The United States announces the establishment of the Fiber and Fabric Manufacturing Innovation Agency
[According to a report on the White House website on April 1, 2016] The U.S. Secretary of Defense announced the establishment of the eighth manufacturing innovation agency in the U.S. National Manufacturing Innovation Network – the Revolutionary Fiber and Fabric Manufacturing Innovation Agency, providing more than $300 million in Public-private partnership funding to develop future-proof fibers and fabrics to help accelerate the recovery of U.S. textile manufacturing. The agency is led by the Department of Defense and managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and includes 89 members from industry, academia and non-profit organizations.
The Revolutionary Fiber and Fabric Manufacturing Innovation Facility, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will receive more than $75 million from the federal government and nearly $250 million in non-federal investments to support fiber and fabric innovations with differentiated properties, including incredible lightweight and fire resistance, extraordinary strength and contains electronic sensors. These technical textiles have applications ranging from creating suits for firefighters that are impervious to the heat of flames, to replicating the sensing capabilities of a smartwatch into a piece of lightweight fiber, or when a wounded warrior needs an antibacterial dressing. Easily removed during processing.
The U.S. textile industry increased employment for the first time in ten years, with shipments increasing by 14% from 2009 to 2015, and global exports growing by 39%. After a decade of recession in the new century, the U.S. manufacturing industry as a whole has added 900,000 jobs since February 2010. The Revolutionary Fiber and Fabric Manufacturing Innovation Facility will build on this foundation to lay the foundation for future global leadership and innovation in the production of complex fiber and fabric technologies for the U.S. textile manufacturing industry.
[About the Revolutionary Fiber and Fabric Manufacturing Innovation Institute] To lead this new institute, MIT joined 89 partners to establish the Advanced Functional Fibers of America (AFFOA) Alliance in Cambridge to help the United States be at the forefront of fiber science, and ensuring that modern fibers with superior properties are produced in the United States. The alliance ultimately won the bid and the new agency will be based on it.
The new organization will leverage the Northwest’s community of technical textile manufacturing entrepreneurs and innovators, combined with the strength of the national manufacturing network, to strengthen the national innovation ecosystem in fiber and fabric manufacturing and position the United States in critical technology areas. Stay in a leadership position.
The new facility will bring together non-traditional partners to integrate fibers and yarns with integrated circuits, LEDs, solar cells and other devices with advanced materials to create things that can see, hear, feel, communicate, store energy and regulate temperature. , monitor health, change colors and other functions of fibers and fabrics. For example, the agency will pair audio equipment maker Bose, computer chip maker Intel and nanofiber maker FibeRio with more common textile manufacturers and users such as Warwick Milling, Buhler Yarn and New Balance. Innovation.
The new agency will work to commercialize innovations developed in member labs at universities (MIT, UMass Amherst, Cornell, etc.) while forming partnerships with local workforce organizations to train workers how to work in the U.S. technology to create these. The agency will also accelerate technology transfer to create defense and commercial applications, such as shelters that embed power generation and storage capabilities in fibers, ultra-efficient, energy-saving vehicle filters, and uniforms that can regulate temperature, detect threats, and sense chemicals. or threats such as radioactive elements to warn warfighters or first responders. The new agency’s headquarters will house a prototyping facility to help startups pilot their first products and scale new technologies into full production, ensuring that American-invented textile technologies are manufactured in the United States.
The winning team includes 52 industry members and nonprofit organizations, as well as 37 additional partners in 28 states. The 52 companies and non-profit organizations include FLIR, Blue Water Defense, Nanocomp Technologies, MiniFIBERS, FibeRio, Buhler Yarn, Electronic Textiles, RTI International, Warwick Milling, Intel, SAP, Bose , Nike, New Balance, Solar Energy Alliance, Vartest Labs, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, National Vocational Aptitude Testing Center, etc. (Liu Yawei, China Aviation Industry Development Research Center)
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