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Advanced Materials / Auto Industry / Composites

Two papers win awards at SPE Automotive Composites event

TROY—The organizing committee for the SPE Automotive Composites Conference &  Exhibition (ACCE) honored the Best Paper Award winners for the group’s 20th annual program at their virtual event Sept. 9-11. …

Advanced Manufacturing / Advanced Materials / Industry 4.0 / K-12 Education / Materials Science / Workforce Development

LIFT, Amatrol roll out new advanced manufacturing curriculum for high schools

DETROIT—LIFT, the Detroit-based National Manufacturing Innovation Institute, and Amatrol, the Jefferson, Ind.-based industrial training company, have introduced a new learning system for advanced manufacturing. Following successful pilots in three school …

3D Printing / Advanced Materials / Artificial Intelligence / Augmented Reality / Big Data / Cloud Technologies / Robotics / Virtual Reality

IBM, Intel among new sponsors of Automation Alley conference

TROY—The Troy-based technology and manufacturing business association Automation Alley announced that IBM and Intel have signed on as event sponsors for its global Industry 4.0 conference, Integr8. Heading into its …

Advanced Materials / Bioengineering / Genetic Engineering / Intellectual Property / Patents

Kraig files for patents on ‘spider silk’ technologies

ANN ARBOR—Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) announced that it had filed five new provisional patent applications for technologies related to its recombinant spider silk technologies. These applications cover a …

Advanced Materials / Lightweighting

Groundbreaking welding machine part of ‘lightweighting’ initiative

DETROIT—The first and only linear friction welder capable of full-sized part development in North America is now fully operational and ready for project work at LIFT—Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a …

Advanced Materials / Solar Power / University Research

Black and blue: different silicon drops cost of solar cells

HOUGHTON — At the end of one of the hottest summers on record, as fights rage on about how to power homes, renewable solar energy continues to present as an …

Advanced Materials / Chemistry

DowDuPont advances spinout of materials science division with stock filing

MIDLAND — DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP) has begun the stock process of spinning out its materials science division into a new corporation, to be called Dow, with the filing of an …

Advanced Materials / Internships

Five Michigan engineering students — 4 from MSU — get IACMI internships

EAST LANSING — One is conducting materials science research at the DuPont Experimental Station in Delaware; another has returned to his internship in Detroit; two others are working in Michigan …

Advanced Materials / Agricultural Industry / Genetic Engineering

Kraig gets deal in Vietnam for raw material for ‘spider silk’

ANN ARBOR — Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) announced an agreement between its subsidiary Prodigy Textiles Co. Ltd. and three farming cooperatives in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Under these …

Advanced Materials / Biotech

Kraig announces production breakthrough in ‘spider silk’

ANN ARBOR — Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB), the developer of gene splicing technology that creates silkworm silk with the strength of spiderwebs, announced a milestone completion of more …

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