Voxel Innovations Relocates to New, Expanded Facility

Voxel Innovations, an advanced manufacturing company specializing in pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), has relocated to an expanded, newly-constructed facility in Knightdale, North Carolina. 

The company says the move stems from growing demand for its PECM technology across its customers’ industries, including the aerospace, medical device, defense and energy industries. Voxel aims to constantly improve its PECM process’s capabilities and bandwidth, and will utilize this expansion to upgrade its production capabilities as well as its laboratory, testing equipment and metrology equipment. 

PECM is a unique nonthermal, noncontact material removal method utilizing electrochemistry which is capable of creating small features and superfinished surfaces on metallic parts with high repeatability. PECM is best utilized to produce high-volume, tight-tolerance metal components for critical applications, including turbine blades, nitinol bone fixtures and microchannel heat exchangers. The lack of heat or contact enables the process to disregard material hardness and minimize any wear on the tooling, enabling high-volume machining of exotic alloys. 

Voxel Innovations was founded in 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina, by its current CEO, Daniel Herrington. Voxel initially developed PECM as a response to engineers struggling to manufacture next-generation critical components for challenging environments that require tough-to-machine materials such as Inconel and refractory metal alloys. The company has continuously improved the precision capabilities of its process, discovered proprietary methods to machine new materials and developed fully automated PECM production lines, machining millions of high-quality parts annually and seeks to continue this trend in its new facilities. 

“Voxel’s growth into our new facility is an important milestone in our growth, allowing us to expand our capacity for both existing and new customers,” Herrington says. “We are excited for this next chapter in Voxel’s story while also helping to grow the advanced manufacturing industry in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.”