Farmington Company Gets $100,000 State Grant

FARMINGTON, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont, the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, and the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Wednesday announced that six manufacturers in Connecticut — including a Farmington company — will be receiving a total of $600,000 in grants to facilitate the adoption of additive manufacturing in their operations.

Under the Additive Manufacturing Adoption Program, each company will receive a $100,000 matching grant to be leveraged with an equal or greater amount of company funding.

The grant recipients are:

• Accurate Lock and Hardware Co., LLC (Stamford)
• Beacon Industries, Inc. (Newington)
• Burke Aerospace (Farmington)
• Okay Industries, Inc. (New Britain)
• PTA Plastics (Oxford)
• Westminster Tool, Inc. (Plainfield)

"Connecticut is the Silicon Valley of advanced manufacturing, plain and simple," Lamont said. "These grants will help our brilliant manufacturers across the state continue to innovate, building bigger, faster, and more complex machines that drive our state, country, and world further into the 21st century."

Additive manufacturing is rapidly changing the way companies design and manufacture products, Lamont said.

"Components that could not be produced just a few years ago can now be made to high standards using a wide variety of plastics and metals," he said. "When implemented properly, additive manufacturing can significantly reduce material waste, lead time, the amount of inventory being held, and the quantity of distinct parts needed for an assembly."