WAAM3D CEO Filomeno Martina has stepped down after six years within the position.
He has additionally vacated his place of the board as a part of a ‘wholly private choice’ that was ‘not made frivolously.’ Confirming his choice to depart on LinkedIn, Martina stated his time with WAAM3D has been ‘a most rewarding and vital expertise.’
WAAM3D was integrated in 2018 after a number of years of analysis and improvement work at Cranfield College. Martina accomplished his grasp’s at Cranfield round 15 years in the past, and went on to assist lay the groundwork for what would turn into WAAM3D within the interim years. In 2019, the corporate raised a sequence A funding spherical, shifting into a brand new headquarters the next yr and rising to a workforce of 25 workers by 2021.
By 2022, the corporate was able to launch its RoboWAAM metallic 3D printing platform at TCT 3Sixty, with its wire arc additive manufacturing management software program following in 2023 and the compact MiniWAAM metallic 3D printer and RoboWAAM XP Chilly-Wire Gasoline Metallic Arc system in 2024. WAAM3D has additionally contributed to a 22.5 million GBP plane touchdown gear analysis venture lately, whereas it was introduced Revolutionary House Provider have been to make use of its WAAM3D 3D printing expertise for propellant tanks final August.
In his LinkedIn assertion, Martina stated: “I’m extremely happy with what now we have completed collectively. We have now grown from a small educational workforce right into a business organisation that has contributed considerably to our discipline. We have now at all times moved ahead unscathed, more durable than nails, even when proper after our first funding in December 2019, c-19 hit the entire world. Irrespective, we left Cranfield’s campus, arrange store in Milton Keynes, and constructed the workforce and tradition from scratch. This was an unbelievable achievement.
“To our clients, particularly those that have been with us since our early Cranfield days, I need to say a heartfelt thanks. Your religion in our expertise, your willingness to collaborate, and your steady assist have been instrumental in shaping WAAM3D’s trajectory. It has been a privilege to serve you, and I’m excited to see how WAAM3D, of which I’ll stay a shareholder, will proceed to fulfill your wants and exceed your expectations within the years to return.
“There have been tens of peaks and 1000’s of valleys. Thanks all for the belief and shared perception in what now we have constructed collectively. All the pieces is impermanent, however I’ll at all times arise for the work now we have performed collectively; the recollections of our journey will stick with me eternally.”
Chee Weng Lee, a member of WAAM3D’s BoD, Managing Director of Addept3D & Vice President of Superior Manufacturing at Accuron, has been named interim CEO of WAAM3D.
