EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s fuel cell sector, currently among the leaders nationally, has the potential to deliver a powerful helping hand to the state’s economy if the fuel cell industry follows the anticipated growth path, according to a recent study conducted by the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (CCEA)…
New Year’s brings little to celebrate for CT fuel cell industry
(CT Mirror, 12/26/2016) – Washington – Congress dealt a key – and growing – Connecticut industry a blow by failing to extend a fuel cell tax break at the end of the year – an omission that could cost the state jobs. While larger wind and solar projects received extensions…
10 Interesting Manufacturing Facts
Here are some quick facts about the manufacturing industry that help show how important it is for the overall health of the economy via Manufacturing Talk Radio.
Hartford Business Journal 2016 Best of Business: Education
(Hartford Business Journal, 12/9/16) Earlier this month, The Hartford Business Journal put out their 2016 Best of Business Awards. Here are the winners for Education in Connecticut. Read more >
IEEE Computer Society Predicts the Future of Tech for 2017 and Next Five Years
(PR News Wire, 12/14/16) After grading itself on its 2016 vison (see news release here), IEEE Computer Society has plunged into technology predictions for 2017 and for the next five years by 2022. Read more >
The Future of 3D Printing
(PR News Wire, 12/13/16) Curious about the future of 3D printing? This report from Report Linker covers the commercially-significant existing technologies and promising emerging technologies in depth, and analyses both the current and future markets for 3D printing. Read more >
The Advanced Manufacturing Center assists Troy Industries
Check out our latest case study, where CCAT was tasked with assisting Troy Industries by using reverse engineering to generate a 3D model of selected trigger pack and buttstock product parts with very complex geometries by using structured light scanning and the Markforged 3D Printer. Read More >
Franklin Academy tours the AMC
Students from Franklin Academy in East Haddam, CT stopped by to take a tour of CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center today. Led by AMC Manager Wayne Sumple, the students learned about 3D printing with metals and plastics, machining parts, and even got first-hand experience as to how structured white light scanning…
Report: CT’s tech-driven economy a player nationally
(HBJ, 12/6/2016) — Innovation plays a critical role in Connecticut and its five Congressional districts, according to a new nationwide study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. ITIF, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank for science and technology policy, examined 20 indicators of the innovation-driven high-tech economy — both traditional economic…
Sherman students get into the science of making stuff
(Danbury Newstimes, 11/30/2016) – Patricia-Ann Corso’s sixth-graders watched in awe as a whirring 3-D printer slowly built a chess piece out of blue plastic. The 18 students had crowded into a 44-foot trailer filled with the printer and other machines that burned patterns into wood, counted ball bearings and measured a…