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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/03/ford-and-hp-recycle-3d-printer-waste-to-make-truck-parts/
Slowly but surely, car companies are beginning to make themselves more sustainable. We most often hear about this movement in the context of using clean energy to power the production lines and assembly plants that put together new electric vehicles, but it shows up in smaller examples, too. Take Ford, for example. Working with HP, Ford has come up with a use for plastic waste left over from 3D printing, which it's now using to make truck parts.
Like many automakers, Ford has been getting more comfortable with additive manufacturing. 3D printing lends itself well to producing low-volume parts that would otherwise be too expensive to make due to the cost of creating tooling. But in this case, some of those printed parts will actually end up in production vehicles—sort of.
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Slowly but surely, car companies are beginning to make themselves more sustainable. We most often hear about this movement in the context of using clean energy to power the production lines and assembly plants that put together new electric vehicles, but it shows up in smaller examples, too. Take Ford, for example. Working with HP, Ford has come up with a use for plastic waste left over from 3D printing, which it's now using to make truck parts.
Like many automakers, Ford has been getting more comfortable with additive manufacturing. 3D printing lends itself well to producing low-volume parts that would otherwise be too expensive to make due to the cost of creating tooling. But in this case, some of those printed parts will actually end up in production vehicles—sort of.
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