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The first Sprite prototypes have been made with the help of Materialise
Gérard Périssel, a 63-year-old designer, came up with the idea, and after four years of research, the Sprite has come to life, exists and can get you from A to B. It’s a small car for urban use, available in two versions, for drivers with or without a licence. It is a successor to the legendary 2CV, the extremely famous Méhari and the unforgettable Austin Mini Moke.
RP technology for personalised one-off cars
For one of Zagato's exclusive projects, they partnered up with Materialise, who specialise in personalised manufacturing. This resulted in the use of RP technology for a personalised one-off car.
R.I.M. case study: It goes on wheels
One of the projects which Materialise and Röchling Automotive closely collaborated on, is a set of wheel arch liners for the new Volvo convertible C70 which was introduced to the market the end of 2005. For many years Röchling Automotive has developed and manufactured wheel arch liners (as a part of their technical plastic product range).
Materialise contributes to Pininfarina Sintesi concept car
At the 78th International Motor Show in Geneva, Pininfarina presented the Sintesi, a new concept car that explores ideas and solutions for the car of the future. It is the first time in history that additive technologies play such a prominent role in a concept car project.
Automotive testimony: Perfect bumper match
Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior is a global leader in the design and manufacture of bumpers, fenders, body panels and body modules. At the 2003 Frankfurt show Plastic Omnium introduced an entirely new concept of fixing headlights onto the bumper instead of onto the vehicle. This project was taken to the next step in 2004. The project leaders needed a bumper skin that could be assembled with this new concept in order to be able to present it to different automotive manufacturers.
Car speakers for Philips, Belgium
Being involved from an early stage, Materialise provided the Philips engineers with extended quotes and technical support to optimise their car speakers' design for injection moulding.
Materialise helps Jaguar engineers realise the CX-75 concept car
Specialists from Materialise UK have worked with Jaguar Land Rover engineers to provide solutions for the unique design challenges associated with the company’s revolutionary CX-75 concept car. Because the concept design called for organic shapes to be used in the interior cabin traditional machining methods were unsuitable. Therefore, the alternative production techniques offered by Materialise were used, with the advantage that they not only provided the desired results but were also cost effective.
Lear Automotive saves time and money with metal plating technology
Thanks to Materialise’s unique combination of Mammoth stereolithography and Metal Plating service, Lear automotive is able to perform trimming trials on metal frames of car seat prototypes in a cost efficient way, with representative thicknesses of the final frame.
Customer Story
Kooymans Industrieel | Ontwerp - situated in the Netherlands - is an industrial design bureau specialising in the development of products for the benefit of the mobility of people and goods: buses, trains, ships and agricultural machines but also street furnishings, sanitary units and signposting systems.
Prototyped BMW Mini Cooper
Materialise pulled the sheet on a prototyped car that shows the unique solutions its Industrial Services & Software divisions can provide by joining forces. Being active in both the software and the rapid prototyping field gives Materialise the advantage to offer advanced, tailor-made solutions.
