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University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer virtual science cafés for teens in grades 7–12 from 4–4:45 p.m. each Tuesday beginning March 2. Maine 4-H Virtual Science Cafés will feature informal sessions with University of Maine scientists discussing their research and providing insight into what motivated their work.  In the first webinar, UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center business development manager John Arimond will discuss wind energy research an...

Gov. Janet Mills delivered her State of the Budget address Tuesday night — not in person as is customary but in a video presented to lawmakers, due to the

State of Maine COVID-19 Response My Administration has sought to do its part to protect the lives and livelihoods of Maine people. With help from the Maine Legislature last spring, we began rallying the forces necessary to help people who were suffering job losses, to get food to school children and to build out our team of health professionals to protect Maine families from this dangerous virus. My Administration implemented public health and safety measures, dialing them up and then scaling t...

Advanced Infrastructure Technologies Launches Third Division – AIT Manufacturing Share Article BREWER, Maine (PRWEB) February 16, 2021 Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a leading provider of innovative fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite solutions, today announced, the addition of a new operating division: AIT Manufacturing. This new division adds to AIT’s two existing divisions: AIT Bridges, a composite bridge s...

New operating division AIT Manufacturing currently offers GBar, GBolt, GMat, GCage and GWall composite products for the infrastructure industry.

February 5, 2021 As the market for wind energy continues to grow, it becomes more important to be able to design and manufacture wind blades quickly and at reasonable costs. The development of molds and tools for large blades can take more than a year and cost more than $10 million. The University of Maine (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center is looking to change that paradigm by developing a 3D printing solution for fabricating large, segmented wind blade molds. While working on ...

In Maine, the US Department of Energy has awarded the University of Maine $2.8 million to develop an additive for 3D manufacturing of wind turbine blades. The grant will see large wind blade molds printed at UMaine’s Composite Center, home to the world’s largest polymer 3D printer, according to Habib Dagher, executive director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The turbines will ultimately be produced using biobased materials reinforced with wood.  “By combining cut...

0 Shares The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center received $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a rapid, low-cost additive manufacturing solution for fabricating large, segmented wind blade molds. The Department of Energy’s focus aims to combat the current costs of wind turbine technology. Innovation in large wind blade technology is a costly and time-intensive process. Molds and tooling for l...

The University was awarded $2.8 million for this three-year project which will begin next month.

By Staff The University of Maine has been awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a rapid, low-cost additive manufacturing — 3D printing — solution for making large, segmented molds for wind-turbine blades.  In addition to receiving the federal funds, the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center will collaborate on a $4 million award to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to apply robotic deposition of continuous reinforcing fibers in wind blades...