Ford Motor Company
NYSE: FOne of the oldest industrial users of additive manufacturing: its first stereolithography machine arrived in the 1980s, and it now prints prototypes, tooling, sand moulds and a growing number of production parts. Its Red Bull Powertrains work for Formula One is the current showcase.
- Status
- Listed
- Listing
- NYSE: F
- Headquarters
- Dearborn, Michigan, United States
- Founded
- 1903
- Ownership
- Listed on NYSE (F)
- Technologies
- SLA, FDM, SLS, binder jet, sand casting cores, Carbon DLS
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Timeline
- 19861986
Buys its first stereolithography system, the start of in-house 3D printing
Ford gives 1986; another source dates one of its earliest printers to 1988.
- 2018
- 2021Aug 2021
Plans to mass-produce a binder-jetted aluminium 6061 part for a popular model with ExOne, in two to three years
Ford chose binder jetting over laser powder bed fusion, which it found hard to support for aluminium. The part and the model were not named.
- 2025Feb 2025
Its additive team prints about 1,000 parts for the Red Bull Powertrains Formula One partnership
Parts are X-rayed and CT scanned as well as tested for strength, hardness and geometry.
- 2026May 2026
Adapts Sharrow Engineering boat propellers to a 3D printed sand-casting process over nine months, cutting production from a boating season to a few weeks
The lead-time figures are those of Sharrow, the customer.
- Sep 2026
Granted a US patent for a passenger vehicle with a robotic arm for additive manufacturing, with uses that include filling potholes and depositing concrete
Filed in May 2022. A patent, not a product plan.
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