Our objective is to lift up and leverage the work of our partners.

Our Partners

Our industry partners are helping us understand where the future of technology meets the needs of our industry today.

These partners are driving the nation towards a future in advanced manufacturing and benefit from the AM2 Tech Hub through easier access to technical support, technology, and talent.

What They Do:

1.  Create, characterize, inspect, design, and apply innovative and sustainable materials in advanced manufacturing

2.  Develop additive manufacturing equipment and use the equipment to design and test new manufacturing parts

3.  Use applied materials and additive manufacturing technology and parts in their larger manufacturing facilities

Current Partners:
Our business development partners help us design and implement programming tailored to help new and existing businesses grow and prosper.

These partners help startups, small businesses, and medium and large businesses grow.

What They Do:

1.   Facilitate the adoption of AM2 technologies among businesses in their day-to-day processes

2.  Provide short- and long-term technical and business assistance to AM2 industry partners

3.  Promote policy and regulation meant to streamline the safe adoption of AM2 technology

Current Partners:
Our education and talent partners help us guarantee future talent with knowledge and expertise in additive manufacturing and advanced materials.

These partners support industry through talent development, retention, and attraction.

What They Do:

1.   Develop a regional pipeline of talent skilled and eager to use AM2 technologies

2.  Provide training for industry partners’ existing workers

3.  Support programming that attracts and retains workers in the AM2 industry

Current Partners:
Our government partners help us develop and maintain an ecosystem of resources meant to support advanced manufacturing.

These partners continue to search and identify ways of supporting manufacturing through financial, organizational, and physical resources.

What They Do:

1.   Help find resources matching your needs

2.  Work with you one-on-one to grow your business, organization, or program

3.  Engage with other partners to leverage regional resources and better help you

Current Partners:

Partner Highlights

How can we best collaborate to support and grow advanced
manufacturing in Virginia and the United States at large?