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Howco Additive is featured in “An AM Business Within a Business,” highlighting our 7,500-sq-ft Houston facility, Nikon SLM systems, and work with C103 niobium—including a three-year exclusivity to develop print parameters—serving applications from oil and gas to hypersonics and commercial space.

Newsroom feature covering a joint project where LSU engineering students, ExxonMobil, Nikon SLM Solutions, and Howco Additive partnered to re-engineer a critical oil-and-gas component using laser powder bed fusion—demonstrating part consolidation, improved flow performance, and faster development from concept to tested hardware.

Building on a shared commitment to production-grade metal AM, Nikon SLM Solutions and Howco Metals Management (Howco Additive) outline a collaboration to advance aerospace applications—expanding L-PBF capacity in Houston, accelerating qualification of flight-critical alloys, and supporting U.S. programs with scalable, repeatable processes.