MT Magazine March/April 2024

The Story of Strati: 3D Printing a Car Today there are stereolithography and selective laser sintering technologies. Fused deposition modeling and laser powder bed fusion. And more. People use additive to make tooling and eyewear, nozzles for SpaceX rockets, and fuel system valves for John Deere tractors. And more. But at IMTS 2014, a group from industry, a government national laboratory, tech, and AMT got together to do something that had never been done: print a drivable car at IMTS.

BY GARY S. VASILASH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

On Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in Chicago, something started before the opening of IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show in the Emerging Technology Center (ETC) that has reverberated through our industry ever since.