AnyShape

AnyShape is a Belgium-based aerospace additive manufacturing company certified to ISO 9001 and EN 9100 (the aerospace quality management system standard), specializing in selective laser melting (SLM) and electron beam melting (EBM) metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) of complex aerospace-grade components for propulsion, structures, and radio frequency applications.

AnyShape's customer portfolio centers on major European aerospace primes: Airbus, Safran (propulsion and aircraft equipment divisions), ArianeGroup (Ariane launch vehicles), and ESA, for whom AnyShape manufactures flight-intent and qualification hardware. Specific product categories include rocket thruster chambers and injector heads — where the geometric freedom of additive manufacturing enables internal cooling channel geometries that would be impossible or prohibitively expensive with conventional subtractive machining — and RF antenna structures and waveguide components, where complex internal geometry optimized for electromagnetic performance can be printed as single monolithic parts rather than assembled from multiple machined pieces.

AnyShape collaborates with ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands on advanced material development, specifically focusing on titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) parameters for space applications, including qualification testing of additively manufactured titanium structures for fracture mechanics, fatigue life, and vacuum thermal cycling performance. This research collaboration reflects the broader European space industry effort to qualify AM processes for flight hardware, reducing costs and lead times versus traditional forging and machining.

Additive manufacturing's principal advantages for space hardware are design freedom (complex internal channels, lattice structures, topology-optimized geometries), reduced part count (consolidating multi-piece assemblies into single prints), and faster iteration cycles for development programs — critical when rocket programs need rapid design changes without retooling. Lead time advantages are particularly significant for components with complex geometries that previously required months of machining.

AnyShape operates in a growing European AM-for-aerospace ecosystem alongside peers like AddUp (France), Elementum 3D (US), and RUAG's AM division (Switzerland). Belgian manufacturing expertise and proximity to ESA's ESTEC facilities position AnyShape well in the European aerospace supply chain.