Seco Tools Joins OMIC

The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center Research and Development (OMIC R&D; Scappoose, OR) continues to grow their membership with the recent addition of global cutting tools manufacturer Seco Tools, LLC (Troy, MI). With a total of 17 manufacturing partners and three Oregon public universities, this R&D facility continues to build a world-class operation to develop advanced metals manufacturing technologies through its research and development activities.

“We welcome Seco Tools to our family as our newest member company,” said Matt Carter, the chair of the OMIC R&D board of governors. OMIC R&D is the fifteenth research center established with Boeing leadership worldwide, and the first that Boeing has sponsored in the United States. Their mission is to bring together manufacturers and higher education in an innovation environment to solve challenges off-production-line for advanced manufacturers. 

“We’re excited and proud to part of Boeing’s first sponsored research center in the United States,” noted Dave Todd, the Western zone and aerospace manager for Seco Tools. “Being associated with OMIC R&D in an environment where stakeholders from industry and academia collaborate side-by-side, driving step change technology, creating energy which benefits the state of Oregon and associated members. Additionally, by supporting local engineering talent and competence development in Oregon and the Northwest, we will be looking into possible internships resulting from this collaboration.”

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