Youngstown Business Incubator to hold advanced manufacturing expo
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — The Youngstown Business Incubator is ready to show the Youngstown area and northeast Ohio what it can do for entrepreneurs and manufacturers.
It's holding an Advanced Manufacturing User Expo (AMUX) on May 20. The AMUX will attract area manufacturers to help them learn about advanced manufacturing. It's going to focus on how that can help end-users change the way they do business.
'And this to be an interactive conference where they can ask questions, figure out how to adopt it, where the most applicable applications are. Through a lot of the grants, we are offering facility walkthroughs, so come in and meet some of those people that are doing this work, and you know, see what opportunities are available for you to bring the technology in-house,' said Stephanie Gaffney, vice president of Advanced Manufacturing.
The expo is May 20, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Eastwood Event Centre in Niles. Tickets can be purchased online.
'Having this event is gonna be important because it's gonna continue to remind people, what's the purpose of having this type of technology and the resources that are available to you here now in the Valley,' said Zac Divencenzo, co-founder and president of Juggerbot 3D.
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