AMO’s REMADE Institute Announces Three Foundational Projects

• AMO’s REMADE Institute Announces Three Foundational Projects
• RAPID Manufacturing Institute Announces Two Project Calls to Open in Late March
• AMO’s Composite Institute to Co-host 2018 Closed Mold Alliance Workshops
• Texas Nameplate Co. Joins AMO’s Better Plants Program
• DOE Features Women in the Manhattan Project During Women’s History Month

AMO’s REMADE Institute Announces Three Foundational Projects

The Advanced Manufacturing Office’s Reducing EMbodied-Energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute announced the selection of its first three foundational projects focused on recycling and recovery of paper, fibers, polymers, and e-waste.

Read more about the selected projects by visiting this page.

RAPID Manufacturing Institute Announces Two Project Calls to Open in Late March

The Rapid Manufacturing Institute will issue two calls for project proposals in late March. This call will be more unique as it focuses on Education and Workforce Development and will provide a face-to-face training course that is hands-on, project-based, inquiry-based or lab-based, is 2-5 days in duration, and is targeted to graduate students and professional engineers. These will be open to current RAPID members in good standing, who will lead the projects. All proposals whether technical or educational should advance the technical knowledge in one or more of RAPID’s focus areas: Modeling and Simulation, Module Manufacturing, Intensified Process Fundamentals, Renewable Bioproducts, Chemicals and Commodities Processing, and Natural Gas Upgrading. Both project calls will close in May.

Visit the RAPID website and membership areas for more information.

AMO’s Composite Institute to Co-host 2018 Closed Mold Alliance Workshops

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) and Composites One, leading the Closed Mold Alliance, are co-hosting four new composites training workshops in 2018. Each workshop is unique from the content covered in previous years and is designed to train composites technicians and workers on techniques utilized in the industry. The 2018 workshops continue to offer a collaboration of composites experts and researchers working with composites industry workers to advance the integration of composites into IACMI’s technology areas.

• Road2Composites: Scaling up for Innovation | April 17 - 18 | Detroit, MI
• Advanced Composites Use in Wind Energy Technology | June 5 - 6 | Denver, CO
• Pultrusion-Focused Workshop | Aug. 21 - 22 | Knoxville, TN
• Composites Training Workshop | Nov. 14 - 15 | Dayton, OH

For more information about the 2018 Close Mold Alliance Workshops, click here.

Texas Nameplate Co. Joins AMO’s Better Plants Program

AMO’s Better Plants program welcomed its newest member, Texas Nameplate Co., a manufacturer of metallic and non-metallic nameplates, custom labels, name tags, and identification tags for a wide variety of applications. With the help of the Better Plants program, Texas Nameplate Co. pledged to reduce energy intensity in their U.S. manufacturing operations by 25% within ten years.

Click here to learn more about the Better Plants Program.

DOE Features Women in the Manhattan Project During Women’s History Month

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) featured the essential contributions women have made to the success of the agency’s mission, dating back to the 1940s and the Manhattan Project – the top-secret mission to develop the world’s first nuclear weapon that helped win World War II.

Earlier this month, DOE released a photo album, a timeline, and blogs and illustrations that highlight the accomplishments of five women who helped on the project.

For more, visit energy.gov/manhattanproject.