Roboze raises funds for composites industrial 3D printing platforms

Roboze (Houston, Texas, U.S.), known for its industrial 3D printing of high-performance polymers and composites for the aerospace, transportation, energy and medical industries, has announced successful company investment by a group of international investors, including Nova Capital (holding company of financial investments headed by Paolo Merloni, executive chairman of Ariston), Lagfin (Campari Group Holding), Andrea Guerra (former CEO of Luxottica, now CEO of LVMH Hospitality Excellence), Luigi De Vecchi (chairman EMEA at Citi), Roberto Ferraresi (CEO of The Equity Club), Luca Giacometti (CEO of Galileo SPAC), Denis Faccioli (CEO of Tecres SPA) and others.

The group joins the existing pool of investors, including Alfredo Altavilla (president of Ita Airways), Boris Collardi (former CEO of Julius Baer), Diego Piacentini (former senior VP of Amazon), Federico Faggin (inventor of the microprocessor) and Equiter SPA (investment fund held by Intesa San Paolo and Compagnia di San Paolo).

“This further fundraising will accelerate our momentum in the U.S. and will enhance our investments in research and development [R&D]. Specifically, the funding will assist in the creation of new super material in our Italian R&D center, where we are building a new chemistry laboratory,” says Alessio Lorusso, founder and CEO of Roboze. “We are honored to have a group of investors of this caliber, who strongly believe in the vision of Roboze and in the change of production paradigm that our technology is enabling by replacing metals and producing parts without wasting raw materials.”

Founded in 2015, Roboze specializes in metal replacement 3D printing. Its patented, ultra-precise 3D printing technologies — Argo 1000, Argo 500 and Roboze One + 400 Xtreme — are equipped with a heated chamber, enabling the rapid production of end-use parts made from composites such as polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK with high accuracy and repeatability.

Moreover, Roboze says its platforms create a circular and sustainable production model, reducing transport and related CO₂ emissions, delivering parts just in time and on demand and avoiding unnecessary waste. Roboze currently works with GE Aviation (Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), Bosch (Gerlingen, Germany), Airbus (Toulouse, France) and other global organizations across aeronautics, space, energy/sustainable energy, medical, manufacturing and more to design and create end-use parts.

Roboze is currently working with industrial manufacturing giant, Siemens Energy (Munich, Germany), to create on-demand parts manufacturing and sustainable warehousing.

“We think additive manufacturing is playing a key role in digitalization and cost out in the energy sector. At Siemens Energy we evaluated many companies and found that Roboze technology for high-temperature polymers has met our engineering qualification and expectations. As a result, we acquired our first machine and look forward to expanding our relationship with Roboze,” says Andrew Bridges, service frame owner at Siemens Energy.

According to the company, 2021 was also year of momentous growth. The organization’s global team now exceeds 100 people, and the company is implementing an aggressive hiring plan in 2022 across the U.S., Italy and Germany with plans to hire 60 “super experts” within the next 12-18 months. Thirty of those hires will be in the U.S., specialized in materials science, chemistry, business development, aerospace, medical devices, field and applications engineering.