Updated on 5 October 2026
AM engineering partner for lightweight automotive components – DfAM, prototyping, materials
Founder & Managing Director – Additive Manufacturing Engineer at ADDITERA
Bursa, Türkiye
About
We are an additive manufacturing (AM) engineering company based in Bursa, Türkiye's automotive hub, looking to join a Eureka Lightweighting consortium as an R&D partner.
What we can contribute:
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Lightweight part design with DfAM and topology optimisation for AM
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Prototyping, fabrication and testing of functional lightweight parts (polymer, composite and metal AM)
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Development of lightweight polymer and composite materials (e.g. fibre-reinforced polyamides, high-performance thermoplastics)
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Access to Bursa automotive suppliers for validation and demonstration
We can take on design, prototyping or material development work packages. Contact us for a short call before the deadline.
Topic
- Development and testing of lightweighting design and manufacturing concepts
- Development and use of novel or alternative advanced lightweight materials including optimized manufacturing processes
- Substitution of conventional (raw-)materials with sustainable and lightweighting alternatives with a lower ecological footprint
Type
- Expertise offered
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Industrial AM Partner for Lightweight Polymer & Composite Demonstrators
- Other
- Expertise offered
- Design - setting the project scope
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Development and testing of lightweighting design and manufacturing concepts
- Development and use of novel or alternative advanced lightweight materials including optimized manufacturing processes
- Substitution of conventional (raw-)materials with sustainable and lightweighting alternatives with a lower ecological footprint
- Use of digital technologies to optimize lightweighting design for circularity, lifecycle assessment and material tracking in the field of lightweighting
Oğuzhan Kudu
R&D Manager at Başaran Teknoloji
İstanbul, Türkiye
Project cooperation
Circular Lightweight Components via Large-Format Additive Manufacturing
- Project idea seeking partner(s)
- Design - setting the project scope
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Development and testing of lightweighting design and manufacturing concepts
- Development and use of novel or alternative advanced lightweight materials including optimized manufacturing processes
- Innovative approaches in the areas of ease of disassembly, reparability, recyclability, and reuse of lightweighting components
- Substitution of conventional (raw-)materials with sustainable and lightweighting alternatives with a lower ecological footprint
- Use of digital technologies to optimize lightweighting design for circularity, lifecycle assessment and material tracking in the field of lightweighting
Oğuzhan Kudu
R&D Manager at Başaran Teknoloji
İstanbul, Türkiye
Project cooperation
BIOCARGO — Bio-Based Fibre-Reinforced 3D-Printed Frames for Light Cargo Vehicles
- Project idea seeking partner(s)
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Development and testing of lightweighting design and manufacturing concepts
- Development and use of novel or alternative advanced lightweight materials including optimized manufacturing processes
- Substitution of conventional (raw-)materials with sustainable and lightweighting alternatives with a lower ecological footprint
Gerfried Cebrat
owner, main researcher at effiziente.st Energie- und Umweltconsulting e.U.
Graz, Austria