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Written by: Steve Melito Would you like to get news about New York manufacturing while you’re on LinkedIn? Would you like to become a thought leader,

The Center for Global Advanced Manufacturing (CGAM) is building laboratories to provide New York manufacturers with access to state-of-the-art technologies that cost more than many small companies can afford. Known as SMARTT labs, these SUNY Manufacturing Alliance for Research and Technology Transfer (SMARTT) facilities offer access to advanced equipment such as 3D printers and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Manufacturers pay for utilities and materials, but can use SMARTT equipment free-of-charge.

Life is not all rosy in Additive Manufacturing, according to an article that Forbes just published, there are several challenges manufacturers face in adopting the technologies. I thought I would paraphrase the article, since it represents a counterpoint to the picture I may have been presenting about the joys of additive in my past blogs. Don’t get me wrong, I embrace the technology, but I want to present a balanced viewpoint, this article accomplishes that!

EE-INC is a wide-ranging initiative that is part of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s BuildSmart NY program to grow the energy efficiency industry in New York by identifying and installing commercial, but not yet widely deployed, energy efficiency technologies and products in schools, offices, healthcare facilities and other public buildings.

In Additive Manufacturing: A new tool in the toolbox, Part 6, we viewed a new bicycle hub,
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that was fabricated by a NY manufacturer, using his Selective Laser Sintering Machine. #-D printed bike parts are catching on! Renishaw, the British company that manufactures Additive Manufacturing machines, has collaborated with Empire Cycles in the UK, to produce one of the first, 3-D Printed titanium alloy bike frame. The frame is fabricated in sections from a titanium alloy, then bonded together to form the very light and strong frame. It is 30% lighter than its predecessor.

Blog Written by Hutch Hutchison, Director, Technology & Engineering Matching, FuzeHub This just in! Stratasys has announced it will be taking orders for a major

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