CHICAGO, Oct. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fast Radius, a digital manufacturing and supply chain company, is working with HellermannTyton, a leader in designing and producing cable management products, to manufacture new wire routing aids for the automotive industry. HellermannTyton uses Fast Radius’ Cloud Manufacturing Platform to produce cable management products allowing their customer, a Tier 1 automotive OEM, to bring a new vehicle to market. The pivot from traditional manufacturing processes to additive manufacturing enables HellermannTyton to save approximately $1MM in project costs and eight weeks of lead time.
“HellermannTyton is committed to deploying advanced technology in service of product development, and this project was of particular importance as our auto customer was working on launching a new vehicle on a swift timeline. Traditional manufacturing methods like injection molding or CNC would have been costly and time intensive, so we turned to Fast Radius for a better method,” said Ethan Fish, Product Designer at HellermannTyton. “Fast Radius’ platform helped us quickly evaluate designs and produce high-quality, industrial-grade parts with additive manufacturing, which saved us two months in development time and allowed us to ramp to full production quickly.”
HellermannTyton was tasked by their automotive customer to make plastic wire routing mounts that guide wires throughout the vehicle’s interior, ensuring that cables are safely secured. Fast Radius’ Cloud Manufacturing Platform allows HellermannTyton to test feasibility and ultimately move to certified production, all within weeks.
“The automotive industry is evolving at a tremendous pace, in large part driven by electrification. OEMs are looking to embrace both new manufacturing technologies and more flexible and resilient supply chains. This is what our Cloud Manufacturing Platform provides," said Lou Rassey, Co-Founder and CEO of Fast Radius. "It is exciting to see customers like HellermannTyton quickly and cost-effectively bring new production-grade parts to market with our platform. Elastic and scalable industrial-grade production is the future, and we’re proud to be partnering with a leader like HellermannTyton.”
As HyllermannTyton looks toward 2022, the company will continue work with Fast Radius to identify opportunities to leverage the Cloud Manufacturing Platform to design, validate, and scale production to increase efficacy of parts, reduce costs, and shorten timelines.
Fast Radius has been reliably serving the automotive industry for many years, and has plans to prioritize software products and services tailored for the electrification of vehicles. HellermannTyton, Aptiv, and Curtiss Motorcycles are just several of many prominent automotive customers who are currently leaning on Fast Radius’ Cloud Manufacturing Platform to design and produce industrial-grade parts.
On July 19, 2021, Fast Radius and ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. (NASDAQ: ENNV), a special purpose acquisition corporation, entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in Fast Radius becoming a public company.
ABOUT FAST RADIUS
Fast Radius, Inc. is a leading cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company. The Cloud Manufacturing Platform™ from Fast Radius is a first-of-its-kind solution that integrates design, production, and fulfillment operations through a common digital infrastructure to make manufacturing easier, more accessible, and more sustainable. Founded in 2017, Fast Radius, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Atlanta, Louisville, and Singapore and micro-factories in Chicago and at the UPS Worldport facility in Louisville, KY. To learn more about Fast Radius and how its digital manufacturing capabilities are helping manufacturers, please visit www.fastradius.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/fast-radius or Twitter @fastradius.
ABOUT HELLERMANNTYTON
HellermannTyton is a global leader in cable management and protection products, identification systems and network connectivity solutions. Its systems and solutions are specified by major manufacturers and contractors in the OEM, data communications, automotive, heavy equipment, renewable energy and related industries. The company’s engineered solutions and innovative products are designed and constructed to meet the strictest quality standards while delivering reliable implementation at the lowest cost. HellermannTyton operates in 39 countries, with North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (www.hellermann.tyton.com).
ABOUT ECP ENVIRONMENTAL GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES CORP.
ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. (NASDAQ: ENNV) is a special purpose acquisition company formed by Energy Capital Partners Management, LP for the purpose of entering into a merger, stock purchase, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The strategy of ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp. is to identify and acquire businesses located in North America that concentrate on combating climate change by decreasing the carbon intensity of energy production, increasing the efficiency of industrial and consumer-related activities, expanding electricity storage and distribution, and improving the overall sustainability of the economy through efforts to lower pollution and increase beneficial reuse. For more information, visit ecpennv.com.
CONTACTS
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Senior Dir, Public Relations
(312) 465-6345; pr@fastradius.com
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws with respect to the proposed business combination (the “Transaction”) between Fast Radius and ENNV. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “scales,” “representative of,” “valuation,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) the risk that the Transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of ENNV’s securities, (ii) the risk that the Transaction may not be completed by ENNV’s business combination deadline and the potential failure to obtain an extension of the business combination deadline if sought by ENNV, (iii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the Transaction, including the requisite approvals of ENNV’s and Fast Radius’ stockholders, the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount following any redemptions by ENNV’s public stockholders and the receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals, (iv) the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the Transaction, (v) the risk that ENNV’s proposed private offering of public equity is not completed, (vi) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the agreement and plan of merger (the “Merger Agreement”) relating to the Transaction, (vii) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the Transaction on Fast Radius’ business or employee relationships, operating results and business generally, (viii) the risk that the Transaction disrupts current plans and operations of Fast Radius, (ix) the risk of difficulties in retaining employees of Fast Radius as a result of the Transaction, (x) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Fast Radius or against ENNV related to the Merger Agreement or the Transaction, (xi) the ability to maintain the listing of ENNV’s securities on a national securities exchange, (xii) changes in the competitive industries in which Fast Radius operates, variations in operating performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Fast Radius’ business and changes in the combined capital structure, (xiii) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the Transaction, and the ability to identify and realize additional opportunities, (xiv) risks related to the uncertainty of Fast Radius’ projected financial information, (xv) risks related to Fast Radius’ potential inability to become profitable and generate cash, (xvi) current and future conditions in the global economy, including as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, (xvii) the risk that demand for Fast Radius’ cloud manufacturing technology does not grow as expected, (xviii) the ability of Fast Radius to retain existing customers and attract new customers, (xix) the potential inability of Fast Radius to manage growth effectively, (xx) the potential inability of Fast Radius to increase its cloud manufacturing capacity or to achieve efficiencies regarding its cloud manufacturing process or other costs, (xxi) the enforceability of Fast Radius’ intellectual property rights, including its copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets, and the potential infringement on the intellectual property rights of others, (xxii) Fast Radius’ dependence on senior management and other key employees, (xxiii) the risk of downturns and a changing regulatory landscape in the highly competitive industry in which Fast Radius operates, (xxiv) the risk that Fast Radius may require additional funding for its growth plans and may not be able to obtain any additional financing on terms that are acceptable to Fast Radius or at all and (xxv) costs related to the Transaction and the failure to realize anticipated benefits of the Transaction or to realize estimated pro forma results and underlying assumptions, including with respect to estimated stockholder redemptions. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties which will be more fully described in the “Risk Factors” section of ENNV’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, the registration statement on Form S-4 and the proxy statement/prospectus discussed below and other documents filed by ENNV from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Fast Radius and ENNV assume no obligation and do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Neither Fast Radius nor ENNV gives any assurance that either Fast Radius or ENNV, or the combined company, will achieve its expectations.
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This press release relates to the proposed Transaction between ENNV and Fast Radius. ENNV filed a registration statement on Form S-4 relating to the Transaction with the SEC on September 3, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), which included a proxy statement/prospectus that will be sent to all ENNV stockholders. ENNV will also file other documents regarding the Transaction with the SEC. Before making any voting decision, investors and security holders of ENNV and Fast Radius are urged to read the Registration Statement, the proxy statement/prospectus and all other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC in connection with the Transaction as they become available because they will contain important information about the Transaction. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement, the proxy statement/prospectus, and all other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC by ENNV through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. The documents filed by ENNV with the SEC also may be obtained free of charge upon written request to ENNV at 40 Beechwood Road, Summit, New Jersey 07901.
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