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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Santiago Herrera, Mario author Igos, Elorri author Alegre Calderón, Jesús Manuel author Martel Martín, Sonia author Barros García, Rocío author 2024-04 As new technologies emerge is necessary to assess if they can actually contribute to sustainable improvement of industrial processes. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to determine environmental impacts and compare systems. However, this comparison raises challenges when they have different maturity. This paper performs ex-ante LCA of an additive manufacturing (AM) technology, based on a step-wise approach built with parametrized modelling, allowing fair comparison with its conventional counterpart, for the study case of a gearbox component. Results show that AM technology generates higher impacts than conventional manufacturing (CM) casting process, using baseline values. These impacts can be reduced by 94% with best operating performances from literature, with emissions from 4520 to 264 kg CO2 eq./kg piece, and non-significant difference with CM (demonstrated by Monte Carlo sampling). A 58% weight reduction is necessary for the AM process to improves its environmental sustainability. This research provides eco-design recommendations supporting decision making for further development of new technology. 2214-9937 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9296 10.1016/j.susmat.2023.e00819 Life cycle assessment Scale-up Ex-ante LCA Additive manufacturing Emerging technologies Eco-desing Ex-ante life cycle assessment of directed energy deposition based additive manufacturing: A comparative gearbox production case study