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Mass Customized, Automotive 3D Printing Production Is Coming in 2018 During the past year, weve seen several successfultest cases leading to a significant increase in the adoption of, 3Dprinting for production of aircraft and aerospace parts. Todays MINI Yours Customised announcement from BritishGerman automaker MINI, coupled with other underlying trends in mobility that have emerged in recent months, indicate that 2018 will likelybe the year in which the automotive industry will begin mass adoption of 3D printing for production. Additive manufacturing mass production technologies are ready both in terms of speeds and surface quality. Digital materialproperties both for metal and polymer, composites are now up to par for enduse parts, costs are rapidly dropping and industry awareness is high. The benefits of automotive 3D printing have been largely established and the race is on.