Advanced Manufacturing
Building Breakthroughs
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, enriching a diverse skill set that includes the most advanced technologies. East Tennessee has one of five federally designated innovation hubs focused on advanced manufacturing, and, is home to:
The Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
The Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing Sectors
Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
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 (CFTF)
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.
The Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (IAMM)
The institute’s HQ is located in a 140,000-square-foot mixed-use facility on the Research Park at Cherokee Farm, representing one of the world’s premier centers for advanced materials research with: a highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and excellent training resources.
