Doosan Enerbility Expands Metal 3D Printing Business into Shipbuilding Sector

"Continued New Market Development"

Doosan Enerbility is expanding its metal additive manufacturing (AM) business, accumulated in the power generation and defense sectors, into the shipbuilding sector. Metal additive manufacturing, also known as metal 3D printing, is a technology that manufactures metal material parts by stacking metal powder layer by layer at a time.

On the 26th, Doosan Enerbility announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for technology exchange and joint marketing of metal additive manufacturing with Pellagus, a ship and marine parts ordering platform operator headquartered in Singapore. Pellagus is a joint venture (JV) between German shipbuilding and steel company ThyssenKrupp and Norwegian shipping company Wilhelmsen, currently collaborating with more than 80 marine and ship parts metal additive manufacturing producers.

The two companies plan to cooperate on ▲participation in an online platform for ordering metal additive manufacturing parts in the ship and marine sectors ▲joint marketing planning and business development targeting domestic shipbuilders ▲discovering business opportunities through joint marketing in the Singapore aviation, ship, and marine sectors.

At the signing ceremony for a business agreement on metal AM technology exchange and joint marketing held locally in Singapore on the 23rd, Doosan Enerbility's Yongjin Song, Head of Strategic Innovation Division (front row left), Pelagus 3D's Kenlip Ong, CEO (front row right), and other company officials are posing for a commemorative photo.
[Photo by Doosan Enerbility]

Doosan Enerbility will be responsible for design support, production, and quality of metal additive manufacturing parts related to ships and marine. Pellagus will manage the related online platform operation, discovery of parts applying metal additive manufacturing technology, design, and certification.

Song Yong-jin, Head of Strategy and Innovation Division at Doosan Enerbility, said, "Doosan Enerbility has proven its technological capabilities and business feasibility in the metal additive manufacturing business to various customers across the power generation, defense, and aerospace sectors. Through this cooperation, we will expand the metal additive manufacturing business field and pioneer new markets."

Global shipping consulting firm Drewry forecasted that the domestic ship and marine parts market will grow from about 300 billion KRW in 2024 at an average annual rate of over 15%, reaching about 600 billion KRW by 2028.

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