Vandad Sanat launches DED P240-A, an Iran-built directed-energy-deposition metal 3D printer

Vandad Sanat, an Iranian manufacturer, has launched the DED P240-A, a directed energy deposition metal 3D printer built domestically for industrial users. The company positions the system as the first indigenously developed DED platform in the Middle East, aimed at multi-industry metal additive manufacturing applications. No pricing, build volume, or material specifications have been disclosed alongside the launch. Vandad Sanat does not currently appear in AMPulse's company index, an absence that reflects incomplete coverage of regional entrants rather than evidence of a small or new operation.

DED and WAAM processes have found clearer commercial footing in large-format metal repair and near-net-shape production outside the powder-bed-fusion mainstream, and a domestically built platform signals an attempt to establish that capability inside Iran rather than import it. Directed energy deposition is comparatively less dependent on the laser and powder supply chains that constrain laser powder bed fusion, which may explain why it is the process a sanctions-isolated manufacturer chose to develop first. Vandad Sanat also has no patent linkage in AMPulse's index, a gap that reflects missing coverage rather than an absence of underlying IP, so the technical lineage of the P240-A's deposition and control system remains unverified from public records.

The signal to watch is whether the P240-A moves beyond a launch announcement into named industrial deployments, the marker that typically separates a genuine regional DED entrant from a one-off demonstration.