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Arc Impact Acquires Desktop Metal Assets, Relaunching as an AI-Driven Advanced Manufacturing Platform

Arc Impact Acquisition Corporation (Arc Impact) announced it has acquired selected assets of Desktop Metal, Inc. out of Chapter 11 and is relaunching the business as an advanced manufacturing platform that combines binder-jet metal and ceramic additive manufacturing with production-grade polymers and AI-assisted materials R&D to onshore critical U.S. production.

Under new ownership, the company’s mission is restoring American and domestic manufacturing capacity – from defense, automotive, and aerospace parts to high-performance medical and energy components – by combining binder-jet metal and ceramic printing, production-grade polymer platforms, and AI-assisted materials discovery into a unified platform built for speed, cost efficiency, and domestic resiliency.

Arc Impact will focus on programs where domestic, scalable manufacturing is essential to economic competitiveness and national security, including heavy rare-earth-free permanent magnets, sodium-ion solid-state battery components, solid-state transformer parts for AI data centers and grid modernization, and other high-consequence applications.

The acquired portfolio includes Desktop Metal’s binder-jet IP and know-how (covering the Production System™ and X-Series platforms), Adaptive3D’s DuraChain™ elastomers and FreeFoam™ expandable resins, creating a comprehensive stack for end-use parts across metals, ceramics, and elastomeric polymers. The company will deploy these assets in a distributed R&D-as-a-Service network with universities, feeding successful prototypes into centralized, high-throughput manufacturing hubs. “Binder jetting’s throughput and per-part economics unlock true production in metals,” said Rick Lucas, Chief Growth Officer. “Coupled with our ceramic capability – including carbides for industrial, energy and defense markets—and elastomer platforms for medical and industrial applications, we can address programs that conventional methods can’t touch on speed and part complexity.”

www.arcimpact.org


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