Achieve Improved Functionality, Decreased Weight, and Lower Costs

Lightweight Aerospace Bracket from Thales

By tapping into our advanced metal additive technology and aerospace expertise, you can make shapes and structures that are impossible with traditional manufacturing. For your product, this means achieving improved functionality, decreased weight, and lower costs, all while maintaining or improving material strength.

Your component designs can fit your exact functional requirements for the part, and you can optimize structures - with strong, hollow lattice structures, for example - to reduce weight by 10% to 50%.

NEW - Further Reduce Mass

Learn how NEW Certified Scalmalloy (A), a high-strength, corrosion-resistant aluminum that is 40% lighter than titanium, further reduces mass in your components. Benefit from optional, cost-effective standard service for APWORKS Scalmalloy production certification through 3D Systems AIG team.

Solving Structural Challenges: Optimizing Satellite Antenna Brackets

  • Thales Bracket Close-Up Aerospace

  • Reduce Component Weight

    Use direct metal printing to manufacture strong, lightweight satellite components that maintain or enhance functional performance. Since components made with direct metal printing are light, satellites can carry more without increasing costs.
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  • Match Material Specifications

    Due to the unique vacuum chamber concept of our metal printers, argon gas consumption is heavily reduced while at the same time showing best in class oxygen purity (<25 ppm). This results in exceptionally strong parts of high chemical purity.
  • Team Design

  • Decrease Lead Time

    Manufacture components with uncompromised strength that meet the unique specifications of any satellite.

More Aerospace and Defense Applications

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Metal 3D Printed DLR Fuel Injector

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Heat Exchangers

3D Printed Waveguides, Filters, and Antennas

Electric Engine Components

Learn More About Our Solutions for Lightweight Bracket Applications

DMP Factory 350 Duel 3D Printer

DMP Factory 350 and DMP Factory 350 Dual

Scalable, high quality metal AM with integrated powder management

Manufacture metal parts with scalable DMLS with removable build chamber for continuous printing

DMP Factory 500

Robust, high quality metal AM with integrated powder management

LaserForm Ti Gr5 (A)

High strength, low weight, excellent biocompatibility

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3DXpert

All-in-One Integrated Software for Industrial Additive Manufacturing

Certified Scalmalloy (A)

High strength aluminum with excellent corrosion resistance

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  • Application Innovation Group

    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.
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