Hadrian, a U.S. advanced manufacturer that's building automated factories to serve the aerospace and defence markets, has announced the launch of a new division focused on additive manufacturing (AM).
Hadrian Additive, according to a press release, is designed to deliver ‘scalable, production-ready additive manufacturing’ for the U.S. defence customers and allied partners in an effort to strengthen domestic production for priority defence programs. While no details have been shared of what Hadrian’s AM capacity will consist off in terms of hardware, the company said the new division expands its Opus factory platform with AM systems ‘built for qualification, repeatability, and sustained throughput’. Hadrian’s AM capabilities are expected to come online later this year.
"America's defence industrial base needs additive manufacturing that works in real production, not just in prototypes," said Chris Power, Founder and CEO of Hadrian. "We're building this capacity the same way we build our factories—engineered for qualification, throughput, and speed—so critical programs can scale when it matters most."
The division will be led by Matthew Parker, formerly Director of Engineering at Morf3D, the California AM service provider which was acquired by Nikon and rebranded as Nikon AM Synergy in 2024, where Parker most recently served as COO.
"Additive manufacturing only becomes strategic when it's industrialised," said Parker, Vice President of Additive Manufacturing. "Hadrian Additive is designed as a production system from day one, integrated with our factory stack and capable of scaling as demand grows.”
Hadrian currently operates three advanced manufacturing facilities - two in California and one in Arizona - and is actively developing additional production sites enabled by its proprietary software stack for production autonomy and ‘Factories-as-a-Service’ model.
