Customer success story
For AML3D, the opportunity is clear: help customers move beyond casting constraints and produce large, high-quality metal parts with a welding-based additive manufacturing process.
Valves, propellers, pipe sections and pump housings have traditionally meant foundries, patterns, long lead times and the quality risks that can come with large cast components. AML3D helps customers take a different path — using Wire-arc Additive Manufacturing (WAM) to build large metal parts layer by layer, from wire, arc and a digital model.
For anyone in welding or fabrication, the process is immediately familiar. At its heart, WAM is GMAW. The difference is the job: instead of joining two pieces of metal, the process builds the part itself.
That simple shift changes everything. The weld bead becomes the build material. The shielding gas becomes part of the controlled production environment for every millimetre of the component. For AML3D, quality is built through disciplined control of every input.
“Quality outcomes aren't driven by big leaps, but by relentlessly chasing the 1% improvements that compound into excellence.”
— Thoran Pringle, Welding Coordinator and R&D Technical Lead, AML3D
A welding process with a manufacturing mindset
AML3D manufactures the ARCEMY brand of GMAW Directed Energy Deposition (DED) machines and supports customers across defence, oil and gas, and aerospace. The company also prints components in-house, giving it direct production experience as well as machine-building capability.
The customer challenge is practical: lead time and quality. Traditional casting can carry longer waits and lower acceptance thresholds than welding-based production. As casting facilities face rising demand, AML3D sees WAM to bring production closer to the point of need and produce higher-quality parts on site.
The practical appeal is clear: shorter lead times, repairable components, rapid on-site R&D, design flexibility and the potential to reduce weight through higher-quality outcomes.
Coregas’ role in the outcome
Because WAM is a welding-based additive process, shielding gas is not a background consumable. It is present at every layer, around every deposit, throughout the build.
That matters. In a conventional weld, the gas protects the molten pool. In WAM, that same role is multiplied across an entire component. AML3D notes that the right shielding gas mix can help influence grain refinement and the final deposited structure. For an additive part, gas is a performance input — not just a purchasing line item.
Coregas supports AML3D with reliable, high-specification shielding gas supply, customer care and technical support. It is a practical partnership: AML3D brings the advanced manufacturing process, and Coregas helps ensure one of the critical process inputs is consistent, dependable and fit for high-quality production.
Built for sectors that can’t afford guesswork
The customers looking at WAM are not chasing novelty. They are chasing usable parts, faster routes to production, and dependable outcomes in demanding environments — from defence programs to energy assets and aerospace applications.
For manufacturing teams, this is where WAM gets interesting. It combines a known welding platform with digital control, additive freedom and practical shop-floor relevance. The result is a technology that feels advanced without being abstract.
It also points to a broader shift in manufacturing supply chains. AML3D sees ARCEMY units supporting sectors across the globe, helping bring complex metal production closer to where parts are needed.
The bottom line
This is a customer success story built on practical outcomes: AML3D is helping manufacturers rethink how large metal parts are produced, while Coregas provides the targeted shielding gas support needed to help make each build repeatable, stable and production ready.
In additive manufacturing, every layer counts. Every input matters. And when welding becomes the build, the gas behind the arc becomes part of the outcome.