MX3D Says Framatome Facility Marks ‘New Era’ for Nuclear WAAM

• French nuclear energy business Framatome has inaugurated a 6,000 m2 additive manufacturing center in Romans-sur-Isère, France.  The facility, which opened on July 2, produces metal components for the primary circuits of French nuclear reactors using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) systems supplied by Amsterdam-based MX3D.  Named the Amiral Bernard-Antoine Morio de l’Isle Additive Manufacturing Center,…

French nuclear energy business Framatome has inaugurated a 6,000 m2 additive manufacturing center in Romans-sur-Isère, France. The facility, which opened on July 2, produces metal components for the primary circuits of French nuclear reactors using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) systems supplied by Amsterdam-based MX3D. Named the Amiral Bernard-Antoine Morio de l’Isle Additive Manufacturing Center, the facility cost €25 million (US$28.6 million) and was built in under a year from groundbreaking to full operational status. It is the first industrial-scale AM facility of its kind in Europe’s nuclear sector. “With the Amiral Bernard-Antoine Morio de l’Isle center fully operational, we have entered a new era for truly large-scale Additive Manufacturing in Nuclear Energy,” said Gijs