Roboze and PUNCH Torino: additive manufacturing in the automotive and marine sectors

PUNCH Torino opts for Roboze ultra-precise 3D printing!

A new partnership aimed at accelerating and validating additive manufacturing applications for the automotive and marine sectors. This is the goal of the new partnership agreement signed by Roboze with PUNCH Torino.

PUNCH Torino has gained strong skills within the additive manufacturing world, starting from the automotive technological development capabilities, since 2015 to exploit its enormous advantages in product design and industrialization. This know-how will be crucial for the development of materials and technologies with a focus on our target market.

This will allow the development of even more competitive and high-performance products in the near future, with a substantial impact on delivery times, making the process increasingly competitive and sustainable compared with conventional technologies.

We chose Roboze as our partner because we strongly believe in its patented ultra-precise 3D printing technology, which will allow us to replace the metal alloys currently used in propulsion systems in the automotive and marine sectors with super-polymers and composite materials, reducing its weight and improving its performance. This technology allows us to create increasingly complex, resistant and functionally integrated components, through the application of specific product development techniques for Additive Manufacturing.

Gianmarco Boretto, Director Hardware Engineering of PUNCH Torino

The commitment for territory and sustainability

The partnership signed by Roboze with PUNCH Torino certainly offers economic, territorial, and environmental benefits to the companies involved. Economic as the implementation of this technology leads to an improvement of the product, both in performance and design, accompanied by a reduction in development/production costs and time, with the possibility of digitizing warehouses and printing components as needed.

Territorial because, by bringing the value of production back to use, it brings back skills and job opportunities previously imported from other countries. Regarding sustainability, the resulting reduction in transportation and shipping allows the reduction of Co₂ emissions.

But that's not all! Roboze is a technology company that can translate current and future manufacturing needs into solutions. PUNCH's know-how will be an accelerator for the development and deployment of these solutions on the territory.

Thanks to the great experience of PUNCH Torino we will be able to implement our additive manufacturing technology in the automotive and marine fields, through a high quality and repeatable 3D printing process and a new circular and sustainable production model. We want to demonstrate that by integrating PUNCH Torino's high engineering skills with our high-performance super materials, it is possible to design and develop innovative and high-performance systems; a winning example are the case studies previously realized, among which we find engine brackets with organic structures and integrated rails for high-pressure hydrogen applications.

Giancarlo Scianatico, EMEA Business Director of Roboze