YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A portion of East Federal Street in downtown was closed off Friday morning – not for construction – but to accommodate a large boom crane as it hoisted a massive 3D printer into place at Eastern Gateway Community College.
The printer, a Tradesman Series P3-44 manufactured at Juggerbot 3D in Youngstown, will serve as the core of EGCC’s new Additive Innovation Center, said Amelia Taggart, EGCC’s director of workforce.
“Over the next two months, we’ll be finishing the room,” Taggart said. The next step is to drop in the electrical infrastructure and then fill the space with approximately a dozen additional desktop 3D printers, desks and other fixtures.
EGCC expects the center, housed in a space at the northwest corner of its building at East Federal and Champion streets, to be completed by the end of the year, Taggart said.
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