engines
BMW Plant 3D Prints Massive Engine Cylinder Sand Cores Automatically
Thanks to a partnership with Loramendi and voxeljet, BMW’s Landshut plant now has the ability to automatically 3D print large-scale sand cores for casting cylinder heads for high-efficiency engines. The…
GKN’s New Turbine Exhaust Module Made More Efficient with 3D Printing
Manufacturing firm GKN Aerospace has produced and delivered a turbine exhaust module to German engine company MTU as a part of the E.U.’s Clean Sky-2 EMVAL project. Designed as a…
Aerospace Giant Safran Opens Aerospace €80 Million 3D Printing Campus
French engines and engineering firm Safran (SAF.PA) has inaugurated an Additive Manufacturing Campus, a 3D printing center of excellence, in Le Haillan. In attendance at the grand opening ceremony were…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Boom to Bust, GKN Makes 8 Foot Part and New 3Deus 3D Printing Process
Today we´re talking about Boom Supersonic. The US based supersonic airliner firm has had Rolls Royce drop out of its engine partnership. This means that none of the large engine…
The State of 3D Printing in Heavy Equipment
In the aerospace industry, there are plenty of research dollars to be had and the slightest improvement in weight reduction to an aircraft part can reduce fuel costs significantly. Though…
