EWI’s Work with CermaClad™ Pipes Highlighted in Wall Street Journal
EWI’s engagement with Abakan Inc.‘s subsidiary MesoCoat on the development of the award-winning CermaClad™ technology was featured in the April 17 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The CermaClad high speed metal coating process has received numerous tech innovation awards in the past year. To learn more about EWI and CermaClad, read the full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-908337.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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EWI affiliate Fabrisonic wins “Outstanding Startup Business” Award from TechColumbus
Congrats to Mark Norfolk and the Fabrisonic LLC team for being named this year’s “Outstanding Startup Business” at last night’s TechColumbus 2012 Innovation Awards ceremony! Twenty-eight Ohio businesses were nominated for the award which recognizes high-perfomance companies established within the last 5 years. To read more about the TechColumbus Innovation Awards, click here. Kudos to EWI Technology Leader Matt […]
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Exciting Plenary Session at this Year’s TMS Meeting
One my personal favorite activities as a materials engineer is my volunteer support of TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, tms.org). They are a first class organization and I always enjoy supporting their efforts on engaging the materials community. In that vein, I’m a co-organizer of this year’s Materials Innovation Plenary, “Innovation in Materials […]
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EWI Gets a Plug at the World Economic Forum
Hey, we are in the news again! This morning EWI received special mention at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in an important session on advanced manufacturing. In describing Ohio’s leading role in new manufacturing technologies, Governor John Kasich specifically named EWI as a leader in additive manufacturing, calling our capabilities “absolutely remarkable.” Additive […]
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EWI Named Top Ten Company on List of Ohio Innovators
I just heard that EWI was listed on COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST’s prestigious “Central Ohio Innovators” list in 2012. While this may not be a surprise to EWI associates and partners, its great recognition for the leading-edge work – including nine patents between 2006 and 2010 – developed by our small corps of engineers. COLUMBUS BUSINESS […]
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Deficit Growing, Candidates Politicing, and Everyone’s Calling Shotgun
I’m not sure if “politicing” is used appropriately as a verb (kind of like “efforting”), but it seems accurate for what is happening these days around the deficit. On the positive side, the media is continuing to publicize the deficit as the major issue for the candidates to address. But in this case, “address” is […]
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Cladding with Plasma Arc Welding (PAW)
Plasma arc welding (PAW) is very similar to gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). If you look at the schematic shown in Figure 1 you can see that the arc in PAW is created between a non-consumable tungsten electrode and is constricted by passing through an orifice. This provides a more columnar arc with a higher […]
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Fabrisonic’s Ultrasonic AM Technology featured in Modern Machine Shop Magazine
The June issue of Modern Machine Shop Magazine features Fabrisonic (an EWI spin-out) and its breakthrough ultrasonic additive manufacturing (AM) technology and machinery. The technology allows for high-frequency production of all sizes of highly complex metal parts, including parts made from dissimilar metals and containing embedded components. Amazing stuff. Read the full article at http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/high-frequency-production. If you’d like to learn more about […]
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Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing presentation at ASM Symposium
Below are highlights from Mark Norfolk‘s presentation on Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) a few days ago at the ASM Symposium at GE’s Global Research Center in NY. Mark is a senior project manager at EWI and the CEO of Fabrisonic, an EWI spinout. Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) is a novel new process that produces true metallurgical bonds with full density and […]
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