Velo3D ships 7th Sapphire printer to aerospace customer

All previously installed systems are in full production creating mission-critical parts for aerospace applications. The balance of the systems will ship before the end of Q1 2020. The combination of twelve systems and their productivity makes this one of the largest concentrations of metal additive-manufacturing capacity in the world.

Velo3D pioneered the concept of SupportFree, known for its ability to build low-angle geometries without support structures. Where existing powder-bed AM machines will typically require extensive supports for angles below 45°, the Velo3D solution—consisting of Flow pre-print software, Sapphire printer and Assure quality management software—can consistently and repeatably produce high-quality metal parts with angles below 10°. This enables geometries, once considered not economically feasible or simply impossible, to be printed.

The system can also build large inner diameters up to 40mm without need of supports, as compared to 10mm with existing metal AM machines. Avoiding support structures and reducing post-processing has created a new business case for metal AM adoption.

“Our mission is to enable OEMs in aerospace and other key verticals to gain trust in 3D metal printing as a dependable manufacturing technology,” said Benny Buller, founder and CEO of Velo3D. “Our end-to-end solution enables users to adopt additive manufacturing without extensive redesign, increasing the viability of 3D metal printing of existing parts.”

Velo3D recently celebrated their one-year anniversary of commercialisation, announcing over $24 million in sales at the end of Q3 2019.

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