technologies. This includes mass production of standard products and alsocustomized components. In this paper some aspects related to metal injection molding of Ti and its alloys as well asmodifications of microstructure and surface finish were discussed. The process chain of additive manufacturing (AM)was described and the current state of the art of AM processes like Selective Laser Melting and electron beam meltingfor medical applications was presented.

• Frank Petzoldt(Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM) Corresponding Author
• Vera Friederici(Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM)
• Philipp Imgrund(Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM)
• Claus Aumund-Kopp(Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM)