AMRC Factory 2050
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Check-in with NCC’s aerospace experts at the ATI Aerospace Innovation Showcase: High-rate Composites Manufacture taking place on Tuesday, 16 September 2025 in Sheffield:
- Mark Bowering, Chief Engineer for Civil Air Structures
- Matt Scott, Chief Technologist for Strategy & Integration, and HVMC Chair of Composites Technology Special Purpose Group
- Huw Davies, Technology Programme Manager
- Terri Shires, Advanced Technology Programme Lead – HRM Cap
- Lewis Woolford, Technology Programme Lead
As a long-term innovation partner to the global aerospace industry, our experts will be available to discuss how we’re advancing next-generation composite wing technologies and how we can help you deliver industrialised and certifiable solutions for future flight.
Engage with NCC’s on-ground experts to learn the latest about our High Rate Manufacture Capital Acquisition Project (HRMCap) capabilities for large structures, and customer-ready aerospace expertise from material characterisation to flying parts manufacturing.
About the event
The ATI Aerospace Innovation Showcase: High-rate Composites Manufacture is delivered by the ATI Hub in collaboration with the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, hosted at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s (AMRC) Factory 2050
This showcase presents UK-leading capabilities, bringing together established experts and emerging innovators from across the aerospace composite manufacture supply chain and adjacent sectors, with the objective to push forward UK composite capabilities for aerospace.
Expect to engage with innovative solution providers, aerospace industry leaders, the ATI and the HVM Catapult about the market opportunity, leading-edge innovation, buyer requirements and the evolving composites strategy.
Over the past ten years, UK industry and the government have invested over £800m to develop composite capability, technology and research infrastructure. Together, with a broad and proven supply chain, this puts the UK in a strong position to secure workshare on future platforms.
Published in March 2025, the ATI’s Market Spotlight: Growing UK composite capability identified that the UK aerospace sector could grow its market share in composites sixfold by 2050 through a targeted approach to technology differentiation and improving competitiveness. To maximise this growth potential in the face of increasing international competition and ambitious delivery targets for next generation single aisle platforms, the UK must strengthen its aerospace composite capability.
Informed by the strategy currently being developed with the ATI’s Composites Working Group, this Aerospace Innovation Showcase will present projects and technologies, and enable new collaborations, across two composite technology challenge themes:
- Challenge 1: High-Rate Industrial Systems
- Challenge 2: Advanced Tooling Capability