Aerospace 3D Printing Pioneers Join Forces as Premium AEROTEC Acquires APWORKS

IMTS

Share this Article

APWORKS is an expert in metal 3D printing, and has been involved with initiatives and partnerships all over the industry. Until now, APWORKS has been a subsidiary of Airbus, itself a frequent user of 3D printing, but today the company announced that it has been acquired by aerostructures supplier Premium AEROTEC.

Premium AEROTEC is no stranger to using metal 3D printing in aviation; it was the first aviation supplier to introduce 3D printed titanium components into the structure of an aircraft. The company has capabilities running through the full additive manufacturing process chain, from product conception to development and printing to downstream process steps.

“Our investment has created a powerful alliance between Premium AEROTEC and APWORKS which opens up all of the opportunities in additive manufacturing for both actual and future clients,” said Dr. Thomas Ehm, Chairman of the Executive Board at Premium AEROTEC. “We want to actively support APWORKS on its dynamic growth journey. With our experience as a pioneer in metal 3D printing and our knowledge of the tried and trusted quality standards in aerospace, we are the industrial reference point for APWORKS’ innovative ideas.”

APWORKS’ goal is to support its clients in advancing in additive manufacturing-related areas. The company has a broad client base and can rely on expertise in identifying application fields suitable for 3D printing, optimization in line with 3D design guidelines and an expert understanding of materials. APWORKS produces components both in mass and as prototypes using its own machinery, serving clients from several industry sectors and helping them to pursue industrial production of components using additive manufacturing.

“With Premium AEROTEC coming on board, we can take a huge step closer to our vision of industrial mass production using additive manufacturing technology,” said Joachim Zettler, Managing Director of APWORKS. “The aim is to combine APWORKS’ highly dynamic approach in solving the issues posed by our clients’ additive manufacturing questions with Premium AEROTEC’s decades of production experience to elicit maximum benefit for our clients from each and every industry, throughout the entire additive manufacturing value added chain.”

The partnering of APWORKS and Premium AEROTEC will give clients access to 11 production units and a wide variety of materials. Premium AEROTEC will be the sole shareholder, with APWORKS maintaining its own market presence as an independent company.

APWORKS helps clients to identify which components are suitable for 3D printing, then to optimize them and produce them as quickly as possible. The company also focuses on prototyping, development and distribution of Scalmalloy, a patented high strength aluminum alloy for additive manufacturing and mass production. In addition, APWORKS is working on the development of special software for additive manufacturing.

The purchasing price of APWORKS has not been disclosed, per agreement between Airbus and Premium AEROTEC.

Discuss this and other 3D printing topics at 3DPrintBoard.com or share your thoughts below.

 

Share this Article


Recent News

Will There Be a Desktop Manufacturing Revolution outside of 3D Printing?

Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing



Categories

3D Design

3D Printed Art

3D Printed Food

3D Printed Guns


You May Also Like

Featured

Pressing Refresh: What CEO Brad Kreger and Velo3D Have Learned About Running a 3D Printing Company

To whatever extent a business is successful thanks to specialization, businesses will nonetheless always be holistic entities. A company isn’t a bunch of compartments that all happen to share the...

Würth Additive Launches Digital Inventory Services Platform Driven by 3D Printing

Last week, at the Additive Manufacturing Users’ Group (AMUG) Conference in Chicago (March 10-14), Würth Additive Group (WAG) launched its new inventory management platform, Digital Inventory Services (DIS). WAG is...

Featured

Hypersonic Heats Up: CEO Joe Laurienti on the Success of Ursa Major’s 3D Printed Engine

“It’s only been about 24 hours now, so I’m still digesting it,” Joe Laurienti said. But even via Zoom, it was easy to notice that the CEO was satisfied. The...

Featured

3D Printing’s Next Generation of Leadership: A Conversation with Additive Minds’ Dr. Gregory Hayes

It’s easy to forget sometimes that social media isn’t reality. So, at the end of 2023, when a burst of doom and gloom started to spread across the Western world’s...