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SPEE3D’S Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Technology Successfully Prints Metal Parts In Sub-Zero Environments
SPEE3D, a leading metal additive manufacturing company, announced that their XSPEE3D system could successfully operate in a sub-zero environment and produce parts with comparable material properties to the same parts produced in a laboratory environment. SPEE3D was selected to participate in developing, demonstrating, and testing their Cold Spray Metal Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) equipment, along with partners from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) COMET Project and Philips Federal, as part of the Office of The Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology’s Point of Need Challenge (PON).
The PON project was managed by LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute, and it concluded that the XSPEE3D system is well-suited to support the DOD’s goal of expanding expeditionary manufacturing capabilities in extreme cold weather environments for battle damage repair and large metal component production.