Fast Radius, is working with TacMed, a leading supplier of emergency medical equipment, to produce a key component used in TacMed's SOF® Tourniquet. The SOF Tourniquet is a pre-hospital emergency medical device that's used by military and front-line personnel around the world to stop bleeding from potentially life-threatening limb wounds. Leveraging Fast Radius' Cloud Manufacturing Platform™ to rapidly scale production of a critical Tourniquet part, TacMed is able to meet increasing demand for the product in response to the conflict in Ukraine, overcoming bottlenecks within the global supply chain.

Fast Radius is producing 800,000 precision-engineered parts for TacMed's SOF Tourniquet. The anodized aluminum part—known as a windlass—is produced via CNC turning. Due to demand, Fast Radius delivered 100,000 parts to TacMed in just 30 days, meeting their desired timeline while reducing costs.

Though demand has always been high for the TacMed SOF Tourniquet, the conflict in Ukraine that commenced during the first quarter of 2022 sparked a rapid uptick in demand, which is continuing to grow. In addition to supplying allies supporting the Ukrainian war effort, TacMed has partnered with relief organizations including Samaritan's Purse, Afya, and Ukrainian American Foundation to distribute donations of the SOF Tourniquet. In total, TacMed has provided more than 50,000 tourniquets to the Ukrainian war effort as of May 2022, with plans to grow that number into the hundreds of thousands in summer 2022 if needed.

These ambitious plans require consistent manufacturing for high part volumes and a steady supply chain. As the companies look at the remainder of 2022 and beyond, Fast Radius and TacMed plan to continue to work together to create parts for the SOF Tourniquet and evaluate collaborations on other products.