Decade of Samsonite 3D Printing: Innovation - From Design to Line

From concept to mass production, innovation has always been an integral part of Samsonite's DNA

"3D printing has helped us to quickly create good designs while meeting the high standards of our customers

Although Samsonite now needs to 3D print a large number of parts each week, the company's strategic decision is to rely on external printing services such as Materialise rather than building its own 3D printing facility

Avoid unnecessary costs with prototyping

Most of the components used in Samsonite hard case travel cases are produced by injection molding, which is expensive to put into production

“Spending a large budget on prototyping seems like a huge investment

Functional prototypes are also used to test product quality

Appearance Prototypes have the same appearance attributes as the final product and can be used for marketing purposes, allowing the team to demonstrate their concept to the outside world before the product goes into production