Beamit survives insolvency under Rainshow and installs EOS’s newest metal printer

Metal AM service provider Beamit spent over a year rebuilding after the Parma court opened a judicial liquidation of Beamit Spa on June 20, 2025, when the company employed more than 80 people across its Italian sites and its UK subsidiary in Thatcham. Rainshow Industries, a Sicilian company, has acquired Beamit’s Aerospace, Space and Defense business unit, and Beamit’s Fornovo plant installed the first EOS M4 ONYX in the EMEA region, expanding a metal additive manufacturing fleet that already includes four EOS M 290 and four EOS M 400-4 systems.

Rainshow to the rescue

Given the weight of Beamit’s aerospace and space contracts, with clients including Leonardo and the European Space Agency, the court authorized curator Paolo Capretti in July 2025 to keep the Aerospace, Space and Defense business unit running while it found a buyer. Capretti, founder of Studio CDB Parma and previously the curator in the Parmalat and Coop Di Vittorio cases, described the assignment as unusually complex. “The decision to start the provisional exercise at the Fornovo and Rubbiano plants and to keep the Aerospace, Space and Defense business unit running proved to be the right one, even if it came at a heavy personal and professional cost,” he said, adding that the process brought “no shortage of difficult moments and surprises” as he managed a creditor base of more than 160 parties owed over 30 million euros in total.

The sale needed clearance under Italy’s Golden Power procedure, which applies to acquisitions in strategic sectors such as aeronautics, space and defense. With that screening complete, the Fornovo and Rubbiano business unit was passed to Rainshow Industries, which takes over its management in full.

Rainshow Industries CEO Emanuela Bologna, previously a structural engineering researcher at the University of Palermo, framed the deal as a commitment to the people and clients who stayed with Beamit through the liquidation. “We feel a strong responsibility toward the people who work at Beamit and toward the clients who kept trusting Beamit despite the opening of the judicial liquidation,” Bologna said. She described plans to build an integrated industrial platform around the Fornovo and Rubbiano sites, combining advanced additive manufacturing, certified special processes and industrial-scale capacity, as part of a wider strategy to strengthen Italy’s aerospace, space and defense supply chain. Rainshow intends to add two more facilities in the former Fiat plant area in Termini Imerese, Sicily, creating what Bologna called a national hub for additive manufacturing of critical components across every high-technology sector.

Beamit’s UK subsidiary, 3T Additive Manufacturing, was acquired by the Austrian precision engineering group SBO (Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment).

Back to scale

With the ownership question settled, Beamit is already adding capacity. The EOS M4 ONYX succeeds the M 400-4 and carries a build volume of 450 x 450 x 400 millimeters. Its standard configuration uses six 400 W lasers, which EOS says deliver 50% higher throughput and cut part costs by 30% compared to the previous generation, with full service contracts targeting up to 97% operational equipment effectiveness. EOS built the system for large-format serial production in aerospace, space, defense, energy and industrial markets, the same segments where Beamit’s Aerospace, Space and Defense unit just changed hands. A four-laser FLX variant with 1.5 kW beam-shaping lasers follows later in 2026.

Beamit paired the new laser system with a renewed NADCAP accreditation for additive manufacturing, the aerospace industry’s certification for special processes, reinforcing the quality credentials that kept clients such as Leonardo and the European Space Agency on board through the liquidation. The company credited the renewal to “the dedication, expertise and teamwork of colleagues across every department,” calling it proof of “the robustness of our processes and our ability to turn complex requirements into reliable, qualified and customer-focused solutions.”

For Beamit, the machine is a statement of intent: the metal additive manufacturer is back to investing in the largest, most productive systems EOS makes.