Research, projects and practical answers on large-format 3D printing for the nautical industry and composites, written by the NUGAE team.
You do not go to large-format 3D printing: it comes to you. The NUGAE Mobile Factory is a demo and production unit that sets up in your facility so you can watch the robot at work, test UL-LFAM technology on your own project and produce finished parts on site.
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3Druck.com, the German additive manufacturing magazine, interviewed our co-founder and CTO Francesco Belvisi about the UL-LFAM ecosystem: robots, patented extruder, NU-Slice and CoreLight3D®. Published on 25 September 2026 in German, English and Italian.
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NUGAE is at the Genoa International Boat Show, from 1 to 6 October 2026, at the Politecnico di Milano stand with the NEMO project. On show: the structural seat for an LP42 catamaran, 37 kg, 42 printing hours, 70% recycled material.
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Associate Professor at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, he has worked on yachts and advanced composites for more than thirty years. He answered our ten questions: the NEMO project, the permanence of technique and his next motorbike, 3D printed.
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A NU-Print system installed in a shipyard prints large-format components with no mould and integrated ribs. We move the technology, not the parts.
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From survey to installation: plug, moulds, half-shells and lamination of a fibreglass hard top explained step by step, why the result is often heavy, what you can do yourself, how to choose a builder and when a 3D-printed hollow monoblock structure pays off.
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A CoreLight3D® camper cell weighing about 70 kg instead of 200 in fibreglass took a Piaggio Ape TM 703 from Italy to Nordkapp and home again: 4,500 km on the way up, nine countries, back on 6 September 2026. Covered by 3D Printing Industry, VoxelMatters and 3D ADEPT Media.
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Five hard tops built by NUGAE with robotic 3D printing, from 24 to 80 kg and from 20 to 100 printing hours, show why printing wins for one-off parts: no plug and no mould, less weight up high, delivery in weeks and the same finish as a fibreglass part.
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At the Teatro Sociale in Como, from 5 to 27 September 2026, a collaborative robot assembles a replica of Volta's pile and lights a bulb. The copper, zinc and felt discs, the bases and the cap of the pile are 3D printed by NUGAE; an AI avatar of Alessandro Volta answers visitors' questions.
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In the Breaking Rules video we put a solid wood beam and a sandwich panel printed with the UL-LFAM method under a hydraulic press: the wood snaps at 1.5 tonnes, the printed panel takes 2 tonnes and springs back.
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Published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering: NUGAE's patented hollow-rib 3D printing yields composite panels as stiff as a balsa sandwich but about 10% lighter, plus a RIB windscreen tested for 150 hours at sea and a hardtop for a 13 m RIB.
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