Research, projects and practical answers on large-format 3D printing for the nautical industry and composites, written by the NUGAE team.
Former partner at Ochain, now at SRAM where he works on the brand, investor and founder of the investor club Largo Saint Fons. He answered our ten questions: why he invested in NUGAE and how he would explain large format 3D printing to a child.
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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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