Sintavia, LLC, the world's first all-digital aerospace components manufacturer, today announced its largest facility and equipment expansion since 2019. The $25 million investment includes additional space advanced manufacturing, large format printers, large format post-processing equipment and component testing equipment. It is expected that with this investment, Sintavia will be able to meet demand for the programs it supports across the U.S. Department of Defense by the end of this decade.

“Looking ahead to the next few years, it is clear to us that we need to make the investments today that will sustain our customers’ demand tomorrow,” said Brian Neff, founder and CEO of Sintavia. “As the world’s first truly fully digital aerospace component supplier, Sintavia is uniquely positioned to push the limits of what is possible in terms of designing and manufacturing next-generation aerospace components along a single, full-digitization line. But to do this, you first need to have the right facilities, hardware and software in place. That’s what we’re doing today in support of our customers and their critical programs.”

A key focus of the new expansion will be the continued design and development of high-performance thermodynamic components, especially aerospace heat exchangers. Sintavia heat exchangers, which are enabled using additively designed triple-periodic minimum surface structures, demonstrate improved heat rejection at comparative flow rates when evaluated against traditional versions. Additionally, the manufacturing robustness of a fully digital screw results in production yields approaching 100%, higher multiples than the manufacturing yields typically experienced by traditional heat exchanger manufacturers.

As part of the expansion, Sintavia signed a long-term lease for an additional 25,000 ft2 manufacturing space adjacent to its current headquarters, which will be used for printing, post-processing and materials testing. New equipment included in the expansion includes Sintavia's second SLM NXG XII 600, a third AMCM M4K-4, a second computed tomography scanner (450 kV), a second large air oven, a flow test machine and cold, a shock and vibration table, pressure cycle testing equipment, acoustic testing equipment, several additional 5-axis CNC machines, various additional fatigue equipment, and several additional polishing machines. As announced last October, Sintavia is also the North American launch customer for the AMCM M8K-K, the world's largest industrially viable laser powder bed fusion printer with an impressive 38 ft 3 cubic displacement .

The expansion is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2024.

Source:businesswire.com