{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "ford",
 "name": "Ford Motor Company",
 "status": "listed",
 "status_label": "Listed",
 "segment": "Automotive, consumer and medical buyers",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/ford/",
 "listing": {
  "exchange": "NYSE",
  "ticker": "F",
  "tradingview_symbol": "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"
 ],
 "description": "One 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.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-23",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "1986",
   "title": "Buys its first stereolithography system, the start of in-house 3D printing",
   "detail": "Ford gives 1986; another source dates one of its earliest printers to 1988.",
   "source": "https://aiinstitute.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/additive-manufacturing-at-ford-a-long-way-from-the-model-t/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2018",
   "title": "Opens the Advanced Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.thefabricator.com/additivereport/news/additive/additive-manufacturing-continues-to-make-inroads-in-industry-as-ford-opens-new-manufacturing-center"
  },
  {
   "date": "Aug 2021",
   "title": "Plans to mass-produce a binder-jetted aluminium 6061 part for a popular model with ExOne, in two to three years",
   "detail": "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.",
   "source": "https://3dprint.com/284045/ford-to-mass-produce-metal-3d-printed-part-for-popular-car/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Feb 2025",
   "title": "Its additive team prints about 1,000 parts for the Red Bull Powertrains Formula One partnership",
   "detail": "Parts are X-rayed and CT scanned as well as tested for strength, hardness and geometry.",
   "source": "https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/complex-parts-testing-is-early-focus-of-ford--red-bull-f1-partne0"
  },
  {
   "date": "May 2026",
   "title": "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",
   "detail": "The lead-time figures are those of Sharrow, the customer.",
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/ford-and-sharrow-engineering-cut-propeller-production-time-from-months-to-weeks-with-3d-printed-sand-casting/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Sep 2026",
   "title": "Granted a US patent for a passenger vehicle with a robotic arm for additive manufacturing, with uses that include filling potholes and depositing concrete",
   "detail": "Filed in May 2022. A patent, not a product plan.",
   "source": "https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/12723418"
  }
 ]
}