Voxel's Relocation Milestone & Our Journey So Far
See more details on our newest relocation in our formal press release below.
We're excited to announce that we have officially relocated our business headquarters to our newly-constructed facilities in Knightdale, North Carolina, approximately quadrupling our floor space. In less than ten short years, Voxel has grown from a small garage to a volume production facility, all within the triangle region of North Carolina. This article will share the what, where and why of this milestone in Voxel's progress towards becoming a leader in electrochemical machining technology, and show Voxel's journey so far since its inception in 2015.
What: Voxel has moved its business operations from Raleigh, North Carolina to a brand-new facility less than ten miles away in Knightdale, North Carolina. In doing so, we have approximately quadrupled our current floor space.
Where: The new facility is located in Knightdale, North Carolina, within the Merritt Midway Business Park, next to Knightdale's rapidly-growing East Wake submarket.
Voxel's new address is 520 Hinton Pond Rd, STE 128, Knightdale NC 27545.
Why: Demand is growing for Voxel's unique pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM) technology across critical industries, including the aerospace, defense, medical device and energy industries, and Voxel plans to utilize this larger space to expand equipment, employees, R&D and production capabilities to best serve the company’s current and future customers.
Voxel will also utilize this expansion to upgrade its R&D capabilities—such as Voxel’s in-house laboratory, tool room capabilities, and metrology lab, in an effort to improve PECM’s cost efficiency, surface finishing capabilities, repeatability and scalability. Voxel also seeks to expand the list of materials compatible with PECM with new in-house research, as it did previously with certain refractory metals.
Voxel’s current production bandwidth will also dramatically increase—expanding production volumes on current applications with new, faster equipment, as well as building new production equipment for high-volume applications across critical industries, including aerospace, medical device, defense and energy.
To learn more about the scalability of Voxel's technology in high-volume production environments, consider reading our collaborative content with Beckhoff, as well as with KUKA Robotics.
Voxel is excited to continue to expand to better serve its current customers, entice new customers, and continue its journey towards becoming a global leader in electrochemical machining technology with Voxel’s unique pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM) technology.
For additional information on our technology, capabilities, and goals, view our education portal.
Voxel's Journey
Voxel began as an idea. When Daniel Herrington was working for ARPA-E as a tech-to-market consultant for up-and-coming energy companies, he realized there was a significant lack of manufacturers outside of Europe focusing on electrochemical machining (ECM) manufacturing technology. Technology that, according to Herrington, was not being used to its full potential. Although the technology was first conceptualized in the sixties, ECM was largely limited to niche applications for certain turbine components. Herrington decided to form his own company that could not only advance the technology's capabilities and scalability, but bring it to new applications within aerospace and energy, as well as new medical device and defense components.
Herrington built his own ECM machine from scratch in a small garage space, building the equipment outwards until there was no room remaining. As expected, this wasn’t enough to meet demand for the unique technology.
Voxel secured additional funding and was able to expand to its second, larger facility in Raleigh, where it would stay for 6 years.
In this expanded facility space, Voxel rapidly improved its capabilities, bandwidth, and number of employees, growing from a small handful of engineers in 2017 to 20 dedicated employees by 2024. The company took on a wide range of professionals ranging from engineers from the additive, automotive, aerospace and defense industries, manufacturing technicians, as well as other professionals specializing in quality assurance, corrosion science, marketing, sales, and human resources.
In this facility, Voxel proved out its process at production scales, manufacturing parts in volumes from thousands to millions of parts per year. Another key milestone during this time was achieving ISO certification for aerospace and medical device manufacturers; Voxel's quality management system (QMS) complies with AS9100D (which includes ISO 9001:2015 standards) as well as ISO 13485:2016 standards. You can view the documents here.
To facilitate this incredible progress, Voxel took on a wide range of professionals ranging from engineers from the additive, automotive, aerospace and defense industries, as well as other professionals specializing in quality assurance, corrosion science, marketing, sales, and human resources.
You can see a short bio on each of our incredible employees here.
Voxel has cultivated a work culture that is built on collaboration and open communication-- both inside and outside the office. Employees enjoy discussing new ideas and projects--from the conference room to the local bowling alley.
Voxel has taken an enormous step forward towards its goal of becoming a global leader and pioneer in electrochemical machining technology with the construction of its brand-new, expanded facilities in Knightdale, North Carolina. Alongside a quadrupled floor space for additional production and R&D equipment, the expanded office space has filled up quickly with new employees, interns, and meeting spaces for the company to facilitate new collaboration and growth.
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