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Cincinnati Incorporated, Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaboration earns R&D 100 Award

Cincinnati Incorporated (CI) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) earned top technology product of the year in the process/prototyping category at the 2015 R&D 100 Awards & Technology Conference.

The award recognizes the companies’ Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system. The team also earned the R&D 2015 Editor’s Choice Award.

CI and ORNL partnered in 2014 to develop the large-scale additive manufacturing system capable of printing polymer components up to 10 times larger than currently producible, and at speeds 200 to 500 times faster than existing additive machines. The agreement aims to introduce significant new capabilities to the U.S. machine tool sector, which supplies manufacturing technology to a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, appliance, and robotics.