We are a global destination for additive manufacturing and advanced materials solutions, where manufacturers find top technology, talent, and manufacturing solutions in the beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia.
We’re on a mission to create agile, resilient, and affordable solutions for advanced manufacturing.
Leveraging our strategic location on the East Coast and wide array of regional assets, the Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (AM2) Tech Hub is supercharging the innovation economy and creating an ideal business environment for industry. With support for the Economic Development Administration’s Tech Hubs Program and the Virginia Initiative for Growth & Opportunity (GOVA), private and public sector partners are joining forces.
National calls for reshoring manufacturing have exponentially increased, as manufacturing is imperative to the economic resilience, innovation, and continued security of American society. Today, additive manufacturing and advanced materials production are key drivers in reshoring and transforming American manufacturing, and according to Business Research Insights, this industry will support net-zero carbon emission goals and greatly accelerate industry growth over the next several years.
This Tech Hub identifies the industry and supply chain gaps, leverages unique assets from the New River Valley and Southern Virginia regions to fill those gaps, and ultimately propels advanced manufacturing into the future.
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We have developed a set of strategies and activities meant to mobilize ecosystem resources and support company development and growth. Projects include:
We design, refine, & test technologies, processes & products to improve manufacturers’ efficiency, technology readiness, and product quality.
We accelerate the commercialization timeline of AM2 and related technologies to strengthen manufacturers’ global
competitiveness.
We strengthen the manufacturing workforce pipeline by creating curriculum and quality work-based learning from middle school through adult education.
We are currently developing strategies and implementation projects meant to mobilize ecosystem resources and support company development and growth. Priority projects include:
We facilitate access to AM2 Intellectual Property and assist business startups interested in growing and using this technology.
We create and support talent
skilled in AM2 and other technologies needed to support the future of manufacturing.
We help existing businesses, small and large, grow through AM2 technology adoption and technical assistance.
How can this Tech Hub support and grow your work?
Please reach out to us with questions and thoughts on how we might partner in this important effort.
Led by Virginia Tech, Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, and GENEDGE, AM2 Studios streamlines regional manufacturers’ access to equipment and expertise to solve industry problems related to but also outside the scope of AM2 technologies.
Roanoke-Blacksburg Innovation Alliance leads a team of innovation partners to increase the speed to market of products for new and existing regional manufacturers, supporting the space-up of manufacturers.
With dozens of talent partners, the AM2 Career Network addresses the dire need to create a seamless pipeline of reliable and adaptive manufacturing technical talent.
Let’s make additive manufacturing and advanced materials technologies easier to commercialize and grow entrepreneurial startups around these technologies!
We are pulling together existing programs and generating new activities that increase the transparency of the process and support those wanting to take technology to market. Let us know how we can help.
