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.

Headmade Materials and Element 22: at the heart of 3D printed titanium parts for Sturdy Cycles’s Fiadh titanium road bike

We were keen to discover what would be the first application that would result from Headmade Materials and Element 22’ collaboration. The answer is: 3D printed titanium parts for Sturdy Cycles’ bikes. As a reminder,...

3D printed sneaker reveals the potential of Parametric Design and 3D Printing for the footwear industry

Designer Nathan Smith has been creating a lot of hype lately since he unveiled a 3D printed sneaker - The Parametriks Print 001 sneaker - created by combining Parametric Design and 3D printing. While the...

Sturdy Cycles reveals one of kind 3D printed Titanium Crankset

More and more companies are entering the bike model with astonishing 3D printed components as key differentiating factor. Be it for races or for commercial purpose, we covered a lot of companies that ambition...

Conflux Technology and Dallara Autobili collaborate on the development of 3D printed heat exchangers

After an exciting 2021 year marked by a Series A investment round and a partnership with Sumitomo Corporation Global Metals that will support the growth of Conflux’ additive manufactured thermal and fluid applications business...

How does Additive Manufacturing affect Urwahn Bikes’s business model?

In the range of 3D printing applications designed for the consumer goods industry, bikes are definitely in the top five of products that are partially or completely 3D printed. While many 3D printed bikes...

Oerlikon 3D Prints the 1000th bicycle component for Urwahn

The consumer goods industry is such a niche sector that being able to 3D print up to 1000 components is a milestone every parts manufacturer should be proud of. This milestone is the one,...

Speeco aims at filling the gap between mass volume production and exotic components in cycling with AM

Two (ex-) competitive cyclists, Jules de Cock and Noah van Horen have always been intrigued by factors that influence a cycling race. They have founded SPEECO to explore solutions that will improve the cycling...

Athlete Miro Buroni develops spike shoes Pleko using Carbon fiber filled composite and 3D printing

With the goal of developing athletics track shoes (in jargon, spike shoes), middle-distance runner Miro Buroni has worked with sportswear brand Diadora and engineering company CRP technology. As seen in almost all its projects, CRP...

Renishaw 3D prints a track bike for the Great Britain Cycling Team

It’s been a while we haven’t talked about Renishaw but when we think of this company’s metal AM technology, we like to remember that one of the many areas where this technology has a...

Form Cycling to 3D print saddle padding for LuxCreo

Form Cycling, a company that designs and manufactures saddles so that they fit every rider, has partnered with LuxCreo for the production of their 3D printed saddle padding. So far, the only production of saddles...

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