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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) played host to Manufacturing Innovations 2011, a conference held in late spring 2011 in Orlando. The event’s purpose was to bring together manufacturers, industry experts and MEP field staff in order to help U.S. manufacturers profit, grow, and position themselves for the future by providing access to emerging technologies, partnerships, methodologies and ultimately new business opportunities.
Representatives from PolymerOhio, a polymer industry-specific Ohio Edison Technology Center funded by the Ohio Department of Development, attended the conference because PolymerOhio participates in MEP and plans to become part of MEP’s Innovation Engineering Management System. “One of our interests at PolymerOhio is connecting Ohio companies with opportunities and working relationships with Federal government,” said Kirbie Earley, PolymerOhio MEP Program Manager. “At the conference, we were part of the more than 700 attendees who shared experiences and knowledge on how to strengthen and improve our organizations to make the U.S. manufacturing base more competitive,” she said. |
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011 12:13 |
With three years of funding now concluded, team members in the Research Commercialization Program (RCP) Composites grant are adding up their successes and the knowledge gained. Funded through the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier program (ODOD OTF), team technical co-lead, Teresa Wagner was pleased with the progress on all three of the Composites RCP market areas: energy, transportation, and survivability. Wagner, Leader of CSB Pioneering Technologies at Owens Corning Science and Technology (S&T) center in Granville, OH, shared program research leadership with Dr. Rob Banerjee, VP for Business Development at WebCore Technologies, LLC in Miamisburg, OH. Steve Mitchell, who retired from GE Aviation in Cincinnati and then transitioned to the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) during the term of the RCP, also played a key role in project management and deployment.
The overall RCP was funded for $8MM, but received a cost share pledge of an additional ~$8.1MM. In early 2011, the RCP was responsible for creating 44 for-profit jobs and 8 not-for-profit jobs while retaining 20 Ohio jobs. Approximately two-thirds of the total jobs were related to manufacturing and the remaining jobs were tied to research and development. |
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Monday, 20 June 2011 12:57 |
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Good News for Ohio Companies: The Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) has approved a second year of funding for the E-TAG (Edison Technology Assistance Grants) program. This second year program makes available a total of $500K for awards in the form of small grants of up to $50K each. A cost share match is required.
The E-TAG program, through the Edison Centers (e.g., PolymerOhio), is looking for existing companies that need technical assistance from one or more of the Edison Centers to accelerate a product or process that will lead to new jobs, new sales, and new markets – in a relatively short period of time. Projects must be completed within 6 to 9 months. Metrics to measure progress must take place within 12 months of the end of the project, and 3-year projections will be requested. |
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Monday, 11 July 2011 18:54 |
With $8MM and a 3-year project lifetime, imagine what a talented team of Ohio-based companies and universities can do to explore the development and commercialization of very high-tech polymer materials based on polyimide chemistry. The Functional Polyimide Films and Nanocomposites Research Commercialization Program (RCP) grant has just completed its amazing progress, thanks to funding through the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier program (ODOD OTF). The RCP research team was organized and coordinated by Professor Miko Cakmak, Distinguished Professor and Harold A. Morton Chair of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron (UA) and Dr. Sharell Mikesell, who serves as Associate Vice President at The Ohio State University and heads the Industry Liaison Office (ILO). Mikesell also serves as co-director for The Wright Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND) at Ohio State.
Along with a sister RCP grant awarded for composites commercialization to OCV™ Pioneering Technologies at Owens-Corning Science and Technology (S&T) center in Granville, OH; WebCore Technologies, LLC in Miamisburg, OH, GE Aviation in Cincinnati; and the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), these two efforts created 149 jobs and retained 98 jobs in Ohio. These two programs have been responsible for $345MM in sales and $214MM in new funds gained. These two programs have been responsible for $345M in sales and $214M in new funds gained. Further, these two efforts led to 60 patent filings, provided the impetus for starting seven companies, and attracted two companies to locate their businesses in Ohio. |
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Monday, 13 June 2011 12:07 |
With new materials and innovation methods for compounding, sometimes the compounder has a rather wide range of possibilities on what kinds of materials could be created. So how much biopolymer in a compound is enough? This interesting challenge was addressed by Roger Avakian, Vice President for Scientific Development, PolyOne™ Corporation, at an Emerging Technology Forum (ETF), sponsored by PolymerOhio and held in Columbus.
PolyOne in Avon Lake, OH, is the world’s largest independent compounder. One of their products, reSound™ is a biopolymer compound that can be used in combination with thermoplastic resins to produce numerous desirable strength and resilience properties well-suited for building and construction applications. |
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