Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., has upgraded its support of advanced manufacturing research at the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) in Prince George County, Virginia. With the addition of its latest equipment, CCAM has been named a Buehler Partner Center, one of several across the United States. Other Buehler Partner Centers include ASM International, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wright State University, Boston University, and Lehigh University.
Buehler was an early member of CCAM, and on this occasion has renewed its membership for another five years. In the past 12 months, the CCAM has added Cummins, Amsted Rail, HURCO, and Altria Group to its growing number of advanced manufacturing consortium members. This partnership makes available Buehler’s comprehensive line of material preparation and analysis equipment to the research conducted by all 36 CCAM members that come from industry, academia, and government.
“As a leading provider of scientific equipment and supplies, Buehler strives to deliver solutions our customers will value throughout quality control and research & development laboratories across industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defense, and Universities. We are pleased to add CCAM to our distinguished partner centers with a complete metallurgical labs available for our customers,” says Benjamin Mangrich, Buehler Americas Commercial Director.
“In addition to offering Buehler’s precision capabilities to our CCAM members, we are honored to have been chosen as an official Buehler Partner Center. We now have an intact laboratory stacked with Buehler equipment on par with the partnership Buehler has with Boston University’s College of Engineering,” says William Powers, CCAM President and CEO.
CCAM members include ABB Robotics, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Airbus, Altria Group, Arconic, Amsted Rail, Chromalloy, Cummins, Kyocera SGS Precision Tools, Newport News Shipbuilding, Oerlikon Metco, Rolls-Royce, Sandvik Coromant, Siemens, Buehler, Canon Virginia, CGTech, Cool Clean Technologies, EOS, GF Machining Solutions, Hermle Machine Co., HURCO, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Mechdyne, Mitutoyo, National Instruments, Paradigm Precision, Spatial Integrated Systems, NASA Langley Research Center, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, GENEDGE, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Tech.
