Australian metal additive manufacturing company AML3D and Austal USA have marked a new chapter in their ongoing partnership with the delivery and successful installation of a containerized ARCEMY system at the US Navy’s Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Danville , Virginia. The unit, AML3D’s first portable edition of the ARCEMY platform, arrives pre-mounted inside a standard 20-foot shipping container, a format specifically chosen for rapid repositioning as manufacturing needs evolve.

Its installation triggered the final 50% payment of the approximately AU$1.2 million order, bringing Austal USA’s total fleet at Danville to three ARCEMY systems alongside two existing large-scale custom units.

ARCEMY X system. Photo via AML3D.

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