Automotive 3D Printing
3D Printing for GM SUV Opens Doors for GKN Additive’s Flexible Manufacturing
While at RAPID+TCT, we learned that the world of automotive 3D printing had taken a major step forward. To address an immediate supply chain issue, General Motors Company (GM) turned…
Conflux Reaches for Mass Customization with New 3D Printed Heat Exchanger Line
Conflux has specialized in making heat exchangers since its inception. Previously, the company collaborated with GKN to make its technology available in Europe. We interviewed CEO Michael Fuller, including on…
3D Printed Sand Tooling for ABS Plastic Vacuum Forming Production
In the world of consumer products, speed is the name of the game. The faster products get to market, the faster they can be purchased by consumers. To maintain a…
1st Inkbit Vista 3D Printer Operational at Saint-Gobain Research North America
Marking the finish line of a marathon lasting the better part of a decade, Medford, MA-based 3D printer startup Inkbit has announced that the first commercial Vista printer to be…
3D Printed Hypercar to Be Distributed by Czinger Vehicles Global Dealer Network
Having raised $160 million just this April, 2022 is the year that Divergent 3D and Czinger Vehicles truly ventured into the public eye. Beginning with the lead up to AMUG…
NASCAR and Toyota Select Stratasys to 3D Print Race Car Parts
Post-World War II, stock car racing grew to become one of this country’s most beloved pastimes, and while it wasn’t well-organized at the beginning, a sanctioning body for stock car…
Innovation for Electric Vehicles Polymer 3D Printing – An HP and 3DPrint.com Webinar
As additive manufacturing (AM) has matured, the technology is now primed for widespread adoption in the automotive sector. Already multiple vehicle manufacturers, including Volkswagen and Ford, have announced plans to…
GKN and Conflux Join Forces on 3D Printed Heat Exchangers
Conflux Technology and GKN Additive have announced that they will collaborate on the development and production of 3D printed heat exchangers. One of the most indispensable industrial components for a…
BMW Creates Fully Automated Production Lines for 3D Printed Car Parts
Three years ago, 12 companies and research institutions working at the intersection of the German automotive and additive manufacturing (AM) industries formed a consortium for the purpose of completing a…
The Benefit of 3D Printing for Engines in Motorsports
Probably most associated with Formula 1, auto racing is the fastest and one of the most technologically advanced sports in the world. Production technology for motorsports, in particular, is at…
Auto Glass Giant Saint-Gobain Cuts Costs & Lead Time with BCN3D 3D Printers
Automotive glass is one of those extremely mundane-sounding sectors that’s nonetheless indispensable to the stability of global supply chains. Those sectors, of course, seem to be the ones which have…
Sauber Technologies Teams with EOS for Polymer 3D Printing
EOS has signed a three-year deal with Sauber Technologies, the Swiss engineering company that works with the Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen, formerly a Sauber sister company. While Sauber does…
GM Turns to HP’s MJF 3D Printing for Fast Part Production
At this week’s RAPID+TCT event, HP will be running its high volume production Jet Fusion 5200 platform, powered by Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology which has now printed more than…
First Ever 3D Printed Ceramic Piston Made for Chaos Ultracar
XJet has announced that it produced the world’s first 3D printed car engine piston made entirely with ceramics. Developed by Spyros Panopoulos Automotive (SPA) for its Chaos Ultracar, the part…
$160M Drives 3D Printed Hypercar Startup Divergent in Series C Round
Coming off the heels of an exciting presence at the 2022 AMUG Conference, Divergent Technologies has announced a successful Series C round totaling $160 million in funding. The investment will…
BMW Buys Wire Arc Metal 3D Printer from MX3D
Dutch wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) developer MX3D is perhaps most known for its 3D printing of a metal bridge spanning a canal in the Netherlands. However, the company is in…
3D Printing Camaraderie Returns in Full Force at AMUG 2022
Within the 3D printing industry, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference is like no other. As the group’s motto goes, it is “for users, by users.” That results in…
3D Printed Car Accessories Give New Peugeot 308 High-Tech Flair
Peugeot’s car accessories will advance to new heights now that the French car brand is leveraging the technology, as well as a brand new flexible polymer, to offer customers a…
Ford Uses Roving Robot to Run Carbon 3D Printers
Collaborative robots are very much in demand now but they often lack the systems to integrate well with existing automation and processes. Now however, Ford reports that it has a…
A Man, a Plan, a 3D Printed Hypercar: A Talk with Divergent 3D’s Kevin Czinger
As founder of Divergent Technologies, Kevin Czinger belongs to that new generation of CEOs. That is, his vision for his company and the technology that it produces isn’t limited by…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 12, 2022: 3D Printed Car Parts, Heat Exchangers, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a Volkswagen subsidiary has invested in an SLM Solutions 3D printer, and Stratasys partnered with Radford to 3D print sports car parts. Then we…
Volkswagen’s Ducati to Use Roboze 3D Printing on Superbikes
Roboze, an Italian manufacturer of high-temperature 3D printers, has partnered with the Ducati Corse team for the 2022 season. This will mean that, as a technical partner, Roboze will supply…
AMS 2022: From Aerospace to Automotive, How 3D Printing is Transforming Legacy Industries
The last day of Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) was packed full of panels and lively discussions about the mobility sector, more specifically aerospace and automotive. From new trends to engineering…
Automotive Plastic 3D Printing to Reach $2.7B in North America and Europe by 2030
According to a new report from SmarTech Analysis, the market for polymer 3D printing in North America and Europe’s automotive sector is expected to reach $2.7 billion by 2030. As…
