Each Atherton A-Range lug set starts life as a 3D CAD model, designed in-house and sliced into thousands of ultra-thin layers, around 60 microns each… that’s roughly the thickness of a human hair! Those layers are printed in titanium on our Renishaw RenAM 500Q using laser powder bed fusion. A fine layer of titanium powder is spread across the build plate, then four lasers melt the required geometry, fully re-melting through several layers below to create a dense, solid structure. The plate drops