AML3D announced the successful commissioning of the first two, custom, large scale, ARCEMY X systems for Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS). NNS is a division of HII, America’s largest military shipbuilder, delivering nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, surface ships and defence technology.
These first two NNS custom ARCEMY X systems use a 10,886kg positioner to create a heavy capacity build capability for use in a variety of shipbuilding applications. NNS has already placed a second, ~$9.9 million, order for a further 4 additional custom ARCEMY X systems to be delivered in early 2027 from AML3D’s US Technology and manufacturing hub in Stow, Ohio. NNS is planning to use this initial fleet of six custom ARCEMY X systems to leverage advanced additive manufacturing technology to expedite lead times and provide alternatives to traditional manufacturing techniques. The investment by NNS is the latest of a series of capital investments to harness technology to increase shipbuilding throughput.
AML3D CEO Sean Ebert said: “The strong and growing demand we are seeing from the US MIB is a ringing endorsement of AML3D’s U.S. scale up strategy. We are doubling the capacity at Stow to ensure we are well positioned to maximize the opportunity outlined in the letter of intent we received from the from the US Navy earlier in the 2026 financial year that indicated a need for up to 100 additive manufacturing systems and 3,400 additively manufactured parts by 2030. It is also pleasing to see the same demand signals that underpinned AML3D’s strategic push into the U.S. market are emerging in other globally significant defence markets, in particularly the UK where AML3D has already won UK defence contracts. We are looking to leverage our U.S. strategic playbook in Europe, with plans and funds to establish a European Technology and manufacturing hub as we have done is Stow. Establishing a European hub will position AML3D with manufacturing capability to support the USA, UK and Australia, the three signatories to the trilateral AUKUS defence partnership. We will also have the capacity to deliver on our strategic growth driver of accessing non-defence industrial manufacturing sectors across the U.S., Europe and Australia.”
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