Ed Ludlow

Kevin, it's great to have you here on Bloomberg Tech.

You know, in many ways, a simple story, but, you know, it's a big raise.

You can talk about what you need the funding for, but also just explain Vulcan Forms.

Is this more than just you being a factory?

It is indeed.

Vulcan Forms is an advanced metal product manufacturing company.

And what we've done over the course of our years is we've developed the highest power 3D printing additive system in the world.

And then we've coupled that from a supply chain perspective and kind of minimized the distance metal atoms need to travel in order to become a finished product.

The most efficient way to make a product is to make only the product that needs to be made.

And additive manufacturing allows for that.

And so we've centered our technology platform and our manufacturing ecosystem around that technology.

We've developed and innovated in that space to bring the highest powered, most productive platform to the market.

And then we couple that upstream and downstream and consolidate that supply chain, innovate within those process steps, simplify where we can, minimizing process steps,

and then bring massive scale across large market segments.

So, Kevin, this is completely in line with some of the central tenets of this administration's plan across a number of domains, right?

What is your relationship like with the Trump administration, with commerce, right?

Commerce has been a big part of driving some of this activity.

Yeah.

Our general North Star is we're an American advanced manufacturing company, and we're very proud of that.

So we partner with anyone who has interest in advancing exactly that cause.