Fabri, a company co-founded by Steven Davis ’24, Thomas Cole ’91, MBA ’13, and Pieter Coulier, is applying additive manufacturing, software, and vertical integration to investment casting at a 16,000-square-foot plant in Billerica, Massachusetts, according to a Nov. 10, 2026, MIT News report. Fabri says it is producing parts for customers including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Sikorsky Aircraft while moving through qualification for aerospace and defense applications.

Fabri's FoundryOS software designs patterns that are printed in resin and then dipped in ceramic slurry to build molds, an approach Davis says removes early tooling steps. The company reports making parts from aluminum, copper alloys, and stainless steel, mainly for munitions, aviation, and naval uses. It says it can go from design to finished part in as little as a week.

As of the report, Fabri moved production to Billerica in spring 2026 and planned to begin casting nickel superalloys in early 2027 and to build a larger facility in 2027. The report cites American Foundry Society figures on foundry-worker retirements but links them to a broader industry labor bottleneck, not to clinical or safety outcomes.