Sports
In this vertical category segment, you will find information on he use of additive manufacturing in professional sports.
The use of additive manufacturing in motorsports was one of the very first real end-use parts production applications. In Formula 1 top teams like Mercedes and Ferrari have been using 3D printing for various applications for more than a decade. Mercedes uses metal 3D printing service providers for final part production and Ferrari has recently installed two Renishaw metal PBF 3D printers. However, both teams have also been heavy users of AM for prototyping and Ferrari, in particular, has used 3D printing for composite tooling. More recently McLaren and Sabuer-Alfa Romeo also publicized their use of additive manufacturing. Likewise, several NASCAR (Team Penske with Stratasys and Hendrik Motorsports with Cincinnati Inc among others) and Indycar racing teams have been known to use 3D printing. Former NASCAR champion Keselowski even went as far as founding his own metal 3D printing service provider.
Closer to actual consumers, 3D printing has been used to both develop and produce a number of consumer sporting equipment products and parts. These include snowboarding bindings, goggles, ski boots, golf clubs, and many more products. In terms of directly 3D printed products, professional football helmets are paving the way to better consumer helmets at all levels, while iin hockey the same can be said for mouthguards. entire recreational sporting vehicles such as an underwater scooter and several types of entire bicycles (and eBikes such as this one from Arevo) and bicycle parts. Carbon’s technology, in particular, is now being used to 3D print bike saddles, by fizik and Specialized among others.
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Spanish start-up ATHOS, is looking to change the sports footwear industry with a first-of-its-kind 3D printed climbing shoe, made to fit the feet and needs of each climber using HP…
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We have been arguing on these pages that the incredible dominance of Mercedes in Formula 1 for the past decade was due in part to the team’s ability to heavily…
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A passion for single-seaters that has accompanied him since his childhood, Lucas Di Grassi was only 10 years old when he made his first debut as a race driver, starting…
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After the recent project from VAUDE, Osprey, a leader in top-quality, high-performance packs presented Osprey UNLTD, an industry-changing pack series that harnesses rapidly emerging technology and materials such as Carbon…
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Ski goggles seem like relatively simple pieces of equipment but they are made of as many as 13 different. The multiplicity of parts can lead to a higher failure potential…
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The Mission R is the latest vision from Porsche. With this study of a fully electric GT racing car, the pioneer for sustainable mobility shows what customer motorsport could look…
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Procter & Gamble in partnership with the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee and the International Olympics Committee officially unveiled the podiums for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 medal award…
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Leavine Family Racing selected the MakerBot‘s METHOD X 3D printer to leverage MakerBot’s portfolio of materials and advanced thermoplastics available for both rapid prototyping and end-use parts. METHOD’s ability to print…
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The National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), a United Kingdom research center, created a high-stress automotive part using electron beam melting. This AM process is typically reserved for aerospace manufacturing.…
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Spanish sports car brand CUPRA is seeing the benefits of adopting 3D printing on the racetrack. The company, which has integrated 3D printed components made using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion…
