Damen Shipyards plans to ‘print’ a ship to speed up production

Damen to 3D print a workboat

Damen Compact Crafts (DCCr), part of the Damen Shipyards Group, and high-tech company CEAD are launching a collaboration to develop a 3D-printed workboat, exploring the potential of large-format 3D printing in shipbuilding. The project will take place at CEAD’s Maritime Application Center (MAC) in Delft in The Netherlands.  Damen said it aims to investigate how …

A UMaine Engineer's Vision of a Factory Staffed With Robots Will Soon Be a Reality

By Charlie PikeFrom our May 2025 issue On the University of Maine campus, a 50,000-square-foot factory is in the works where massive robotic arms, supervised by drones, will assemble 3D-printed houses, boats, and more. It sounds like something out of science fiction. But Habib Dagher believes the era of fully automated factories is here. Since founding UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, in 1996, Dagher and his colleagues have us…

Damen Shipyards plans to ‘print’ a ship to speed up production

Pioneering 3D printer project being developed with tech company CEAD

HDPE Workboat Hull 3D Printed by Damen and CEAD

Damen Compact Crafts (DCCr), a division of the Dutch shipbuilding company Damen Shipyards Group, has partnered with CEAD, a developer of large-format additive manufacturing solutions, to build a 3D printed high-density polyethylene (HDPE) Workboat. The joint initiative will be carried out at CEAD’s Maritime Application Center (MAC) in Delft. This project brings together maritime design […]