Velo3D last week officially opened its Livermore Production Campus, Forge 1, which it called one of North America's largest metal additive manufacturing facilities. The nearly 289,000-square-foot campus responds to demand for advanced manufacturing capabilities and expands Velo3D's ability to help customers move programs from qualification into production.
Forge 1 was built to help rapidly scale production of components while strengthening resilient domestic supply chains. As demand grows across aerospace, defense, energy and other strategic industries, manufacturers require partners capable of moving qualified applications into repeatable production at scale. Forge 1 significantly expands that capability.
Velo3D is positioned to support this mission as the only U.S.-founded and U.S.-based OEM in the large-format laser powder bed fusion market whose hardware is manufactured in the United States, whose software is developed in the United States and whose systems are deployed across the United States, allied nations, and trusted international partners.
The facility complements Velo3D's Fremont headquarters, which will remain the company's center for research and development, applications engineering, process development, customer collaboration and qualification. Together, the two campuses create an integrated ecosystem that accelerates the path from concept to production.
Forge 1 includes approximately 270,000 square feet of production space with infrastructure designed to support more than 40 large-format metal additive manufacturing systems, with capacity to expand beyond 100 systems over time. Combined with its Fremont headquarters, Velo3D expects to operate up to 125 systems across both campuses, creating one of North America's largest integrated metal additive manufacturing environments.
The campus supports machine assembly, production-scale printing, post-processing, inspection, quality assurance and customer acceptance, enabling Velo3D to manufacture both its additive manufacturing systems and qualified production parts under one roof. This vertically integrated approach reduces time to production, increases manufacturing flexibility and provides customers with a scalable path from development to full-rate production.
Forge 1 will begin operations in phases as systems are installed and qualified, with capacity increasing over time to support future customer demand. Together, Velo3D's Fremont headquarters and Forge 1 provide an integrated platform that enables manufacturers to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing while strengthening domestic production capabilities for the industries most critical to America's future.
