Read the latest news from our Composites, Digital Engineering and Sustainability teams at the NCC. Announcing the launch of the Joule Challenge, Bridge of the Future and iCast projects and 5G-Encode industrial test bed, through to our involvement in the Quantum Data Centre of the Future and Digital Learning Factories programmes, we have lots of news to share with you.
A flagship £5m, 20-month programme, funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) through its Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) will set out a detailed roadmap for incorporating radically new composite-based components in the next-generation of offshore wind turbines.
5G-ENCODE, a pioneering project that aims to make the benefits of 5G a reality for UK manufacturers, announces that it has hosted the launch of its 5G network at the National Composites Centre (NCC).
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult has today launched the ‘Bridge of the future' programme to address some of the key challenges in the way that we design, build and maintain UK road bridges in a more sustainable way.
The £17M Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST) was officially launched at its new base in the Carriage Works in Swindon on 19th November. The project, led by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at Bath, is a collaboration between the Universities of Bath and Oxford, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s Sustainability Partnership (National Composites Centre, and Centre for Process Innovation) innovation experts at SETsquared, Local Enterprise Partnerships, investors and the companies that iCAST will be working with.
The National Composites Centre (NCC), in collaboration with Nexam Chemical, has successfully manufactured a composite using a high temperature resin, providing a solution to the challenge of using advanced materials in components that need to withstand extreme temperatures.
The National Composites Centre (NCC) has announced its participation in the £9m Quantum Data Centre of the Future project, which is led by Orca Computing. Funded by UKRI, Quantum Data Centre of the Future is one of 12 successful bids to receive a share of the £50m funding programme for UK quantum industrial projects from UKRI’s £170M Commercialising Quantum Technologies challenge.
The National Composites Centre (NCC) is offering SMEs in the West of England Combined Authority region the opportunity to develop their digital capability for free, as part of the Workforce for the Future programme.
The National Composites Centre (NCC) is launching the Composites Technology Forum for UK Defence, bringing together large industry primes, academia and SMEs to share knowledge, expertise and opportunities for future collaboration.
The National Composites Centre (NCC) is part of a programme that will see hundreds of working adults benefit from a free course that will help them to rapidly upskill or retrain, in partnership with the West of England Institute of Technology.
