SNL Laboratory, an American research organization, and now a subsidiary of Honeywell, has printed on a 3D printer a form for the manufacture of wind turbine blades 13 meters long. Since the distant 1949, work in the laboratory was organized with the aim of producing and testing non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. Today, the main specializations of this laboratory are the development of methods of protection against weapons of mass destruction and renewable energy issues.

Together with colleagues from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), it was decided to produce a working prototype of a wind turbine blade, but since it would take up to 16 months to complete the design and manufacture cycle of a mold using traditional methods, was decided to use additive technologies for this. As a result, the process of 3D printing of one of the forms took about 2 weeks, which critically accelerated the process of obtaining a working prototype and the start of testing.

Together with colleagues from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), it was decided to produce in 2016 one of Honeywell's subsidiaries, namely Honeywell Safety Products, began to use 3D printing technology PolyJet in their new developments, in order to accelerate the prototyping stage and to get the final product . The 3D printer of the Connex series was seen in their lab in Brno, Czech Republic.