First IAMA Winner Named

The jury for the inaugural International Additive Manufacturing Award (IAMA) has selected Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies Ltd. of the United Kingdom and Plano, Texas, as its winner. The award was presented on March 6, during a reception at The MFG Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The company will also receive a $20,000 cash prize and a media package valued at $80,000 to promote its winning innovation.

Hybrid Manufacturing’s submission was a hybrid kit that can be integrated into any CNC machine to enable metal deposition (via laser cladding), finishing and inspection of parts on a single machine. The hybrid methodology integrates directed energy deposition into multi-axis CNC machine, using a toolchanger to change between processes.

The IAMA is the result of a partnership between AMT–The Association For Manufacturing Technology and VDW–Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association). AMT and VDW, with media support from Gardner Business Media and VDI Nachrichten and sponsored by the European Machine Tool Association CECIMO, announced the IAMA at IMTS 2014.

The IAMA jury included international leaders from industry, academia, military, media and trade associations. It considered submissions from the United States and European Union from varied leaders in the additive field.

International Additive Manufacturing Award, visit additive-award.com.