{"id":4208,"date":"2017-10-10T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&p=4208"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:18","slug":"poweramerica-celebrates-national-manufacturing-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-celebrates-national-manufacturing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Celebrates National Manufacturing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
From L to R, John Nicholson (NCDEQ), Jason Massey (industrial.io), Dr. Raoul Farer (Freudenberg Performance Materials), Dr. Dave Grider (Wolfspeed).<\/p><\/div>\n
PowerAmerica and the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) joined together Thursday, Oct. 5 to host a National Manufacturing Day \u201cSmart Speaker Series\u201d at the PowerAmerica offices in Raleigh.<\/p>\n
The panel featured John Nicholson, Chief Deputy Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ); as well as industry representatives Jason Massey of\u00a0industrial.io<\/a>, Raoul Farer of Freudenberg Performance Materials, and Dave Grider from Wolfspeed \u2013 a Cree Company.\u00a0 They spoke to a crowd of about 50 people.\u00a0 Moderating the panel was Nick Justice, Executive Director of PowerAmerica.<\/p>\n The combination of state government and representation from the advanced manufacturing industry made for an interesting and varied discussion. Collaboration was a key topic, as NCDEQ expressed a desire to forge stronger relationships with regional cleantech startups and the State Energy Office.<\/p>\n Another topic of discussion centered around the fact that many advanced manufacturing technologies (such as electric vehicles) are at a tipping point of being adopted on a wider scale. Dave Grider of Wolfspeed gave the example of silicon carbide being on the verge of rapidly replacing silicon in power electronics products.<\/p>\n All in all, it was a fantastic National Manufacturing Day event highlighting exciting industry advances, particularly those surrounding the theme of energy efficiency.<\/p>\n