Hyundai & Kia Open Additive Manufacturing Solution Center in South Korea

Hyundai Motor Group (which, in addition to owning Hyundai, holds a large ownership stake in Kia) maintains an R&D center in Hwaseong, South Korea called Namyang, the company’s largest such facility globally. It’s over 3 million square feet and employs over 10,000 workers, and Hyundai and Kia recently publicized that, this year, the location also became the site of their joint Additive Manufacturing Solution Center (AMSC).

Now, as an article on the AMSC in Automotive World notes, the fact that Hyundai has been using 3D printing since 1996 but only opened a dedicated facility 30 years later implies that AM took a while to gain much traction in the company’s operations. On the other hand, it’s noteworthy that the company has at least half a dozen different AM processes on display at the faci