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.

How Mosaic Manufacturing’s 3D Printing has evolved to enable multi-material (mass) production

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Carbon and adidas did it again: a data driven, 3D printed midsole embedded in the new adidas running shoes

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3D Printed Golf Tee Markers have been developed for the Zurich Classic, a professional golf tournament

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More comfort, more functionality, fewer components: meet the 3D Printed skiing goggles made by OECHSLER

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Cobra Golf: Its first 3D printed Golf Club is (finally) here – Produced with HP AM technology

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Leavine Family Racing explores other applications in car racing with MakerBot METHOD X™ 3D printer

Since it had discovered 3D printing can provide a cost-effective approach to making inch-wide pucks used to fill holes in the splitters on the cars, NASCAR Cup Series Team Leavine Family Racing has become...

Tadej Pogačar won the « Tour de France 2020» with partially 3D printed bike from Colnago

Captain of the UAE Team Emirates Tadej Pogačar won the Tour De France 2020, “La Grande Boucle” (The Great Circuit) riding a bicycle from Colnago, whose frame has been 3D printed. Colnago is a brand of...

Formnext Connect: 3D-printed Moorhuhn Bike wins first prize of the Purmundus Challenge

35 finalists stood a chance of winning the purmundus challenge trophy. As a reminder for this 2020 edition of the Purmundus Challenge, participants competed under the motto “Geometry and Material in Harmony”. On October 9th...

Purmundus Challenge: Contestants explore the potential of AM under the motto “Geometry and Material in Harmony” (Part 2)

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How 3D Printed Titanium Motor Nodes help make more sustainable e-bikes

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