Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
East Tennessee has long been recognized as a region of people who know how to make things. Advanced manufacturing has maximized this attribute for decades, tapping and enriching a diverse skill set that includes the most advanced technologies.
- One of five federally designated innovation hubs focused on advanced manufacturing
- Home to the
- 3D Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
- With industry and world-leading capabilities in materials development, characterization, and processing, ORNL is creating an unmatched environment for breakthroughs in both metal and polymer additive manufacturing, or 3D printing.
- Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
- The CFTF offers a highly flexible, highly instrumented carbon fiber line for demonstrating advanced technology scalability and producing market-development volumes of prototypical carbon fibers.
- Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
- The institute’s HQ is located in a 140,000-square-foot mixed-use facility on the Research Park at Cherokee Farm. This research facility represents one of the world’s premier centers for advanced materials research.
- 3D Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
- Highly skilled and experienced manufacturing workforce
- Excellent training resources
- Region trisected by I-40, I-75, I-81
- Competitive, reliable electric power