Additive Component Manufacturing
At our production site in Huntersville, we’re integrating and scaling the entire Additive Manufacturing value chain from beginning to end.
Transforming Defense with Metal Additive Manufacturing
Precision, Performance, and Agility: Advancing Defense Engineering with Metal AM
Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) is transforming defense capabilities by enabling rapid, precise, and lightweight production of mission-critical components. From high-performance heat exchangers and cold plates that enhance thermal management in Mission and Weapon Systems, to RF components optimized for signal integrity and electromagnetic performance, and suppressors engineered for durability and acoustic control in Firearms, AM delivers unmatched design freedom and supply chain resilience. This technology empowers defense organizations to innovate faster, reduce lead times, and maintain operational readiness, even in the most demanding environments.
Advanced 3D-Printed Suppressors for Tactical Superiority
Engineered in collaboration with leading firearms and suppressor manufacturers, our metal additive manufactured suppressors are designed to deliver superior performance in the field. They significantly reduce gas blowback and operator exposure to harmful emissions such as carbon monoxide and lead. By minimizing the acoustic signature and mitigating the risk of hearing damage and brain trauma from repeated muzzle blasts, they enhance both safety and mission effectiveness. Built for extreme durability, our suppressors ensure long-lasting reliability under the harshest operational conditions.
We have achieved a major production milestone with the delivery of its 25,000th 3D-printed suppressor. Read full article here.
Cold Plates & Heat Exchangers for Mission-Critical Defense Applications
In defense technology, thermal management is mission-critical. We engineer additively manufactured cold plates and heat exchangers that meet the extreme demands of modern military platforms. With the design freedom of additive manufacturing, we create highly efficient, compact, and lightweight thermal components featuring complex internal geometries that are impossible to produce with conventional methods. These enable superior heat transfer, reduced pressure drop, and enhanced durability - ideal for high-power electronics, radar systems, and aerospace platforms.
We develop and manufacture large, complex aerospace and defense components for Northrop Grumman. Learn more.
RF Components for High-Performance Defense and Aerospace Systems
In RF and microwave engineering, precision and performance are non-negotiable. Oerlikon AM delivers additively manufactured RF components that meet the exacting standards of modern defense and aerospace applications—where signal integrity, weight, and integration flexibility are mission-critical.
By leveraging the design freedom of additive manufacturing, we produce complex, high-frequency components such as waveguides, antennas, and housings with integrated features that reduce assembly steps, improve performance, and enable compact system architectures.
Why choose Oerlikon AM as your partner?
The Oerlikon AM Team includes specialists with strong backgrounds in aerospace and defense. With them we provide:
- We have AS9100 and ISO9110, are ITAR registered, and maintain an FFL for manufacturing.
- We offer a full spectrum AM capabilities for quality control and traceability, and affordability, with powder atomization, R&D, and production all delivered in-house
- Aerospace and Defense specific applications engineering with focus on areas like generative design/lightweighting, highly customized parts, weld elimination, reverse engineering and replacement of obsolete parts
- Support for material and component qualification
- Collaboration Opportunities: Material development, data set/ design allowables generation, R&D, application engineering, series production and prototypes