Global Carbon Materials Leader Partners with Penn State, Establishes R&D Center at Innovation Park
Morgan Advanced Materials establishes first Carbon Science Center of Excellence in U.S.
Spurs 30,000 sq. ft. building project; Center to employ high-level researchers in early stages
State College, Pennsylvania – On Tuesday, July 12 at the Penn State Conference Center Hotel during CARBON 2016—the World Conference on Carbon, Morgan Advanced Materials, a UK-based global leader in engineered carbon and ceramic materials, announced a precedent-setting industrial partnership with Penn State to establish a local research and development center in Innovation Park at Penn State. The Carbon Science Center of Excellence (COE) aims to drive global developments in the field of carbon research around Morgan’s core competencies, materials and application engineering. This will be Morgan’s third center of excellence, its first in North America, with the company’s other COE’s located in the UK.