Lilly Donates WITTMANN Two-Shot MicroPower 

Torrington, Conn., (April 25, 2024)— Medical giant Eli Lilly & Company has donated a WITTMANN Micro Molding Work Cell to the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  The work cell, which consists of a MicroPower molding machine and two-shot mold, robot, dryer, temperature control units, and feeders, will be used by students in the university’s Plastics Engineering program for research and development of micro-parts manufacturing.

A reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Saab Center on the UMass Lowell campus was held on Thursday, April 11.  Executives from Lilly, WITTMANN USA, and UMass Lowell faculty, students and administrators were on hand to celebrate.

As part of the collaboration between Wittmann and Lilly, WITTMANN took the machine back to its US headquarters in Torrington, CT and performed numerous upgrades to the machine.  This included adding new end-of-arm-tools, writing new software programs, starting up and training UMass Lowell operators on the use of the machine.
 

David Preusse, WITTMANN USA President, and Dr. Ho-Seon Jin, Lilly Senior Director-Engineering, both UMass Lowell alumni, spearheaded the project, as did Davide Masato, Assistant Professor of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell.  After the ceremonial ribbon-cutting, they all spoke to the attendees.

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