Rapid Fusion Targets €1M Italian Expansion Through Exclusive Aivox Partnership

Rapid Fusion, an Exeter-based large-format additive manufacturing company, is targeting a €1 million expansion after signing an exclusive agreement with Aivox, an Italian engineering and innovation consultancy, to enter the Italian market. The deal focuses on customers in architecture, fashion, medtech, and Northern Italy's naval sector.

The British manufacturer already supplies equipment to customers in Australia, Dubai, Greece, and the United States, while discussions with several potential customers in Italy have reached an advanced stage.

Exclusive Partnership with Aivox

Under the agreement, the Milan-based consultancy will use, market, and integrate the Exeter company's LFAM platforms into custom manufacturing systems for Italian clients. These include Zeus, Apollo, Medusa, and Cerberus — a containerized unit intended for remote locations.

Zeus is now being shipped to Monza, where it will be installed on rails at Aivox's dedicated lab for live demonstrations, customer trials, and product development work tied to projects already being carried out by its 15-person engineering team.

Italian Market Opportunity

Jake Hand, founder and CEO of Rapid Fusion, said: "This is a very exciting moment for our business and takes us into a new European territory that is on the verge of really embracing large format additive manufacturing and all the speed, quality and design flexibility it gives you. Having Aivox on board is a massive coup. It is one of Italy's leading innovation consultancies and a company that thrives on delivering new solutions to real-world engineering problems."

Hand also pointed to the Monza facility as an important part of the agreement. "The facility in Monza also has an amazing development lab that acts as a prototyping/new product introduction nerve centre for clients. This is a fantastic environment to initially house Zeus and our other solutions as the relationship develops."

Talks began last year when Aivox CEOs Matteo Lomaglio and Francesco Perego opened discussions on custom LFAM systems based on Rapid Fusion's large-format platforms.