Divergent unveils Monolith One AM machine, announces Long Beach facility
Divergent Technologies, based in Torrance, California, USA, has announced the development of its Monolith One Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing machine. The company also announced plans to expand its manufacturing operations, with a new 40,000 m² facility in Long Beach, California.
The Monolith One has been designed for continuous, high-throughput production and is compatible with a range of standard engineering alloys, including aluminium, nickel-based alloys, steels and titanium. It has twelve 2 kW lasers and features a build volume of 700 × 700 × 835 mm. The machine has an integrated powder recovery and recirculation system, and its build plates incorporate heating and novel cooling controls capable of reaching 200°C.
The company stated that the Monolith One will not be commercially available for sale or licensing, but has been developed specifically for integration into the company’s Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS).
DAPS is used to manufacture mission-critical metal and multi-material structures for aerospace, defence and automotive applications. Its current customers include Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Atomics, CoAspire, Saab, Triumph Group, Bugatti and McLaren.
Integrating the Monolith One into DAPS is expected to provide greater process control and production efficiency, while supporting a domestic US supply chain, the company added.
“The Monolith One is the first metal 3D printer designed ground-up for scaled production of critical hardware,” stated Lukas Czinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Divergent. “Importantly, its design encompasses the years of operational insights we have earned delivering production structures to the defence and commercial sectors.”
The new machine is the result of twenty-eight months of in-house development led by Brian Erhartic, Chief Technology Officer. “Every feature of Monolith One was engineered to maximise reliability, scalability and control,” added Erhartic. “By starting from a clean sheet, our team has built an Additive Manufacturing solution that expands the overall performance envelope of DAPS.”
Expanding manufacturing capacity in Long Beach
Alongside the machine launch, Divergent announced plans for its second facility. The site will house sixty-four metal Additive Manufacturing machines, scheduled for installation over the next twenty-four months.
The new facility will provide capacity to produce tens of thousands of munition airframes or hundreds of thousands of critical components annually.
At full capacity, Divergent stated its new Long Beach manufacturing campus will support approximately 1,000 direct jobs and create thousands of additional indirect jobs through construction, local suppliers, and supporting businesses.
Founded in 2014, Divergent has expanded alongside Southern California’s advanced manufacturing and aerospace sectors. With the addition of the Long Beach facility, the company’s manufacturing footprint will exceed 51,000 m².
Divergent has raised more than $1 billion since its founding, including a $290 million Series E funding round led by Rochefort Asset Management in 2025, which valued the company at $2.3 billion.
