AML3D sells large-format ARCEMY-X 3D printing cell to US manufacturer FasTech

AML3D is expanding its presence in the US market and reports an order worth around 1.69 million Australian dollars for a large-format ARCEMY-X system for FasTech LLC. The company, based near the U.S. Navy Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Danville, Virginia, produces components for defense, aerospace, energy and other demanding industries. The new system will be delivered from AML3D’s US Technology Centre in Stow, Ohio, and configured there from the existing machine inventory.

To accelerate commissioning, FasTech will receive an ARCEMY-X cell including an already available positioning system with a load capacity of about 6,000 pounds, i.e. around 2.7 tonnes. A replacement system will subsequently be installed in Stow so that the local production capacity is maintained. Installation at FasTech is scheduled for the third quarter of the 2026 financial year. The system expands the company’s infrastructure for the additive manufacturing of large-volume metal components and is designed for applications with high mechanical and safety requirements.

The system is part of AML3D’s US scale-up strategy, which, in addition to system sales, also includes contract manufacturing for defense applications as well as for utilities, aerospace, marine, and the oil and gas industry. With the installation at FasTech, the ninth ARCEMY system will be put into operation in the USA. This expands the network of manufacturing partners that additively produce large-format metal components and can offer customers short lead times for complex parts.

AML3D CEO Sean Ebert said: “The FasTech ARCEMY X sale builds on AML3D’s success in supporting the US Defense sector and demonstrates relevance to the broader US industrial manufacturing. ARCEMY  technology delivers large-scale industrial parts faster, using less energy, creating less waste and to a higher standard than traditional manufacturing process. Demand for ARCEMY systems and their high-speed component manufacturing capability continues to grow in the US. The addition of FasTech to the network of US based, ARCEMY enabled, third party industrial manufacturers which helps to meet that demand. AML3D is becoming increasingly embedded and indispensable at multiple levels across the US manufacturing landscape.”

The technology aims to produce large-scale parts with shorter throughput times, lower energy consumption and less material waste compared to conventional processes. Ebert sees AML3D as increasingly integrated into the US manufacturing landscape at multiple levels, as ARCEMY systems are used not only directly at customers’ sites but also at independent contract manufacturers.