On-demand manufacturing platform Quickparts today announced a second major capacity investment in 18 months, bringing its total commitment to its Seattle Aerospace & Defense Center of Excellence to nearly $6 million and adding 12 Stratasys NEO systems across its operations in the U.S., France, Italy and the U.K.
The deployment modernizes the company’s production fleet across all four sites, the latest in a series of milestones over the past year that included the November 2025 Seattle expansion and the February 2026 launch of its DuraKor and ThermaKor high-performance materials.
The capital is aimed at America’s highest-stakes production programs: the national security space architecture now being built at record pace, and defense programs where a supplier’s ability to deliver on schedule is treated as a strategic asset in its own right. These programs rarely select a manufacturing partner on price alone. As space and defense budgets scale, the manufacturing base underneath them has to scale faster.
“Reshoring and industrial resilience are usually discussed as policy. We're treating them as a balance-sheet decision,” said Avi Reichental, CEO of Quickparts. “Anyone can buy the same machine we just bought. What they can’t buy quickly is a qualified capability delivering to the same standard across four countries, at a scale that took us years to build. That’s the difference between renting machine time and owning a position in this market that’s genuinely hard to take away, and it’s the business we’ve built.”
Quickparts runs production through both its own in-house facilities and a certified network of manufacturing partners across North America, Europe and Asia. The model is designed to let the company scale quickly, strategically source work, and compete on cost and speed for most of what it builds.
Space, defense, and national security programs are where the company recognized that calculation change. As these sectors scale, the advantage shifts to suppliers that can hold schedule to a launch cadence or production ramp, with direct process control and full chain of custody on every part. At this level, those are not competitive advantages; they are requirements.
“Quickparts' investment reflects the growing role large-format additive manufacturing now plays in critical applications across aerospace, defense, and space,” said Dr. Yoav Zeif, CEO of Stratasys.
The new systems increase the company's large-format throughput by 40 percent and retire earlier-generation machines, standardizing production across the U.S. and Europe. A part qualified in Seattle can be built to an identical standard in France, Italy or the U.K., giving customers a hedge against tariffs, export control shifts, and regional disruption, without requalifying a new supplier each time conditions change, according to the company.
Deployment began in August 2026 and is scheduled to be completed across all sites by October.
A supplier’s ability to deliver on schedule is treated as a strategic asset in the defense industry.Quickparts
