Interview with Ben Willis
Re:Build Manufacturing’s Director of Product Development, Ben Willis, spent last week representing us at the Shot Show Supplier Showcase held in Las Vegas, Nevada. This annual event is a space for suppliers in the hunting and outdoor industries to highlight their latest developments. We were there to showcase our highly automated thermoplastic manufacturing capabilities while also connecting with industry leaders and potential clients. While in attendance, Ben had the opportunity to participate in the Shot Show 2024 Radio Minute by giving a brief interview about what makes Re:Build Manufacturing stand out in the industry.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces a New Line of Advanced, Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Tubes and Profiles
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce its latest breakthrough product: a new line of continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) tubes and profiles, produced at Re:Build’s Oribi Composites facility in Denver, Colorado. Nearly all composite tubes and profiles available today utilize thermoset resin matrices to support the fiber reinforcement or use non-continuous fiber reinforcements. These materials, while light and stiff, are typically lower in toughness and durability, and are not recyclable. Re:Build’s newly developed production technology offers several key benefits for users including improved impact resistance, vibration dampening, corrosion resistance, high and low temperature resistance, durability, and recyclability. Ideal applications for these components include sporting goods shafts, aerospace and automotive tubes and tie rods, medical components, and robotic frames and arms.
Re:Build Manufacturing Launches a State-of-the-Art, U.S.-Made Solar CZ Puller to Support the Increasing Market Demand for Photovoltaics
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing, a leader in the design and production of custom automation and industrial products, advanced materials, and technology solutions, announces the launch of the RBM600 Solar CZ Puller designed for the manufacture of high-purity ingots used in the photovoltaic solar materials industry. This state-of-the-art equipment showcases Re:Build’s dedication to driving innovation, fostering American manufacturing, and delivering products that are designed and built in the U.S. and meet the highest standards of safety and performance. The RBM600 is a testament to Re:Build’s mission to reinvigorate American manufacturing. Every aspect of the RBM600’s development—from its inception, design, and fabrication to its final assembly— takes place domestically.
Exro Names Re:Build Manufacturing Its Exclusive Cell Driver™ Manufacturing Partner
Calgary, AB – Exro accelerates its energy storage business, naming Re:Build Manufacturing its exclusive manufacturing partner and establishing new channel partnership agreements. Exro announces US-based Re:Build Manufacturing is its exclusive manufacturing partner for Cell Driver™ Energy Storage, thereby outsourcing product assembly to an industry expert. The partnership with Re:Build Manufacturing provides Exro the ability to quickly scale to capture the significant opportunity in energy storage while removing all future capital expenditure and inventory working capital requirements associated with Cell Driver™ manufacturing from Exro’s balance sheet. Exro also announces new channel sales partnerships with PVCA, ProSolar, Shaw Solar, and High Point Electric, renewable energy and energy management integrators that cover customer networks in California, Colorado, Florida, the Caribbean, and regions within Canada. Cell Driver™ is on track for UL certification in early Q3 2023, to be followed immediately by start-of-series production with in-field pilots and deliveries.
Governor Josh Shapiro and Re:Build Manufacturing Announce $81 Million Investment
Pittsburgh, PA – Today, Governor Josh Shapiro joined leadership from Re:Build Manufacturing (Re:Build), the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC), and Pennsylvania leaders to announce an $81 million investment to create a major, innovation-focused manufacturing operation in the New Kensington Advanced Manufacturing Park that will create 300 high-quality jobs in Westmoreland County. A leader in bringing high-tech manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., Re:Build’s operations at the new regional headquarters in New Kensington will focus on state-of-the-art fabrication, manufacturing, and integration and assembly projects in high-growth, innovation-driven industries including: energy, life sciences, robotics, electric mobility, satellite communications, and aerospace. The project will create Re:Build’s first ground-up manufacturing facility in the U.S. here in Pennsylvania.
MIT Leaders for Global Operations announces new industry partnership with Re:Build Manufacturing
Cambridge, MA — The MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program welcomes Re:Build Manufacturing as its newest industry partner. This addition brings LGO’s partner company total to 24—17 of which are in the Fortune 500 or Global Fortune 500. MIT LGO collaborates with the MIT School of Engineering to deliver an interdisciplinary Engineering-MBA dual degree program. The two-year curriculum features internships at elite partner companies. Students develop leadership skills for the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, energy, high-tech, and global supply chain industries, among others. Re:Build Manufacturing integrates new technologies, managerial methods and capital into conventional manufacturing in medium-sized US manufacturing companies across industrial platforms in diversified growth markets with the goal of revitalizing the U.S. manufacturing base in areas that have been deindustrialized over the past 30 years. Re:Build currently employs over 800 people.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces the Acquisition of AppliedLogix
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of AppliedLogix, of Rochester, New York. This acquisition enables Re:Build to expand our engineering and development capabilities for firmware, software, and electrical engineering applications across a variety of industries. Founded in 2006, AppliedLogix is an engineering consulting firm that provides custom embedded system design expertise across a wide range of applications, including custom power conversion & control systems for alternative energy, high performance imaging systems, AI & machine learning, and automation. AppliedLogix’s core capabilities consist of FPGA programming, SoC development, advanced PCB design and layout, as well as EMC engineering and signal integrity analysis. AppliedLogix’s technical programming expertise and embedded design experience have made them an integral part of their customer’s engineering and design efforts.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces the Acquisition of Answer Engineering
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Denver, Colorado based Answer Engineering, significantly expanding Re:Build’s engineering and development capabilities in the aviation and aerospace industries. Founded in 2012, Answer Engineering is an aviation and aerospace engineering consulting firm providing design, development, and analysis services to customers across all major aerospace market segments, including commercial aviation, general aviation, defense, urban air mobility, space exploration, launch and communications systems. Answer has extensive experience in both manned and unmanned aircraft programs and has supported some of the most visible and successful programs in the aerospace industry. Answer offers nearly all disciplines in aerospace engineering including structures, mechanical systems, landing gear systems, aerodynamics, modifications, repairs, and serviceability.
Expanding Industrial Design Capabilities through the Acquisition of Tekna, Inc.
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tekna Solutions, Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI), significantly expanding Re:Build’s design, engineering, and manufacturing service offering as part of the Re:Build Total Production Solutions Group. Tekna (https://teknateam.com) is an ISO 13485, full-service product development firm and contract manufacturer. Originally founded in 1988, Tekna delivers on its Innovation to Realization™ strategy by offering customers a wide range of world-class services including research, strategy, design, branding, engineering, and manufacturing to create and deliver meaningful solutions. Now part of Re:Build, the company will be able to expand its reach in healthcare and other industries.
Re:Build Manufacturing Announces the Acquisition of Fikst
Framingham, MA – Re:Build Manufacturing is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fikst, significantly expanding Re:Build’s engineering, product development, and prototyping capabilities within its Engineering Services Group of companies. Fikst (https://www.fikst.com/) operates a consulting business in Woburn, MA focused on product development, mechanical engineering, and prototyping solutions for the biotechnology, medical, and industrial markets. Founded in 2005 by brothers Paul and Doug Sabin, Fikst has quickly grown to become a premier provider of concept-to-manufacture consultancy services and has cultivated an industry-wide reputation for its competency in mechanical engineering, micro- and milli-fluidics, and product development within burgeoning markets, such as gene therapy, diagnostics, and cellular therapy.