Lifecycle-assessment literature expands around AM energy, material efficiency, powder recycling, and transport/tooling reduction tradeoffs.

• 01Kokare, Oliveira & Godina — Life cycle assessment of additive manufacturing processes: A review (Journal of Manufacturing Systems 68:536-559)2023-05-30

  Open-access systematic review of 77 LCA studies of AM processes, analysing life-cycle inventory data across AM technologies, environmental, economic and social performance, and the factors affecting AM's sustainability potential; identifies under-studied technologies and post-manufacture life-cycle stages as gaps. Supports the claim that AM LCA literature expanded in 2023 and its energy and material-efficiency scope. Link-health: the DOI resolves to ScienceDirect, which returns 403 to automated clients; bibliographic data verified via Crossref and OpenAlex.

• 02MDPI Sustainability 15(20):15081 — Sustainable Powder-Based Additive Manufacturing Technology2023-10-20

  Peer-reviewed open-access review of sustainability in powder-based AM that applies LCA to energy consumption, waste management, and air pollution alongside life-cycle costing and social LCA. Supports the energy and powder-waste portions of this event. Link-health: mdpi.com returns 403 to automated clients; metadata verified via Crossref.

• 03MDPI Sustainability 15(16):12299 — A Review of Conventional versus Additive Manufacturing for Metals: Life-Cycle Environmental and Economic Analysis2023-08-11

  Systematic review plus cradle-to-gate LCA/LCC comparing CNC machining with direct metal laser sintering; electricity consumption is the dominant AM impact and geometry complexity and part size decide the environmental/cost tradeoff. Supports the energy and material-efficiency tradeoff portion. Link-health: mdpi.com returns 403 to automated clients; metadata verified via OpenAlex.

• 04MDPI Sustainability 15(17):12843 — Life Cycle Assessment of Composites Additive Manufacturing Using Recycled Materials2023-08-24

  LCA of fused-filament AM using virgin versus recycled carbon fibres with a detailed life-cycle inventory; electricity is the main impact contributor for both fibre production and recycling. Supports the material-recycling portion for polymer composites only, not metal-powder reuse. Link-health: mdpi.com returns 403 to automated clients; metadata verified via Crossref.

• 05ACS Environmental Science & Technology
• 06Metal AM

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AM Roadmap. (2023). Lifecycle-assessment literature expands around AM energy, material efficiency, powder recycling, and transport/tooling reduction tradeoffs.. AM Roadmap (v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed). Retrieved 2026-08-24, from https://amroadmap.com/timeline/past-2023-sustainability-research-11

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@misc{amroadmap_lifecycle_assessment_literature_expands__2023,
  title  = {Lifecycle-assessment literature expands around AM energy, material efficiency, powder recycling, and transport/tooling reduction tradeoffs.},
  author = {{AM Roadmap}},
  year   = {2023},
  url    = {https://amroadmap.com/timeline/past-2023-sustainability-research-11},
  note   = {AM Roadmap dataset v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed, accessed 2026-08-24}
}

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