RTI Joins CCAM

The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM; Disputanta, VA), a research consortium that brings together world-class manufacturers, Virginia’s top universities, and the NASA Langley Research Center, announced that RTI International Metals, Inc. (RTI; Pittsburgh, PA) has become the newest member to join the industry, academic and government consortium.

As a supplier to the global aerospace, defense, energy and medical device industries, RTI delivers vertically integrated solutions, which include a full range of titanium mill products and precision engineered assemblies and sub-assemblies across the entire supply chain. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, RTI offers a full complement of titanium mill products, extruded shapes, formed and 3D-printed parts, as well as machined components. The company’s products fly on the most modern airliners, help defend troops, assist in retrieving oil and gas from ocean depths, and sustain life in operating rooms around the world.

“Multidisciplinary efforts that leverage industry, academia, and government resources and expertise are key to solving the manufacturing industry’s most challenging problems. RTI is pleased to join the CCAM network of partners working to develop new products, services and solutions that meet the needs of the most demanding applications. We bring a long history of innovation in metals fabrication and component production, and we look forward to collaborating with our peer members,” said Kate J. Jackson, the chief technology officer at RTI.

Joseph F. Moody, the president and executive director of CCAM, said, “As an innovator in the field of titanium and specialty metals research and manufacturing, their vision and thought leadership will benefit our members and drive collaborative new research and manufacturing developments.”

As a Principal Industry Member, RTI International Metals will participate in generic research at CCAM’s state-of-the-art facility in Prince George County, VA. The consortium now numbers 28 members, including Aerojet Rocketdyne, Airbus, Alcoa, Canon Virginia Inc., Chromalloy, Newport News Shipbuilding, Oerlikon Metco, Rolls-Royce, Sandvik Coromant, Siemens, Blaser Swisslube, EOS, Hermle Machine Co., Mitutoyo, Paradigm Precision, Buehler, Cool Clean Technologies, GF Machining Solutions, Mechdyne, National Instruments, RTI International Metals, Inc., Spatial Integrated Systems (SIS),  and the NASA Langley Research Center. Academic partners are the Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Tech.

CCAM is based at a 62,000 sq ft facility that has computational and engineering research labs, high bay production space and commercial scale equipment, and specialized equipment and tooling for research in surface engineering, manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing, machining technologies, composite materials processing, and welding and joining.

Leveraging the combined strengths and capabilities from CCAM and the network of university, industry, and government partners, CCAM bridges the gap between research and commercialization, accelerating new developments to market.

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