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News Release from: OEM Fabricators
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2006
Nano centre greets fabricator
OEM Fabricators, was named first tenant of the Chippewa Valley Technical College's new NanoRite Center by Gov Jim Doyle at the center's groundbreaking in Eau Claire.
OEM Fabricators, was named first tenant of the Chippewa Valley Technical College's new NanoRite Center by Gov Jim Doyle at the center's groundbreaking in Eau Claire The $4.9 million incubator at the CVTC Gateway campus is a public-private partnership and economic development initiative
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Anticipated to open in 2007, the 37,000 square-foot centre at will augment high-end microscopy and nanoscience laboratories that are currently in operation at the college.
The center will include instruction and expertise from faculties at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire along with development areas for microfabrication, which involves ultra-small machining that is integral to the manufacture of medical devices and other products.
"This new industry has visionary leaders that recognise the need to continually diversify and keep on the cutting edge," said Doyle.
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"OEM Fabricators is one of these visionaries, and it recognises the need to continually grow in Wisconsin, to capitalise on the educated work force in the state, and to diversify into the advance technologies of the future.
They believe in this vision so strongly that they have helped to fund NanoRite and will become its first major tenant.
Mark Tyler has committed his company to the future of manufacturing in Wisconsin.
He will partner with the Chippewa Valley Technical College to develop new products, while helping the college bring online the new microfabrication training for the region.
When NanoRite is ready to open, OEM Fabricators will be ready to launch an added dimension to their industry." S.
Mark Tyler, president of OEM, noted that the partnership is at first one of research, development and learning.
"Since our beginning 20 years ago, OEM has had big ideas and has worked on big products, and our products are used on six of seven continents," he said.
"We have learned that thinking very small may be even bigger than thinking big.
The strength, knowledge and resolve of the partners in NanoRite give OEM Fabricators the confidence to move forward in our collective journey into microfabrication and nanotechnology." Contributing $100,000 to the center, OEM Fabricators is among the first funding partners in the center, which also includes the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, the US Department of Commerce, 3M Corporation, 3M Foundation, X-Cel Energy, the William J.
and Gertrude R.
Casper Foundation, the City of Eau Claire, the CVTC Foundation, Eau Claire County, and Gateway Corp.
Other partners include the UW-Stout, UW-Eau Claire, Chippewa, Dunn, and Eau Claire economic development corporations, the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, and the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Network.
This year CVTC graduated its first cohort from its new nanoscience technology associate degree program; it is first of only two such programs in the United States.
"This groundbreaking today is symbolic of partnerships," said Bill Ihlenfeldt, president of CVTC.
"Today we begin the next chapter, and next spring we will begin the development of new industries and new products for existing industries as we help them to grow, expand and diversify the economy first in the advance technology triangle in this area, in the I-94 corridor and finally tying into the IQ corridor of Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, creating a research corridor that is recognized globally." Doyle echoed that notion: "We are dealing in a global economy, and we have to make sure that we are building strong, regional economies.
I am very pleased as we break ground today on a project that promises a very bright future for technology development here in Wisconsin.
To me what we are doing today is what Wisconsin's future is all about.
It's how you bring together our great educational institutions its how you support good entrepreneurs while looking for good opportunities with good ideas.
It's how government works as a strong partner with private business and it's how we do this with a shared vision.
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