Maritime Defense Systems

Application-ready solutions engineered for heavy-duty maritime power.

Faber Navalis

Produce full-scale hull structures in a single, uninterrupted print.

Faber Navalis enables true one-piece hull production with a build capacity of up to 12 meters in length and 4 meters in width.

This eliminates segmentation, assembly, and alignment steps, unlocking new design freedom while significantly reducing structural complexity and downstream labor.

Flexcube Maritime

Purpose built. Proven. Ready to produce.

The Flexcube Maritime is CEAD’s application-ready solution for high-performance, industrial and defense-grade USV hulls.

Optimized build-volume-to-cell ratio enables manufacturing of vessels up to 7.2 m (23 ft) long with beams up to 1,950 mm (76 in).

Faber Navalis

Maximize build size

Print true hull beams up to 12m in length and 4 meters in width.

Automated production

Ensures light-out manufacturing for complex hulls and deck shapes.

Superior performance

Produces lighter, tougher, and maintenance-free hulls that outperform fiberglass and aluminum.

Seamless workflow

Easily design and prepare hull designs, including special features for bulkheads, stringers, and stiffeners.

Proven performance

The Faber Navalis was used to print this 12 meter long vessel. The testing, trialing, and R&D facility, ensures the Faber Navalis meets the stringent demands of the maritime sector.

Faber Navalis: built with purpose

The Faber Navalis is the first application-ready solution engineered for high-performance industrial and defense-grade production of boat hulls, up to 12m in length and 4m in width.

The solution combines specialized and patented CEAD hardware, CEAD HDPro material, dedicated Faber Navalis software workflow and quality control into one closed-loop production system: designed to ensure reliable, repeatable and high-performance results, completely automated.

One integrated system

  • Patented CEAD Hardware
  • CEAD HDPro material
  • Faber Navalis Workflow Software

1. Unmatched build scale

Produce full-scale hull structures in a single, uninterrupted print.

Faber Navalis enables true one-piece hull production with a build capacity of up to 12 meters in length and 4 meters in width. This eliminates segmentation, assembly, and alignment steps, unlocking new design freedom while significantly reducing structural complexity and downstream labor.

2. Radical production acceleration

Reducing production time by 60-80% with additive manufacturing.

By printing the hull fully in one go, Faber Navalis replaces weeks of coordinated manual labor with a fully automated, lights-out production cycle. Once a hull is completed and removed, the system is immediately ready for the next build, maximizing uptime, throughput, and return on investment.

3. Superior performance

Lighter, stronger, and built for long-term durability.

The advanced composite material used with Faber Navalis is approximately 10% lighter than comparable fiberglass solutions while offering significantly higher durability than standard HDPE. The result is reduced vessel weight, improved efficiency, and lower lifetime maintenance costs, without compromising structural integrity. No coatings. No composite waste. Easier recycling.

4. Seamless Digital Manufacturing Workflow

One integrated system: hardware, software, and material.

Faber Navalis is engineered as a fully synchronized ecosystem where machine, software, and material are optimized to work as one. This seamless integration ensures predictable quality, repeatable results, and minimal operational complexity, allowing manufacturers to scale production with confidence and control.

Flexcube Maritime

Pre configured hardware

S25 extruder. High-throughput, lightweight, delivering consistent processing performance for marine-grade materials.

Optimized build-volume-to-cell

Optimized build-volume-to-cell ratio enables manufacturing of vessels up to 7.2 m, delivering large scale capability while remaining highly space-efficient.

Fast installation

Designed for rapid deployment, Flexcube requires minimal installation, enabling maritime and R&D production to be up and running within just a few days.

Dedicated hull software

The application-ready solution is driven by the CEAD Flexcube Maritime workflow, seamlessly integrated into AdaOne slicing software from ADAXIS.

Purpose built.
Proven.
Ready to produce.

The extruder can rotate to a 45-degree angle, moving beyond the traditional 3-axis gantry system, unlocking the ability to print more complex geometries.

Flexcube Maritime

The Flexcube Maritime is CEAD’s application-ready solution for high-performance, industrial and defense-grade boat hulls.

One integrated system

  • Patented CEAD Hardware
  • CEAD HDPro material
  • AdaOne maritime workflow

Dedicated hull software

The application-ready solution is driven by the CEAD Flexcube maritime workflow, developed in collaboration with ADAXIS and seamlessly integrated into AdaOne.

Validated marine materials

For the maritime application-ready solution, HDPro enables the production of durable, lightweight parts with high impact resistance, excellent weldability, and strong UV resistance, ideal for demanding marine environments.

Upgrades

Upgrades Each application requires a different set-up; therefore, we offer multiple upgrades to meet specific client-tailored needs, such as data-logging, milling and an automatic toolchanger.

Ready for Heavy-Duty Boats

Over the past year, we have partnered with industry leaders to bring large-scale additive manufacturing to real-world maritime applications, proven at sea, not in theory.

  • A 12-meter interceptor / patrol craft for the Royal Dutch Navy, showcasing the technology’s performance under the most demanding operational conditions.
  • Commercial fishing boats and work vessels, engineered for durability, efficiency, and rapid production.
  • Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), pushing the boundaries of autonomy, robustness, and reliability.
  • A growing fleet of real-world boats, including interception vessels, survey boats, landing craft, and commercial maritime platforms.

This is heavy-duty boat manufacturing, industrialized, automated, and ready for scale.

Bring automated large-format hull manufacturing into your production line

Faber Navalis combines patented CEAD hardware, HDPro performance material, dedicated AdaOne software, and built-in quality control into one closed-loop system, engineered for reliable, repeatable, lights-out 3D printing of structurally reinforced boat hulls up to 4m beam.

Questions? Reach out to our maritime specialists or download the brochure directly to see the full configuration, key features, and a validated fishing-boat use case from print to finished hull.

Explore the specs, workflow, and validated HDPro performance.

Where innovation meets the water

Real-world validation

CEAD has is continually testing the entire closed-loop system, from hardware to software to material (HDPro), under heavy-duty production scenarios with the aim to achieve a recyclable, zero waste manufacturing process.

Proven results

Our team has successfully printed several boats and boat hulls, validating the reliability, repeatability, and structural integrity required for industrial and defence applications.

Accelerated adoption

New users and production partners gain direct access to proven workflows, training, and expertise developed our extensive operational experience, ensuring a fast track to successful 3D printing of your own vessels.