Facilities
Equipment + Expertise = Opportunity
After a decade of innovation, IACMI has discovered the “secret sauce” is pairing world-class facilities with the expertise to run them. For many small- to medium-size enterprises (SMEs), getting access to both can help jump start and grow their companies. Even the larger OEMs often prefer to collaborate R&D with other companies in these shared facilities and look to smaller companies for fresh ideas. Through strategic partnerships in Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and our home state of Tennessee, IACMI is helping turn great ideas into commercial successes.
Colorado is home to IACMI’s Wind Turbine Technology Area. Capitalizing on the long and productive history of collaboration between federal and state agencies and major wind industry Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), IACMI’s facility is developing, testing, and deploying transformational manufacturing methods, designs, and materials.
IACMI centers our Design, Modeling and Simulation (DMS) Area in Indiana. By quantifying cost-saving processes, materials, and best practices, the digital tools and technologies at the Purdue University facility are helping drive innovations to shorten the development cycle and decrease the cost of composites manufacturing.
U.S. transportation is transforming. The American automotive industry is moving at a rapid pace to meet consumer expectations for reliable performance, attractive design, sustainability, and digital features.
With a diversity of composites technology and a large number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) involved in the composites industry, Ohio is a central location for IACMI—The Composites Institute to support SMEs advancing toward commercialization of their innovations. It features significant activity in aerospace composites and is also home to our Compressed Gas Storage Area.
Tennessee’s strong manufacturing and advanced materials ecosystem helped bring about the creation of IACMI—The Composites Institute. In addition to hosting our headquarters, Tennessee is home to five facilities within the IACMI innovation environment network and serves as the hub for our Composite Materials and Process Technology Area.