Joining ATI employees and local and community leaders for the commissioning of the new ATI Additive Manufacturing Products facility in Margate, Florida, are (center) ATI President and CEO Kim Fields and ATI Additive Manufacturing Products General Manager Joe Thompson, as ATI CFO Don Newman and ATI Additive Manufacturing Products Plant Manager Doug Hedges look on. (PRNewsfoto/Allegheny Technologies)
The facility offers capabilities for design, printing, heat treating, machining, and inspection. .
MARGATE, Fla.—ATI Inc. recently commissioned its Additive Manufacturing Products facility, bringing on-line what it called “the most advanced large-format, metal additive manufacturing capabilities in the industry.” The vertically integrated greenfield build, described by ATI as a “world-class facility,” includes design, printing, heat treating, machining, and inspection capabilities under one roof, the company said in a release.
ATI is a producer of high-performance materials and products for the global aerospace and defense markets and critical applications in electronics, medical, and specialty energy. The company commemorated the grand opening of its new facility with a ceremony attended by customers, community supporters, and industry leaders.
“Layer by layer, additive manufacturing gives us the ability to produce high-performance, highly complex components for our customers—faster, with less waste,” said ATI President and CEO Kimberly A. Fields, in a statement released by ATI.
The new operations, built upon nearly a decade of additive manufacturing expertise, are reportedly capable of printing “the tallest parts in the western world”—up to 1.5 meters—in geometries previously not possible.
“ATI is a metallurgical leader, developing new alloy powder materials specifically for additive manufacturing,” Fields continued. “In this new facility, we’ve brought our materials science and forging expertise together with additive manufacturing production acumen, delivering high-quality production at scale. From design to finished product, we’ve formed a powerhouse that solves our customers’ most difficult challenges for the most demanding markets—aerospace, defense, and space.”
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. (BPMI) awarded ATI its first contract to be produced at the new facility. The contract calls for ATI’s production of highly engineered parts in support of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
Along with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, grand opening attendees toured the 132,000-square-foot facility to see the advanced manufacturing operations in action, including laser powder bed fusion printing. Additive Manufacturing Products has implemented a comprehensive quality system that meets the standards of both ISO 9001 and AS9100D. The investment, announced in late 2023, is included in the company’s existing capital expenditure guidance, the release stated.
“We’re solving the world’s most difficult challenges through materials science,” ATI said in the release. “We partner with our customers to deliver extraordinary materials that enable their greatest achievements: Their products fly higher and faster, burn hotter, dive deeper, stand stronger, and last longer.”