New news comes out of Youngstown, Ohio this week. The city is home to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, now America Makes, and is making strides in establishing the town as a key manufacturing hub in the United States. Youngstown State University, which has already established a close-knit relationship with America Makes, has just cut the ribbon on its new Center for Innovation in Additive Manufacturing. The Center houses 3D printing machines from industrial manufacturer ExOne in order to supply its undergraduate and graduate students of its new materials science and engineering PhD program with access to two state-of-the-art, industrial 3D printers. The ExOne M-Flex printer is a 3D metal printer that can print one layer of stainless steel, bronze or tungsten in 30 seconds with a build volume of 400 x 250 x 250 mm (15.7 x 9.8 x 9.8 in.). The university also has an ExOne X1-Lab printer, a unique machine specifically designed for materials research at the educational level. Both units were purchased with university funds, as well as money from Ohio Third Frontier through the Wright Center for Sensor Systems Engineering project.…
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