Four startups join HTR's business incubator
November 12, 2013
Rochester Business Journal High Tech Rochester Inc.’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center in Henrietta now houses four additional startups that have joined the firm’s business incubation
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What is 4D Printing?
November 7, 2013
With 4D printing, “programmable materials” change shape over time – the fourth dimension. At M.I.T.’s Self-Assembly Lab, researchers have created a flat sheet that folds
Relax in comfort in this 3-D Printed Mushroom chair
November 7, 2013
We have presented articles in our blogs, which show organic, biological 3-D printing projects, such as printing skin, organs, and making prosthetics. Here is an article, which has an artist combining 3-D printing and organic materials to make furniture!
Yes, this chair, 3-D Printed with straw, biopolymer, and mycelium (the organic basis of mushrooms and other fungi) actually lives! It “breathes”, takes in nutrients, and “grows”.
Does manufacturing thrive when industry partners with other players?
November 7, 2013
In Manufacturing for Growth: Strategies for Driving Growth and Employment, experts from the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmastu Limited (DTTL) explain why “today’s global competitiveness environment requires a team effort to succeed”.
Leaders in business, government, and academia must make “strategic choices” about how to develop and sustain advanced manufacturing, the report’s executive summary maintains. By sharing knowledge, building capabilities, and making decisions together, public and private partners can choose wisely and strengthen national economies.
Ecovative Design raises $14 million in private equity funds
November 7, 2013
Albany Business Review Ecovative Design, the startup whose innovative mushroom technology is serving as packaging material for such big players as Dell Inc. and Steelcase Inc., has raised
Apple will open U.S. parts manufacturing plant
November 5, 2013
Albany Business Review Apple Inc. will open a parts manufacturing plant in the United States that will employ at least 700 people and create 1,300 construction
Mozzarella cheese maker expands in NY, creating 200 jobs
October 31, 2013
Albany Business Review Empire Specialty Cheese, a manufacturer of ricotta and mozzarella, is investing $6.4 million to move and expand its production plant in upstate
Plans take shape for chip manufacturing in Marcy
October 22, 2013
Capital Business Blog The SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany and its partners announced plans to build three chip manufacturing plants on
Additive Manufacturing: Let’s Make New Body Parts
October 21, 2013
Additive Manufacturing continues to grow in areas that are simply amazing. The medical industry continues to find ways to amaze with 3-D printing technology. A company in the UK, Fripp Design and Research, partnered with the University of Sheffield and The Wellcome Trust,( 3-D Printing Noses) has pioneered the printing of cosmetic features, like noses and ears. The company uses the synthetic laser sintering process ( See my blog: Synthetic Laser Sintering) to print noses (and other soft tissue appendages), using scans from the patient to determine mounting points, and designing the appendage to the customer’s preferences.
