Rolls-Royce and Materials Solutions collaborate on the serial production of civil aerospace components
January 23, 2025

It has been announced that Rolls-Royce, Derby, UK, and Materials Solutions – a Siemens Energy Business, based in Worcester, UK, have officially signed a collaboration agreement to develop and supply serial production Additive Manufacturing applications for Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace business.
In a LinkedIn post, Quan Lac, Vice President Siemens Energy Additive Manufacturing, stated “With over a decade long history of working with Rolls-Royce on AM technology and part development we are proud to be selected now by Rolls-Royce to further complement their journey in AM production.”
“It has been a long-standing ambition of our co-founder Trevor Illston since the very early days of Materials Solutions to supply production AM parts for flight, so it’s with a great deal of pride that today we can say we are supporting critical power solutions for both land (Siemens Energy) and air!,” added Lac.
Materials Solutions was one of the first companies approved by a major aerospace company for the Additive Manufacturing of components in 2009. At that time, Rolls-Royce had approved the company for non-flight and rig components.
“This marks another major milestone on our journey to roll out PBF-LB serial production beyond our Siemens Energy stationary gas turbine components,” Materials Solutions stated in its LinkedIn post.
“Delivering AM components for commercial aviation applications was the North Star when a few visionary founders established Materials Solutions – a Siemens Energy Business almost 20 years ago. Thanks to a fantastic team of dedicated people in Worcester (UK) and our other Siemens Energy Additive Manufacturing locations! And not to forget, to our longest standing, loyal customer Rolls-Royce!,” concluded Materials Solutions.