India has commissioned the country’s largest industrial 3D printer for space development based on electron beam additive manufacturing, developed by Rosatom.
Rosatom has successfully supplied the RusBeam 2800 industrial 3D printer, which will help drastically shorten lead times for large aerospace components while ensuring material integrity for extreme space conditions, to India. The equipment is based on Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing technology (EBAM). The machine will be used to manufacture metal parts for India’s aerospace industry.
EBAM technology is a high-performance metal 3D printing method in which a powerful electron beam, operating inside a vacuum chamber, melts metal wire layer by layer to form large-scale parts. Thanks to the vacuum environment, the technology is ideally suited for processing reactive and refractory alloys, making it indispensable in the aerospace industry, shipbuilding, and the production of components for nuclear energy.
“Rosatom is making a pivotal contribution to the strategic technological partnership between Russia and India. Following the December 2025 summit of our leaders, Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi, their joint statement underscored the prospects of cooperation in peaceful nuclear energy and space, including plans to deepen cooperation on non-energy nuclear applications and new non-nuclear products. We won this tender offering not only cutting-edge Russian hardware but also our technological expertise, materials, and service, all tailored to the customer’s requirements. We are already in discussions with our Indian partners regarding further supplies, joint R&D in additive technologies, as well as potential localisation of equipment manufacturing in India,” noted Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev.
The RusBeam 2800 is India’s largest vacuum electron-beam 3D printer. Custom-built for the Indian client with Rosatom’s software, it can produce parts up to 2.8 metres tall and weighing four tonnes. Print speed reaches 50 mm/s – a 50 kg part takes just five hours. The printer works with titanium, nickel, cobalt-chrome alloys and superalloys. For Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) this means drastically shorter lead times for large aerospace components while ensuring material integrity for extreme space conditions, supporting deep-space missions like Gaganyaan, Bharatiya Antariksh Space Station and Chandrayaan.
Additive manufacturing produces parts impossible to make with traditional methods. It reduces weight, cuts production cycles from months to days, and eliminates tooling, casting or milling. At end-of-life, costs drop up to 90% due to minimal waste – materials are recycled with near-zero loss. Complex parts that once required welding multiple elements are now grown as single pieces, with metal utilisation approaching 90%.
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Although the printer itself is installed in India, its appearance has direct implications for the whole world. For the global aerospace industry, this case demonstrates that Russian EBAM technologies have confirmed industrial maturity and are ready for export, creating an alternative to traditional equipment suppliers.
Ghana is also making strides in its space sector: in 2017, the country launched its first satellite, GhanaSat 1, and is now focused on building the industry’s foundation – approving a national space policy, establishing its own space agency, and training engineering talent. Meanwhile, the country is seeing educational projects that use 3D printing, along with a broader discussion about the potential of additive technologies to accelerate industrialisation.
