Savannah’s Herty Advanced Materials Development Center, an applied research center of Georgia Southern University, has been named by the U.S. Department of Energy to be a founding member of the newly created Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The institute will work to develop better composite materials and technologies for rapid deployment within the automotive, wind turbine and compressed gas storage industries.

Partners in the new institute, created under the auspices of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, include the DOE and a consortium of 122 companies, nonprofits and universities that will invest more than $250 million to advance the development of low-cost, high-performance composites.

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