Nine customer stories
with quantifiable results.

A centrifugal pump at Bozzetto Group failed due to extreme corrosion of the bearing support. The original was made of GG-25 cast iron, the manufacturer had left the market, and replacement via traditional suppliers took up to 2 months. Replacing the entire pump was estimated at €5,000.

The metal ice cleats of the K2 Black Panther each weigh almost 12 kg. Soldiers have to change 30–50 of them per vehicle under time pressure — a considerable physical burden plus a negative effect on fuel efficiency. The traditional design left little room for lightweight optimisation.

Eurobearings has been producing custom bearing systems for turbines and cement mills for almost 30 years. Traditional subtractive production from billet caused up to 80% material loss — and growing lead times for the sizes their customers demanded.

Aerospace components dependent on large billets and long deliveries from specialised forges. The combination of import lead times, a high buy-to-fly ratio and strict certification put pressure on both cost price and planning for turbine housings.

Injection moulds for automotive parts with cycles that took longer than strictly necessary — conventional straight cooling channels cannot follow the complex geometry of modern parts, resulting in uneven cooling and a cycle-time bottleneck.

Motorsport demands parts that can handle extreme thermal loads, in low volumes and short iteration cycles. Traditional subtractive production was both too expensive and too slow for the prototype iterations the racing team needed.

In the construction industry, downtime is the enemy. Failing worn concrete nozzles meant dependence on global supply chains for stainless replacements — growing lead times, maintenance that could no longer be planned, and production stoppages with a direct cost impact.

Conventionally, a turbine case would be assembled from several forged or cast components, with the associated lead time, weld seams and quality risks. For R&D iterations this route was too slow and too expensive to move the research forward.

Marine eductors are classic defence spare parts — specific enough not to be kept on the shelf, critical enough that operational deployment depends on them. Original OEM lead times of weeks to months are incompatible with operational requirements on board vessels.