Additive Manufacturing Options Ltd. (AMS) has entered a collaboration with the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Tools Gross sales Authority (DESA) to analysis the technical feasibility of recovering important supplies from surplus Defence Belongings. This partnership marks the primary part of a venture aimed toward empowering the MOD with enhanced information of and management over present and future materials sourcing methods.
For AMS, this milestone contract with the UK Ministry of Defence signifies a major shift in direction of fostering a sustainable and resilient UK-centric provide chain. Notably this settlement highlights AMS’ capabilities and extra importantly, underscores the alignment of its imaginative and prescient with main protection trade gamers.
“AMS has tirelessly constructed momentum and experience inside the additive powder market with a pointy deal with offering recycled feedstocks. This settlement represents the following part in our mission to commercialize recycled supplies inside the additive manufacturing feedstock market. It stands as a crowning achievement in AMS’ historical past. Supporting the MOD in addressing important mineral accessibility and functionality is an honor and a testomony to the efforts of your complete AMS group,” mentioned Rob Higham, Director and CEO of AMS.
This engagement will assist the MOD’s efforts to allow a resilient UK-based provide chain exercising direct affect over the provision of significant minerals together with titanium to the UK market. This initiative champions a high-value round economic system strategy to feedstock sourcing positioning the MOD on the nucleus of future provide dynamics.
“This modern technical feasibility research to be delivered by Additive Manufacturing Options Ltd. is one other assured step ahead on MOD’s sustainability and round economic system journey. It’s a delight to have the ability to associate with Additive Manufacturing Options Ltd. and UK Strategic Command Defence Help to advance the MOD’s understanding as as to whether redundant and surplus Defence Belongings will be upcycled into new capabilities thereby lowering prices, rising resiliency, maximizing operational availability and enabling MOD to capitalize on and exploit new and rising applied sciences for max operational benefit,” mentioned Thomas Powell, Submarine Recycling Sustainability and Innovation Programme Supervisor at DESA.
The preliminary part of this collaboration will embody a complete functionality evaluation for the MOD incorporating trials of atomization additive manufacturing feasibility and exploration of future supplies. AMS goals to ship demonstrative geometry using recycled feedstocks by means of collaboration with a major MOD provider. The end result will advance in direction of subsequent phases specializing in materials qualification and industrialization.
