Modena-based CRP Meccanica, an industry-leader in the field of high-precision CNC machining, offers after-sales support, service, maintenance, and production-phase backup for the California company’s advanced additive manufacturing systems

Modena, Italy, January 18, 2021 – CRP Meccanica—a 50 years’ leader in high-precision CNC machining services with 20 years’ experience in the field of metal additive technologies—has signed an agreement with VELO^3D to be an exclusive distributor for VELO^3D’s advanced Supportfree^TM Metal 3D printing systems in the Italian market. It is also empowered to sell the equipment in some other parts of Europe on an account basis, as well as provide after-sales support, service, maintenance, and production backup to customers throughout the region.

"We are leading the revolution in additive manufacturing technology,” says Cevolini. “VELO^3D’s Sapphire^® AM solution is the next generation in metal laser powder bed fusion. It’s a real game-changer for highly exacting industrial fields like aerospace, oil & gas and motorsports. Our company’s international reputation for expertise will help VELO^3D transform the Italian and European metal 3D printing markets.”

“CRP Meccanica is unique with its more than half a century of experience serving high-tech industries with precision CNC machining and advanced manufacturing processes,” says Benny Buller, founder and CEO of VELO^3D. “Their 20 years working with metal AM technologies have led them to appreciate the significant technological and customer benefits that our Sapphire system represents, so they are an excellent partner for us to support the Italian and greater-European markets.”

“We are ready to embrace this cutting-edge technology, combining it with our expertise in serving the most demanding industrial sectors and delivering extraordinary results,” says Cevolini. “The skills of the CRP companies, combined with VELO^3D’s leading AM systems, will give life to an unprecedented, unique technological point of reference in the world.”

VELO^3D’s unique additive manufacturing capabilities allow for the production of parts that cannot be made via any other technology—including most current AM systems. It alleviates the designer from the constraints of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), meaning that engineers can now get the parts they really need, not just the parts advocated by commodity AM and DfAM practitioners.

Known for enabling the reduction and often elimination of support structures, along with the ability to produce designs with overhangs down to zero degrees, the Sapphire system greatly diminishes the need for extensive secondary processes. This spurs innovation and boosts the performance of such components as shrouded impellers, heat exchangers, and manifolds. VELO^3D’s intelligent, integrated suite of software and hardware greatly improve the workflow—end-to-end—with geometric flexibility, responsiveness and agility, accuracy, traceable part quality, decreased production times and reduced cost of parts and ownership.

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About CRP Meccanica

Founded in 1970 by Roberto Cevolini and with an entrepreneurial vanguard heritage in motorsport and F1, CRP Meccanica has become the creator of innovative and avant-garde solutions in the field of High-Precision CNC Machining for complex and demanding sectors such as defense, aviation, aerospace, and automotive. It has also built up 20 years’ expertise in the field of metal additive technologies. For further information go to: crpmeccanica.com

About VELO^3D

VELO^3D is transforming the analog supply chain to digital manufacturing. As the creator of the industry’s first SupportFree^TM solution for 3D metal printing, their product suite is an end-to-end digital manufacturing solution for producing metal parts. With VELO3D Flow™ print preparation software, Sapphire^® printer, and Assure™ quality assurance software, manufacturers can accelerate product innovation, become more agile and responsive to market needs, and reduce costs. The company is based in Silicon Valley and is privately funded. For more information go to https://www.velo3d.com/