Creare history

Hypertherm, a global company manufacturing industrial cutting products and software, was founded in 1968 to advance and market technology first developed at Creare.

In 1970 the program received funds the Franciscan community to operate an outreach storefront and began the renovation of an abandoned building to be used for treatment and rehabilitation of individuals recovering from chemical dependence and other problems.

In 1973, the organization received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse through the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to implement a model community-based drug treatment program.

CREATE, Inc., formerly known as "Project Create," was incorporated in the State of New York in March 1974 under the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law to provide:

Creonics, founded in 1982, is now part of the Allen-Bradley division of Rockwell International.

Spectra, a manufacturer of high-speed ink jet print heads and ink deposition systems (now a subsidiary of Fujifilm Dimatix) was formed in 1984 using sophisticated deposition technology originally developed at Creare.

Creare’s longstanding expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) gave birth to a uniquely comprehensive suite of CFD software marketed by Fluent, a Creare spin-off company that was started in 1988 (now a part of ANSYS Inc.).

Mikros, founded in 1991, is a provider of precision micro-machining services using advanced electric discharge machining technology initially developed at Creare.

The answer is pretty obvious, since you are sitting here, today, and in 1995, this iteration of CREATE was established.

While Creare itself remains a small business, the family of independently-owned and operated companies that are part of this family now employ over 2000 people and generate annual revenues in excess of $470 million.

The CREATE Program was formally announced on June 16, 2003.

Creare’s Ariane Chepko (B.S. AAE 2006) was one of the alumnae featured in the “Women of Purdue AAE” series.