Wire Additive Manufacturing company AML3D is making the final preparations to deliver its large-scale ARCEMY X-Edition 6700 System to Oak Ridge International Laboratory in Tennessee as it enters the US Defence market as an OEM supplier.
In a company update, AML3D CEO Ryan Millar said: “From a standing start, in January of this year, we have developed a robust and growing early-stage US sales pipeline and are strengthening our understanding of how to convert these pipeline opportunities into contracts like the Oak Ridge ARCEMY deal,” Millar said.
The company announced that it is entering the US Defence market as an OEM supplier in February 2023, after it secured a $1 million purchase agreement with BlueForge Alliance to deliver a large-scale Wire Arc Manufacturing metal 3D printing system to support the US Navy’s submarine industrial base.
AML3D said it is finalising the assembly of the ARCEMY X, which is scheduled to be shipped to Oak Ridge in early June. This will then be followed by a commissioning process prior to being production ready in September 2023.
In addition to the commissioning process, BlueForge Alliance also signed an alloy characterisation and testing contract to demonstrate ARCEMY X 3D metal printed components meet the standards required for the US Navy submarine program.
AML3D said it has completed the alloy characterisation phase of the contract and alloys are now ready to move into the testing phase.
The company is leveraging the US Defence network of its value-added reseller (VAR) partner Phillips Corps to expand the AML3D sales team based in the United States.
The VAR agreement was signed in April 2023 and has already added significant US Defence leads to AML3D’s US sales pipeline, the company said in an ASX announcement.
“We are in active negotiations around several additional OEM sales into the US Defence sector and I look forward to updating the market on our progress in due course,” Millar said.
