NIST RENEWS AWARD FOR IMPROVED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES TO EXTRUDE HONE, FORD, GM

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that it will renew a multiyear research award under the Advanced Technology Program to a joint venture by Extrude Hone Corp. (Irwin, Pa.), Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.) and General Motors Corp. (Pontiac, Mich.) to develop a finishing technique in which an abrasive liquid fine tunes the hollow flow passages and combustion cavities in automotive engines for higher efficiency engines that consume less fuel while emitting less pollutants.

The NIST award renewal is for $1,482,099. The four-year project, begun in 1995, is projected to receive a total of approximately $3,909,000 in ATP funding, matched by approximately $4,024,000 in industry funding. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Lincoln, Neb.) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.) are also partners in the project.

Advanced Technology Program awards are designed to help industry pursue risky, challenging technologies that have the potential for a big pay-off for the nation's economy. ATP projects focus on enabling technologies that will create opportunities for new, world-class products, services and industrial processes, benefiting not just the ATP participants but other companies and industries--and ultimately consumers and taxpayers. The ATP's cost-shared funding enables industry to pursue promising technologies that otherwise would be ignored or developed too slowly to compete in rapidly changing world markets.

Detailed information on this project, Flow-Control Machining, is provided in the fact sheet.

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