ADDMAN, a precision-engineering options firm, has acquired Forecast 3D, a polymer additive manufacturing firm based mostly in Carlsbad, California, which is able to function as a part of ADDMAN’s Polymer division. The transaction expands ADDMAN’s polymer manufacturing capabilities, digital infrastructure, and West Coast operations in assist of rising buyer demand and the corporate’s long-term technique to construct essentially the most complete AM platform in North America.
Forecast 3D is a 30-year veteran in AM and an early industrial adopter of AM applied sciences. The enterprise provides important capability in powder-based polymer applied sciences, together with Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), together with a mature digital quoting and buyer assist platform. These capabilities strengthen ADDMAN’s means to assist companions as their applications evolve, from early improvement prototypes by full-rate manufacturing.
The addition of Forecast 3D’s Carlsbad operation alongside ADDMAN’s current Dinsmore facility in Southern California creates a regional hub for polymer AM. Prospects will profit from expanded capability, sooner lead instances, and seamless entry to ADDMAN’s broader product portfolio, together with polymer and metallic AM, precision machining, and injection molding.
“Our technique has all the time been about scale and functionality,” mentioned Joe Calmese, CEO of ADDMAN. “We’re constructing the most important additive manufacturing service supplier out there. Designed to assist any half, any course of, at any stage of the client’s journey. Bringing Forecast 3D into ADDMAN makes that imaginative and prescient actual right now, and we are going to proceed to boost the bar for what prospects ought to count on from a sophisticated manufacturing companion.”
Forecast 3D was beforehand operated as a part of a worldwide industrial manufacturing group, and the transaction was supported by ADDMAN’s management staff and possession companions at American Industrial Companions. With this acquisition, ADDMAN’s industrial additive fleet now exceeds 160 techniques, positioning ADDMAN among the many largest additive manufacturing suppliers in North America in simply 5 years.
“Reaching this scale issues, however it isn’t the end line,” mentioned Calmese. “Our focus is how we use it; the place we make investments subsequent, how we companion, and the way we proceed increasing what AM can do. That’s the journey we’re on at ADDMAN.”
