YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, today welcomed U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to its headquarters downtown. Pritzker was accompanied by Jay Williams, the city’s former may who now serves as assistant secretary of…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Ptizker and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-13 Ohio, will tour America Makes downtown Thursday, Ryan’s office announced a short while ago. Pritzker also will meet with the public-private institute’s leadership and participate in…
BOARDMAN, Ohio – A company that in December started manufacturing plastic resin filament used as feedstock in additive manufacturing equipment is stepping up its game. “You’ll be able to print airplanes and satellites with this type of equipment,” said Chuck…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Using 3D printers in Youngstown State University’s new Launch Lab, engineering students are designing and creating prototypes to make hard-to-find airplane parts for the Air Force Research Lab. “Some of the parts the Air Force needs are…
NEW YORK – Lightweight metals giant Alcoa completed its acquisition Thursday of Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals Inc., which operates a large titanium mill in Niles, Ohio. The deal, worth $1.5 billion, was announced last March. Under the acquisition, RTI is…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Barb Ewing is looking forward to having hammers swinging inside the fifth building of the Youngstown Business Incubator by Nov. 1. “And I would be thrilled if it would be before then,” she said Tuesday. The project…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, will provide up to $8 million from its third project call for additive manufacturing applied research and development projects. The nine awarded project teams, which include a team incorporating…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Last autumn, when officials from the University Business Incubator Index made the trip from Stockholm to Youngstown – naming the Youngstown Business Incubator the No. 1 University Affiliated Incubator in the World – they left the YBI…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Youngstown State University is getting a $365,000 grant from the Department of Defense to fund the purchase of a 3-D printer that will give its students and faculty “access to additive manufacturing technology unmatched by any other…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – To raise its profile in additive manufacturing, the Youngstown Business Incubator has announced the Amped $100,000 Startup Competition. YBI describes the contest as an opportunity for the winning team to start a portfolio company on its campus.…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Recently announced grants will boost programs aimed at training people for jobs in manufacturing and health care, proponents say. On Thursday, the Local Government Innovation Program awarded $50,000 to help establish a manufacturing training center in Youngstown.…
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Engineers are often described as being driven by the left side of the brain, where the neurosystem governs logic, rational thinking, and analytic ability. Artists are generally considered right-brain dominant, the part of the cranium that processes…
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