Date: 2013-08-01

Timken and UA Join Forces to Accelerate Commercialization of Specialized Research

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Akron and The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) today announced a novel open-innovation agreement to accelerate technology development. The organizations plan to combine their expertise in materials and surface engineering at newly established laboratories in the UA College of Engineering.

According to the Aug. 24 agreement, Timken will contribute resources to establish the Timken Engineered Surfaces Laboratory, which will be located in a new facility currently under construction on the UA campus at the intersection of Wolf Ledges Parkway and Carroll Street. Timken's Gary L. Doll, Ph.D., chief technologist in tribology and next-generation materials, will lead the lab as the newly-established Timken Endowed Chair in Engineered Surfaces beginning Sept. 1.

Douglas H. Smith, Timken's senior vice president of technology and quality, hails the agreement as a new model of open innovation. "Not only is UA Ohio's fastest growing college of engineering, it is a leading developer of materials for vital, commercially viable uses," says Smith. "Matching some of Timken's leading scientists and capabilities with UA's renowned faculty and gifted postdoctoral researchers and students will further the development and commercialization of advanced materials, engineered surfaces, and performance coatings for the world's most demanding applications."

UA President Luis M. Proenza also praises the arrangement, adding that it defines The Akron Model, the University's blueprint for successful regional development and job creation and a new gold standard for university performance.

"The UA-Timken collaboration demonstrates what The Akron Model truly is," says Proenza. "Universities must be engaged with the larger community and its regional economies to build a very synergistic and reciprocal relationship with each other

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