Alfred University/CACT-supported business venture featured in Ceramic and Glass Manufacturing newsletter

A story about a fledgling business venture at the IncubatorWorks facility in Alfred, supported by Alfred University and its Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology, is featured in the current issue of the Ceramic and Glass Manufacturing newsletter.

The newsletter is published quarterly by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). The April 2021 issue includes a story about Replacement Tiles Solutions, a start-up business launched by William Carty, emeritus professor of ceramic engineering. The business is located at the IncubatorWorks, a state-of-the-art incubator offering services and facilities to foster growth of entrepreneurial businesses in ceramics, glass, advanced materials, and related technology-based industries.

Replacement Tiles Solutions will commercialize a new additive manufacturing-based system for the terra cotta industry. Additive manufacturing is the technology of three-dimensional printing, in which layers of a material are printed using computer-aided design technology, and then combined to create a 3-D object. Replacement Tiles Solutions is developing innovative solutions to 3-D scan terra cotta roof tiles and other terra cotta elements in order to produce high-resolution molds used to make precise duplicates of the material needing replacement.