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Additive Manufacturing in the Sport industry

“Making sport better” is the direct or indirect credo for most professionals working or aspiring to work in the sport industry, and this, regardless of the sport activity. For professionals who are on this mission, a means to an end has often been to rely on the capabilities of technologies; and trust us, there are a lot.

To provide a few figures, there are about 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games. In this list, over 800 sports are currently said to be played around the world on a regular basis and about 200 sports are recognized sports with national and international federations.

However, Additive Manufacturing technologies have already played a key role for only 12 disciplines out of these 200. What are these AM applications? What are the AM technologies that enable them? What challenges and possible solutions may help sport companies – and eventually providers of AM technologies – move forward?

Additive Manufacturing companies & professionals, together with sport companies but also researchers continue to explore what is possible to achieve in various fields of the sport industry.

Designers could leverage this MIT model to optimize 3D-printed shoe performance

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With the goal of discovering which shoe best suits a person’s particular running style, MIT engineers have developed a new model that predicts how certain shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. “Shoe designers are...

Fansea uses Mimaki 3D printing technology to make real world 3D printed collectibles

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The 3D asset creator company  Fansea used  Mimaki 3DUJ-553 3D printing technology to make 3D printed collectibles from the virtual world.  The company was created in 2020 by Alexander Schlicher who combined his interest in...

TRUMPF 3D prints titanium brake levers for Trickstuff’s bicycles

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As part of a collaboration with Trickstuff, a provider of bike-related products, machine manufacturer TRUMPF produced titanium brake levers, showing this way the potential of its metal 3D printing machines for the bike industry. Brake...

Decathlon creates new 3D printed shoe concept with Lonati Group and HP

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Decathlon’s latest footwear concept features a midsole and outsole produced using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology and Lonati’s knitted uppers. The 3D printed shoes were showcased at the latest textile trade fair ITMA in Milan. Shoe...

POC unveils Elicit Ti 3D printed titanium cycling glasses

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We have seen glasses in many shapes but this is probably the first time that we witness the combination of titanium and AM for the production of cycling glasses. These accessories are usually made...

HRL Laboratories’ 3D Printable Aluminum also joins the selective use of Formula One’s AM materials

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In less than a week, we saw two announcements related to new materials approved for use in the world’s fastest race cars. On the heels of Constellium’s Aheadd® CP1 aluminium additive manufacturing powder, HRL...

Porsche and Puma unveil new collection of 3D printed sneakers: 3D MTRX Sneakers

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Puma and Porsche Design joined forces to develop a limited collection of 3D printed sneakers: the 3D Mtrx sneaker. This is not the first collaboration of both brands whose fans had witnessed four years ago...

T3D Boxing Gloves, the latest product line of Hayabusa, make Boxing the 17th discipline out of 200 to leverage Additive Manufacturing

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We have seen gloves designed for impact protection applications, gloves designed to improve athletes’ defensive skills in Baseball and today, 3D-printed boxing gloves? Additive Manufacturing is all the rage in sports equipment manufacturing and...

IperionX to explore the production of 3D printed Titanium Bike parts with Canyon

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Materials producer IperionX will be working with bike brand Canyon Bicycles GmbH to explore the production of bicycle components using IperionX’s 100% recycled and low-carbon titanium. If you’re a regular reader of 3D ADEPT Media,...

Jabil and KAV Sports produce a custom 3D printed helmet that exceeds safety criteria

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 During this week at AMUG, manufacturing solutions provider Jabil Inc. unveiled a personalized bicycle helmet, produced in collaboration and for KAV Sports, a sports brand that develops custom 3D printed helmet. Unlike traditional bike helmets...
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