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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The winning consortium, led by EWI and headquartered in the Detroit-area includes the following members: 34 Companies: ABS; AEM; ALCOA Technology; Boeing; Comau; Easom Automation; EWI; Fabrisonic; Flash Bainite Steel; GE; Honda North American Services; Huys; Infinium; Inc.; ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The process will produce butanol and will also be able to produce ethanol The research team has a strong connection with Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies, LLC in this area of research. U of Kentucky). The critical barrier to wider deployment of electric vehicles is the high cost and low energy of today’s batteries.

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