Quickparts has committed to nearly $6m dollars of investment in its Seattle Aerospace & Defense Center of Excellence and added 12 Stratasys NEO systems across its operations in the United States, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
Quickparts is a global on-demand manufacturing platform that takes engineers and product teams from a single prototype to full-scale production without switching suppliers.
The deployment modernises the company´s production fleet across all four sites.
The investment is aimed at America´s highest-stakes production programmes: the national security space architecture now being built at record pace, and defence programmes where a supplier´s ability to deliver on schedule is treated as a strategic asset in its own right. These programmes rarely select a manufacturing partner on price alone. As space and defence budgets scale, the manufacturing base underneath them has to scale faster, and Quickparts is investing accordingly.
Avi Reichental, CEO of Quickparts, said: “Reshoring and industrial resilience are usually discussed as policy. We're treating them as a balance-sheet decision. Anyone can buy the same machine we just bought. What they can´t buy quickly is a qualified capability delivering to the same standard across four countries, at a scale that took us years to build. That´s the difference between renting machine time and owning a position in this market that´s genuinely hard to take away, and it´s the business we’ve built.”
Quickparts runs production through both its own in-house facilities and a certified network of manufacturing partners across North America, Europe, and Asia. The model is designed to allow the company to scale quickly, strategically source work, and compete on cost and speed for the majority of what it builds.
Space, defence, and national security programmes are where the company recognised that calculation change. As these sectors scale, the advantage shifts to suppliers that can hold schedule to a launch cadence or production ramp, with direct process control and full chain-of-custody on every part. At this level, those are not competitive advantages; they are requirements. This deliberate investment in owned capacity positions Quickparts to deliver as these programmes scale.
The new systems increase Quickparts´ large-format throughput by 40% and retire earlier-generation machines, standardising production across the US and Europe. A part qualified in Seattle can be built to an identical standard in France, Italy, or the UK, giving customers a hedge against tariffs, export control shifts, and regional disruption, without requalifying a new supplier each time conditions change. It reflects a consistent strategy: as space and defence budgets scale, the manufacturing base underneath them must scale faster, not alongside and not after.
The same production discipline also serves specialty and performance programmes in Europe, including motorsport aerodynamics and high-end vehicles, where a fixed calendar leaves no room for a missed date. These remain a core part of Quickparts´ business, even as space and national security programmes now anchor the investment priorities.