The Youngstown Business Incubator, along with America Makes, and Team NEO, have been awarded a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation to develop an infrastructure and provide commercialization services for technologies related to Additive Manufacturing (AM). This program will focus on commercializing the Intellectual Property resulting from...

Ricardo Defense Systems, LLC, (RDS) and Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT), a Manufacturing USA institute, announced today the successful completion of their pilot project to retrofit 10 Michigan National Guard vehicles with RDS’s optimized ABS (antilock braking system) and ESC (electronic stability control) to reduce High Mobility...

Manufacturing USA today released its 2016 Annual Report to Congress. The report describes the program’s work in helping to move discoveries in the nation’s universities and research laboratories to the shop floor here in America. It highlights the nine Manufacturing USA institutes that were active in fiscal year 2016, and documents the network's...

Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT) announces a new internship program for local college students, providing them with real-world, hands-on experience in the cutting edge advanced manufacturing industry.

Students participating in LIFT’s internship program will be mentored by in-house LIFT engineers.

The internship program is designed...

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL) is moving its headquarters into the University of Delaware’s new Biopharmaceutical Innovation Building, which is scheduled to open in 2020. NIIMBL participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the building on Monday.

A rendering of the Biopharmaceutical...

Detroit, Michigan, October 6, 2017 – Two Manufacturing USA institutes, The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) (Knoxville, Tenn.), and LIFT- Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (Detroit, Mich.), celebrated Manufacturing Day on October 6, 2017, by cutting the ribbon on and hosting an open house at the new IACMI/LIFT...

WASHINGTON – To find out how the Pentagon is driving new manufacturing techniques, you need to look to a network of public-private partnerships located around the country.

Manufacturing USA is a series of centers of excellence spread around the country, with each center focused on a different technological area of study.

The Pentagon has a role...

Port Angeles, WA, September 18, 2017 … The Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) and ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd jointly demonstrated the manufacture of an automotive seatback made from recycled carbon fiber composite, at the Automotive Lightweight Materials Summit in Detroit, Mich., on Aug. 22-24, 2017.

Left to right: CRTC Chief Executive...

Knoxville Tenn., September 14, 2017 … The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), a 150+ member, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and U.S. Department of Energy driven consortium committed to increasing domestic production capacity and manufacturing jobs across the U.S. composites industry, announces a project to...

Researchers from North Carolina State University are rolling out a new manufacturing process and chip design for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, which can be used to more efficiently regulate power in technologies that use electronics. The process – called PRESiCE™ – was developed with support from the PowerAmerica Institute funded by the...

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) and BioPhorum Operations Group (BPOG) and have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop a US-specific roadmap for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The roadmap will complement the existing BPOG global roadmap.

The US-specific Roadmap will focus...