Lightweight Materials

On this episode, Joe Steele of LIFT joins the podcast to share some recent news. Their organization has been awarded a contract to accelerate the development of ceramic-based materials for use in industrial and defense applications.

This new four-year, $9 million “Critical Materials Processing” program will advance the state of technology and...

3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing

The U.S. Department of Defense wants to know how to get the rust out of metals created in the additive manufacturing process. It’s willing to pay $1.3 million for the answer.

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, based in Youngstown, announced Tuesday a new open project call that is being funded by the...

Manufacturing

From the first mills and forges that built our young Republic to the cutting-edge industries of today, manufacturing has always been the foundation of our prosperity, the strength of our communities, the safeguard of our independence, and the engine of our greatness. This National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the unmatched might of America’s...

Biofabrication, Biomanufacturing

As the nation celebrates National Manufacturing Month during the month of October, a new kind of industrial revolution is quietly reshaping America’s production landscape. Instead of furnaces and foundries, this one runs on fermentation tanks, engineered cells, and feedstocks like algae and corn.

The movement has a name: bioindustrial manufacturing...