LOVELAND — EWI Colorado, an applied research center that opened in Loveland earlier this year, will open its permanent facility at the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology Nov. 9.

EWI uses engineering and technology to develop, test and implement advanced manufacturing methods for a variety of industries. The nonprofit organization is sustained from contract fees paid by companies tapping into its services.

EWI, which also has centers in Columbus, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y., has been operating in a temporary space at RMCIT, 814 15th St. SW, since June while buildout and tenant finish of the new 14,000-square-foot space has occurred.

In addition to officially making the move to the permanent space on Nov. 9, EWI will hold an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. that evening to show off the facility to the public and those in the manufacturing industry. Registration for that event is free and available online.

EWI was lured to Loveland in part by a $6 million package of city and state incentives, with the hope locally that EWI’s presence will help attract companies to lease space at the 800,000-square-foot, five building RMCIT campus, a site that has been mostly idle in recent years since Agilent Technologies vacated the space.