Airbus remains loyal to Eindhoven's Additive Industries in scaling up its production capacity.

Bart Brouwers | Aug 14, 2019

After three years of prototyping with Additive Industries' MetalFAB1 in Taufkirchen (near Munich), the Airbus subsidiary APWORKS has decided to scale up series production for its aerospace industry. For this purpose, the company is relocating this part of its activities to Bristol, England. APWORKS was the first real customer of Additive Industries and has extensively tested the MetalFAB1 Beta system since its installation in March 2016. Additive Industries is headquartered in Strijp-T in Eindhoven.
APWORKS' main focus in Taufkirchen is on the development and production of complex applications for metal additive manufacturing in unregulated industries such as automotive, robotics, or tooling. Therefore, it has been decided to carry out series production for the aerospace industry – another sector – closer to the Additive Industries facility on the aerospace campus in Filton, near Bristol.
Joachim Zettler, CEO of APWORKS, is convinced that the production of additive manufacturing in metal (via 3D printing) will continue to evolve and be able to compete with more conventional processes such as casting, machining, and powder metallurgy. "In the coming years, we expect this market to continue growing steadily, and especially in the aerospace industry, new aircraft and airplane engines will increasingly contain parts produced in this way."

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