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Composites Community Converges on Salt Lake City

for IACMI Summer 2022 Members Meeting

 

Thank you to the more than 200 IACMI members and core partnes who attended in the Summer 2022 Members Meeting in Salt Lake City June 28-30. We appreciate your time and engagement, as well as the collaborative spirit to convene and connect in-person as we aim to accelerate advanced composites design, manufacturing, technical innovation, and workforce solutions. A special thank you to our event partner, the Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI), as well as sponsors American Chemistry Council Plastics Division, Dassault Systèmes, TPI Composites, Composites One, Berndorf, Vartega and the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity.

 

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Submit a Project: IACMI Accepting RFPs

 

Effective July 15, 2022, IACMI is accepting proposals to fund precompetitive technical projects up to $50,000 that advance, utilize, or demonstrate emerging technologies that have the potential to attract higher levels of follow-on funding. 

 

The deadline to submit RFPs for this project cycle is August 26, 2022.

ACE Milestone Alert!

We are thrilled to announce that America’s Cutting Edge (ACE), a workforce training initiative managed by IACMI, has hit four more major milestones:

• 2,500 online participants from all 50 states
• 500 participants in the online metrology course
• 150 completions of the in-person ACE bootcamp training
• 83 consecutive weeks of growth of the program

ACE offers free training to help address the skills gap that’s been widening for decades in U.S. manufacturing. We have more bootcamps scheduled in July, including one focused on composites with Dr. Uday Vaidya.

 

Ms. Adele Ratcliff, one of our keynote speakers at IACMI’s Members Meeting in Salt Lake City, put it this way: “Whoever you are, wherever you are, there is a place for you in manufacturing, and ACE can help you realize your dreams as an individual. ACE can be a pathway to prosperity for you and your community while contributing to the economic security of our country.”

 

We are making a difference, but there’s always room for more! Learn more about ACE and sign up today!

UT Hosting 13th Annual International Conference
on Sandwich Structures in October

 

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 13th International Conference on Sandwich Structures is scheduled for October 23-26, 2022, in Knoxville.

 

The conference will highlight the most recent research and development regarding polymeric and metallic core-based composite sandwich structures in the fields of aerospace, architecture, automotive, civil engineering, compressed gas storage, infrastructure, mechanical engineering, naval, and wind energy.

 

The chair of the conference, Professor Dayakar Penumadu from IACMI and the University of Tennessee, said “we have an exciting technical program planned with highly distinguished scientists and experts in this field from all over the world show casing the materials, mechanics, and manufacturing technology to create next generation lightweight materials for transportation and clean energy infrastructure.”

 

Early registration deadline is July 31. Learn more and register now.

DOE Will Fund Applied Research and Development
to Accelerate Decarbonization of American Industry

 

In June, DOE announced its intent to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that will support DOE’s efforts to decarbonize the American industrial sector and move the U.S. toward net-zero carbon emissions. The new FOA will support the advancement of a range of decarbonization technologies that can shrink the carbon footprint of America’s vital industries.  

 

The “Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization FOA” is expected to include the following topics, applying the four industrial decarbonization pathways to energy-intensive American industries where decarbonization technologies could have the greatest impact: 

• Decarbonizing Chemicals
• Decarbonizing Iron and Steel
• Decarbonizing Food and Beverage Products
• Decarbonizing Cement and Concrete
• Decarbonizing Paper and Forest Products
• Cross-sector Decarbonization Technologies

DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office plans to issue the FOA via EERE Exchange in August 2022.

 

For more info, visit Advanced Manufacturing Office website.

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