BMW Group brands 3D-print metal & plastic parts for some exclusive cars. Additive Manufacturing Campus near Munich features 50 metal & polymer printers. High cost of Laser Beam Melting means low ...

Work with 3D printers began in 2010 at BMW with small-scale components for its DTM racers, such as the water pump pulley. It expanded in 2012 with laser-sintered parts for the Rolls-Royce Phantom.

BMW started experimenting with 3D-printing in 2010, when their DTM cars needed lightweight water pump pulleys. Parts made using additive manufacturing processes made it into series production two ...

Nine companies, including Nike, BMW and Johnson & Johnson, are testing the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution, says Stephen Nigro, who runs HP's 3-D printing business.

BMW Group enhances recycling for 3D printing material production - transforming waste powder and shredded parts.

BMW is not the first German automaker to dabble in metal 3D printing, but it could be the first to bring those parts to production vehicles. John Keeble/Getty Images ...

Its Research and Innovation Center in Munich already incorporates an Additive Manufacturing facility which produces some 140,000 3D-printed parts per year, for several departments of the Group.