Supported by Innovate UK , the Manufacturing Technology Centre ( MTC ) works to speed up industrial growth in the UK by creating and embedding future skills and developing and proving manufacturing processes, such as 3D printing. The latter is specifically what the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), part of the MTC, focuses on, and its DRAMA research project spent the last three years setting up a stronger AM supply chain for aerospace.

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But the NCAM also supports automotive and motorsports AM applications: a perfect example of this can be found in the recent work its Coventry team has done to help Oxford Brookes Racing ( OBR ), the Oxford Brookes University ‘s formula student racing team, reach its 2020 all-electric goal . OBR is one of the top UK formula student racing (FSUK) teams, and has worked with the MTC on a number of projects before. […]

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