AML3D has announced a new prototype Nickle-Aluminium-Bronze (NAB) component order to support the US Navy’s submarine program.
The new order - separate from the alloy characterisation and testing contract announced earlier in the week - is for the manufacture of an approximately 1 tonne prototype using AML3D’s proprietary ARCEMY 3D metal printing technology.
The order has been received from BlueForge Alliance.
This prototype component order is valued at circa A$0.60 million (US$387,000). The manufacturing cycle for the new prototype component is expected to run for a period 22-24 weeks and be carried out at AML3D’s facility in Adelaide, South Australia.
A successful conclusion to this new NAB prototype component order has the potential to expand the range of US Navy Submarine parts for which AML3D’s ARCEMY metal 3D printing systems can be used. It follows the recent ~A$2.02 million, (US$1.51 million), contract to develop and metal 3D print a complex, high demand, non-safety-critical, replacement NAB component used in US Navy submarines.
AML3D Interim CEO Sean Ebert said: “It is exciting to see this expansion of prototype component manufacturing using AML3D’s proprietary ARCEMY technology to support the US Navy’s submarine Industrial base."