The International Composites Summit is the UK's only exhibition focused solely on the global composites market. Taking place at the ILEC Conference Centre in London on 21-22 September, the event brings together leading industry professionals to address the worldwide opportunities for sales and growth within the composites sector, needed to help our journey to net zero.
Come and see us at Stand C2, which we're hosting, with our fellow High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland and WMG. We will be presenting throughout the Summit:
NCC engineers have completed a European first by manufacturing Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) using Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) technology, paving the way for the high-temperature capabilities of these materials to be unlocked within engines – making them more efficient and reducing CO₂ emissions.
The project – completed as part of the NCC’s Core Research programme, and supported by Rolls-Royce, Reaction Engines, MBDA and 3M – has demonstrated that a novel oxide-based ceramic tow-preg material from 3M can be used in automated deposition.
The NCC has launched a three-year innovation programme that will see a team of composites specialists refine and scale the industrial processes needed to establish a commercial market for reclaimed continuous carbon fibre.
NCC, B&M Longworth and Cygnet Texkimp successfully reclaimed continuous carbon fibres from a whole pressure vessel and re-used them to manufacture a new pressure vessel. This is the first time this process has been achieved in the UK.
The pressing need to develop sustainable ways of using advanced materials is at the heart of the projects selected for the National Composite Centre’s Core Research programme for 2022/23.
We can help you to reduce your product's embodied carbon footprint. Using composites, the NCC is working towards net zero - a future that is only possible with the use of sustainable composite materials.
Composites will play a crucial role in providing solutions in hydrogen innovation. helping us to decarbonise high-energy transportation and industry needs, so we can meet net zero emission targets and increase energy security.
Composites already play an important role in driving decarbonisation. But there is more we can do. We are acting now to build a future using sustainable composites.
Composites enable our everyday lives – in transport, energy, healthcare, defence, communications and leisure. Their unique properties help us to design and make better products with less waste that last longer, helping us to address urgent societal challenges, such as sustainability and net-zero. We are the world-leading innovation centre for composites.
Get in touch today and find out how our expert composites specialists our state-of the-art technology testbed can help you solve your challenges.
