On Friday, it’s Callaway Golf Co., which announced it is investing $15 million in a 3D printing facility in AllianceTexas, where the golf equipment maker plans to develop and manufacture titanium products in northeast Fort Worth.
The facility will sit next to Callaway’s North America Distribution Center, a 783,465-square-foot fulfillment and warehouse operation at Alliance Center North 3, which Callaway has leased since 2020.
The company said it expects the printing facility to open in mid-2027 and begin supplying some of its U.S. product needs in 2028, starting with custom titanium products.
Callaway says 3D printing will let its engineers make shapes and structures that conventional manufacturing methods can’t produce. The Fort Worth facility will expand the company’s capacity to research and test those designs and give it a dedicated U.S. production site for bringing them to market.
“We believe 3D printing represents one of the most significant opportunities to advance golf club performance in decades, and we’re investing to lead that future,” Chip Brewer, Callaway’s president and CEO, said in a press release.
The project follows about seven years of research and development in additive manufacturing, the process of building objects layer by layer from a digital design.
Callaway has used the technology to produce prototypes and custom models in-house since late 2022. The new facility will build on that work by giving the company a place to manufacture some of the products its engineers develop.
The Fort Worth investment follows a larger manufacturing effort in Chicopee, Massachusetts, where Callaway says it has spent more than $100 million over the past several years on its golf ball operations. (You can never have enough of those in your bag.) In AllianceTexas, the project adds manufacturing next to a site already serving as a hub for the company’s North American distribution.
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