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Department of Energy awards $3 million to our advanced tooling team

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

We have some incredible news!

The Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office just awarded $3 Million to our project team to advance 3D printed tooling!

The strategic funding from the U.S. Department of Energy aims to decarbonize the U.S. industrial sector, advancing clean energy manufacturing, and improving America's economic competitiveness and workforce diversity. Our project team includes Fortify, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, MPI Systems, and RePliForm Inc.

The goal of the project is to develop additively manufactured tooling with orders of magnitude improvements on cost and durability versus traditional CNC tooling with cycle times on par with CNC tooling. We will achieve this by combining polySpectra's Cyclic Olefin Resin materials with Fortify's Digital Composite Manufacturing technology.

With a focus on automotive lightweighting, the proposed work will address the critical need to develop improved methods for commercial vehicle part production.

This advanced manufacturing technology will accelerate improvements in transportation vehicle fuel efficiency and realize the corresponding energy savings and emissions reduction.

The project also features significant efforts to amplify underrepresented groups in the automotive manufacturing sector by building skills in additive manufacturing and rapid tooling. Through training and recruitment programs, the team hopes to create a diverse pool of candidates with the necessary additive tooling skills to enter the automotive work force.

Along the way, the project team will be mentoring and providing in-kind support to underrepresented innovators, including students and entrepreneurs.

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PR News Wire | The Perfect Tech | TCT Magazine | Fortify

Olefin-based thermoset composites have been used for many decades in extremely demanding applications such as wind turbine blades and fuel cell components, because they are among the most durable materials on the planet. Under this research grant, we will leverage Nobel-winning chemistry to directly 3D-print these robust composite Cyclic Olefin Resins.

The goal of the DOE project is to bring unprecedented materials durability to additive manufacturing, which will provide the industry with immense leverage for the decarbonization and reshoring of the US manufacturing sector.

Make it real.

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P.S. - Fun fact: the most popular use case of COR Alpha (by order volume) is for manufacturing highly durable tooling. Our customers use COR molds every day for many types of polymer molding, including injection molding, blow molding, & thermoset molding. Curious to learn more? Book a call with our team today: https://geni.us/makeitreal-inquiry, or skip straight to an instant quote if you already have your tool designed.

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