LIFT Announces Advanced Metallic Production and Processing Center Coming to Detroit in 2025

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), the U.S. Department of Defense-supported national advanced materials manufacturing innovation institute, operated by the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII), announced that it will introduce its new state-of-the-art Advanced Metallic Production and Processing Center (AMPP) in 2025 solving a critical gap in addressing advanced materials challenges across the U.S. industrial base.  

Located at LIFT’s Detroit headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility, the new center will deliver high quality metal powder, wire, and rod feedstocks across all alloy classes at a development scale to support the diverse breadth of additive manufacturing processes on the market today, curated by LIFT’s team of materials scientists.

When fully operational in early 2025, LIFT’s AMMP facility will offer:

• Low to medium material production volumes
• Accelerated material delivery and availability
• Toll processing
• Contract manufacturing
• Domestic production
• Operation through a non-profit, public-private partnership