Built by many: AMEXCI welcomes its second NXG XII 600

ÖREBRO, SWEDEN (12 November 2026) – AMEXCI, the Nordic metal additive manufacturing company, has taken delivery of a second Nikon SLM Solutions NXG XII 600 at its factory in Örebro, Sweden. The large-format laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) system arrived on 11 November 2026 and is dedicated to the aluminium alloy Aheadd® CP1. It doubles AMEXCI’s large-format capacity and answers customer demand for higher volumes and larger components. Installation and site acceptance are taking place in November 2026.

A machine like this is not bought by one person. It is earned by the operators who learned to run twelve lasers at once, the engineers who make each part printable, the technicians who finish, measure and test it, and the colleagues who keep orders, powder and deliveries moving. It is earned by the owners who backed an idea in 2017, by the customers who trusted AMEXCI with their parts, and by the partners at Nikon SLM Solutions.

“People ask me what it takes to scale up a factory. The answer is standing in our hall, and I don’t mean the machines. This one belongs to the whole team. Thank you.” Edvin Resebo, CEO, AMEXCI

AMEXCI started in Karlskoga in 2017 with a question from Nordic industry: can metal 3D printing become real production, and not only prototypes? In 2021 the company opened in Tampere, Finland. In 2023 its materials laboratory was accredited to ISO 17025. At the end of 2024 AMEXCI moved into a purpose-built factory in Örebro, with engineering, printing, heat treatment, machining, inspection and testing on one site. Today more than 100 different parts are in serial production for customers in defence, aerospace, automotive and energy, on seven industrial LPBF systems.

AMEXCI already runs one NXG XII 600 and two SLM 500 systems in serial production. The first NXG XII 600 stays on the series it already runs. The second prints only CP1, which removes material changeovers and keeps the machine producing. Two identical systems under one quality system also give customers a second machine behind each delivery, and a route from qualified prototype to volume production without changing supplier, site or quality system.

Qualified serial capacity for large aluminium parts is scarce in Europe. Customers have depended on castings and forgings with lead times of a year or more, often from suppliers outside the region. The new capacity serves structural components, housings and thermal management parts for defence customers in the air, land, sea and space domains, and is open to aerospace, energy and industrial customers that need aluminium parts in volume.

“Our customers are moving from prototypes to series, and they want that capacity close to home. If large aluminium parts can be made in volume inside the region, supply holds up when it is tested. That is also our contribution to strengthening deterrence and resilience within the European region.” Edvin Resebo, CEO, AMEXCI

• Build envelope: 600 x 600 x 600 mm, for large single-piece parts or many smaller parts in one build. • Lasers: twelve 1 kW lasers working at the same time, with overlapping scan fields across the whole build area. • Optics: zoom optics with a beam diameter of 80 to 160 µm, for fine contours and fast hatching. • Turnaround: bi-directional recoating, 200 °C platform heating and two exchangeable build cylinders shorten the time between builds. • Powder handling: closed and automated, which matters for safe volume production in a reactive aluminium alloy.

Aheadd® CP1 is an aluminium-iron-zirconium alloy that Constellium developed for laser powder bed fusion. It was designed for high build rates and a one-step heat treatment. It combines high thermal and electrical conductivity with good strength, ductility and corrosion resistance, and it anodises well. Parts are faster to produce and simpler to finish than in conventional aluminium alloys for additive manufacturing, which also makes CP1 a good fit for heat exchangers and other thermal management parts.

Do you have large aluminium parts that should move from prototype to series? Tell us about them, or come and see the machines at work in Örebro.

Write to us at info@amexci.com, or contact Edvin Resebo, CEO, directly at edvin.resebo@amexci.com.