Media advisory for event on Wednesday (Jan. 30)

FOR MEDIA PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY

What: Ribbon cutting and open house for the Manufacturing Design Laboratory, a research space with the latest equipment that will serve as a key component of the Indiana Manufacturing Institute. Reporters attending are asked to contact Chris Adam at Purdue Research Foundation, 765-588-3341, cladam@prf.org.

Where: Indiana Manufacturing Institute, 1105 Challenger Avenue, Suite 100, West Lafayette, IN 47906.

When: Tours and demonstrations begin at 2 p.m., Wednesday (Jan. 30). Remarks begin at 3 p.m.

Speakers include: Purdue President Mitch Daniels; Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger; Purdue College of Engineering Dean Mung Chiang; and Jan-Anders Mansson, a Purdue distinguished professor of chemical and materials engineering.