Apr 29, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN Freshmade 3D, a portfolio company of the Youngstown Business Incubator, was purchased by suburban Pittsburgh firm, ExOne Company, a manufacturer of 3D-printing systems, it announced Wednesday.
The move allows ExOne to offer AMClad Tooling, a process patented by Freshmade 3D of infiltrating and coating 3D-printed sand forms to give them strength for a wide range of tooling applications, including vacuum forming.
Freshmade 3D already was using ExOne systems to make the tooling, according to a press release.
“We launched AMClad with the idea of using sand 3D-printing technology to deliver hard tooling faster and with more design freedom, to enable U.S. manufacturers to produce more locally and faster,” said Rich Wetzel, Freshmade 3D co-founder, who now will join ExOne’s applications team. “ExOne is the best company to accelerate this technology as we scale up for customers who’ve decided to leverage our solution to meet production goals faster. Co
ExOne Accelerates Expansion into 3D Printed Tooling Business with Acquisition of Freshmade 3D Assets
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Apr 28, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown Business Incubator is part of a northeast Ohio regional partnership awarded $703,378 to improve the recovery and resiliency of the local economy hurt by the viral pandemic.
Resilient NEO a partnership that also includes the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET), JumpStart and Team NEO is among 44 organizations sharing $29 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration and its Scaling Pandemic Resilience Through Innovation and Technology (SPRINT) Challenge.
The money will be spent over the next 18 months to enhance innovation capacity in seven counties in northeast Ohio, including Trumbull and Mahoning counties, by facilitating connection between industries, “thereby promoting innovation, and advancing ‘smart’ manufacturing, creating the conditions to produce these new innovations at scale,” according to a project description.