Industry Feature
Advanced 3D Printing for Flight-Ready Parts
From on-demand MRO and spare parts in commercial aviation to innovation in Urban Air Mobility, aerospace industry leaders are improving responsiveness to rapidly shifting supply chains and labor availability with Additive Manufacturing.
The Digital Forge gives modern manufacturers the simplest way to build with materials they already know. Fabricate end-use carbon fiber composites unattended, overnight. Skip multi-week lead times and expedite fees for metal and composite prototypes, tools, and fixtures.
Along with ULTEM™ 9085, Markforged offers a new engineered high temperature plastic on the Digital Forge. Vega™ filament is Markforged’s first ultra high-performance carbon fiber filled PEKK for 3D printing critical aerospace parts. Traceable, flight-ready Onyx FR-A and Carbon Fiber FR-A provide another flame retardant printing solution with NCAMP material qualification on the X7 printer.
*The ULTEM™ and 9085 trademarks are used under license from SABIC, its affiliates or subsidiaries.
ULTEM™ 9085 Filament, Onyx FR-A and Carbon Fiber FR-A are all lot-qualified, flame-retardant materials. Each is purpose-built for the requirements of the aerospace, transportation and automotive industries. FR-A materials establish lot-level material traceability and pass the test suite necessary for qualification under 14 CFR 25.853 for most 3D-printable parts.
Markforged recognizes the advanced regulatory and functional requirements of the aerospace industry. Traceable materials, software version-locking for parts, in-process laser inspection, and NCAMP qualification for Onyx FR-A and Carbon Fiber FR-A on the X7 provide the foundations for accelerating the path from digital art to flying part.
Tony Boschi and the team at Sidus Space spent years working on LizzieSat, a partially 3D printed satellite that launched for the first time in 2024. Throughout the design and building process, Sidus found that at every turn, Markforged materials and parts met the rigorous standards required for space travel - from strength and traceability, to economy and speed. Now, Markforged parts are orbiting our little blue dot on each LizzieSat.
In the aerospace industry, quality and on-the-fly adaptability are crucial to success. Markforged more than delivers on both fronts.
VP of Engineering, Cabin Management Solutions (CMS)
