It’s been a busy couple weeks over at Velo3D, the metal additive manufacturing company whose future seemed uncertain just eight months ago. Fortunately, Velo3D, which was delisted from the NYSE in September 2024 appears to very much be on the upswing, as it has brought on new leadership and has formed partnerships with a number of aerospace and defense players, including Space X, which signed an $8 million licensing and service deal, as well as space company Momentus Inc. Now, Velo3D has announced its latest cooperation with Ohio Ordinance Works, Inc. (OOW), an American manufacturer of firearms and military systems.
The agreement between the two companies will see Velo3D provide application engineering, additive design and analysis services to OOW within the framework of its 3D Printed Military Weapons Development initiative. OOW, which operates a 35,000+ square foot facility, is a class 3 manufacturer of automatic and semi-automatic firearms, which it supplies for military and law enforcement applications globally. The company is interested in leveraging metal AM in the early stages of its product development process.
“We are excited to collaborate with Ohio Ordnance Works on this critical defense initiative,” commented Arun Jeldi, CEO of Velo3D. “Through our application engineering, additive design and analysis services, we are supporting OOW in the development phase to ensure that their components are optimized for 3D printing. This partnership enables us to help OOW streamline their design process, enhance performance and ultimately meet the demanding needs of the defense sector.”
Velo3D recently launched a Rapid Production Solutions (RPS) offering, which OOW and other partners like Momentus will be working with. RPS effectively enables companies to leverage Velo3D’s know-how and its own production cells to facilitate the integration and scaling of metal AM for development and production applications. With OOW specifically, Velo3D will offer application engineering and design services, with an emphasis on material selection, design optimization and part testing. The aim is to optimize weapon components for additive manufacturing, ensuring that they are high performing, strong and primed for manufacturing. This will allow OOW to not only benefit from improved development processes but accelerate its own production.
“At Ohio Ordnance Works, we are committed to delivering the highest-quality military components to our defense partners,” added Robert Landies III, President of OOW. “By partnering with Velo3D, we can leverage their expertise in application engineering and design for additive manufacturing to optimize our design processes and ensure that we are producing parts with the precision, speed and quality our military customers expect.”
